In 2010 and 2011, Republicans and Democrats proposed mandating clean power generation in the electricity sector1–3. To evaluate public support for a national clean energy standard (NCES), we conducted a nationally representative survey that included randomized treatments on the sources of eligible power generation and programme costs. We find that the average US citizen is willing to pay US$162...

In this paper, we continue our previous work on nonlinear feature compensation of distortions in clean and telephone speech recognition systems. We have shown that Bidirectional Neural Network (Bidi-NN) can compensate nonlinearly-distorted components of feature vectors. In this study, we present a new effort to improve recognition accuracy on clean and telephone speech data by employing a two-s...