This paper discusses how to build a system that can engage in a mixed-initiative human-machine spoken dialogue in which system utterances sometimes overlap with user utterances and vice versa. In the method, a module that incrementally understands user utterances and another module that incrementally generates system utterances work in parallel, and the timing of taking and releasing the dialog...

In this Data in Brief paper, a central composite experimental design was planned to collect the surface roughness of an end milling operation of AISI 1045 steel. The surface roughness values are supposed to suffer some kind of variation due to the action of several factors. The main objective here was to present a multivariate experimental design and data collection including control factors, n...

In 1889, George Paxton Young, the University of Toronto's philosophy professor, passed away suddenly while in the midst of a public debate over the merits of hiring Canadians in preference to American and British applicants for faculty positions. As a result, the process of replacing Young turned into a continuation of that argument, becoming quite vociferous and involving the popular press and...

The route to chaos as the pump power is raised in the Lorenz-like 15 N H 3 laser is studied using transients and compared with the route which is expected in the Lorenz Haken equations. The differences between the routes to chaos, as normally displayed by the experimental system and the Lorenz Haken equations, is described in terms of the bifurcations experienced in each system. It is also show...

The choice of study design for guideline implementation studies will determine the confidence with which the observed effects can be attributed to the interventions under study. In general, cluster randomized trials, of which there are different types, provide the most robust design. However, the use of these designs has implications for the power, conduct and analysis of studies. Wherever poss...

The phenomenon of bullying has multidimensional character: it involves young people above all, but it is amplified by hush and passivity of the adults. Main objective of our research is to explore the several factors of this phenomenon, in order to identify prevention strategies and to increase the awareness among scholastic authorities.