Automatic speech recognition is used to assess spoken English learner pronunciation based on the authentic intelligibility of the learners’ spoken responses determined from deep neural network (DNN) model predictions of transcription correctness. Using numeric features produced by PocketSphinx alignment mode and many recognition passes searching for the substitution and deletion of each expecte...

We present SingaKids-Mandarin, a speech corpus of 255 Singaporean children aged 7 to 12 reading Mandarin Chinese, for a total of 125 hours of data (75 hours of speech) and 79,843 utterances. This corpus is phonetically balanced and detailed in human annotations, including phonetic transcriptions, lexical tone markings, and proficiency scoring at the utterance level. The reading scripts span a d...

Caledonian United Service Club, Edinburgh, on the evening of Friday, May 28th, Sir Alexander Christison,#ar?.,the senior member of the service, presided, and the following officers were present: Surgeon-Generals G. Bidie, C.l.is.; P. S. Turnbull, K.H.S.; D. Sinclair, c.s.l ; and G. W. R. Hay; Colonels W. P. Warburton, C.S.I.; and A. Stephen ; Brigade-Surgeons G. G. Maclaren, J. Robb and J. Arno...

The existing ~iiethods to ext,ract optical flow nieasure the distance t,hat. each pixel moves between a pair of successive image frames. I t is however difficult to extract accurat,e opt.ica1 flow when the niot,ion in the iniage is very large or small. In order to deal wit,li t.llis probleni. we propose temporally etralunted optical flour, \vllicli me con1put.e by measuring the tinie required f...

Each year in Northern Ireland (NI) approximately 40 children under 16 years of age die and almost 4000 are admitted to hospital from injuries sustained in accidents. Northern Ireland has a higher child population than the rest of the UK with 24% of its population aged under 14 years. The population is also more disadvantaged in socioeconomic terms with average annual household income 6% less th...

We describe a novel medium, a captopril/thiophenol (Capt/TP) mixed self-assembled monolayer (SAM) formed on gold, for selectively pre-concentrating serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT). The 5-HT molecules were shown to be selectively captured via formation of a strong complex, providing anodic stripping currents upon anodic scan or drastic increases in charge-transfer resistances for a redox p...

A new method based on complex networks is proposed for color-texture analysis. The proposal consists on modeling the image as a multilayer complex network where each color channel is a layer, and each pixel (in each color channel) is represented as a network vertex. The network dynamic evolution is accessed using a set of modeling parameters (radii and thresholds), and new characterization tech...

Churchill, Surgn.-Col. A. F., m.d., a.m.s., is brought on the Admtve. Medl. Staff of the Army, vice Surgn -Col. E. C. Markey, c B., who has reverted to the home establishment. Dated 22nd May 1895. Gallwey, Bde.-Surgn.-Lieut.-Col. M. M., M.D., A.M.S., to the Admtve. Medl. Staff of the Army, with the tempy. rank of Surgn -Col., vice Surgn.-Maj.-Genl A. A. Gore, M.D., appointed P. M. O., H. M.'s F...

The ‘intrinsic’ prohabilit,v for capt,ure of nurleons is studied for nurlei which exhibit collective vibrations or rotations in addition to an underlying shell structure of independent, nucleon orbits. Such probabilities or reduced widths for lowlying nuclear levels can be measured in ‘direct’ nuclear reactions; the present discussion is formulated chiefly in terms of deuteron stripping. Variou...