recommendations (3). In the early periods of an outbreak, when infection is not widespread, a “proactive school closure plan” will be put into effect; school closure for 5–7 days will be implemented as soon as the fi rst infection is detected in a school. If the outbreak is already spreading through the community, “reactive school closure” is considered suffi cient. This closure has been perfor...

Recently, the need of the geologic information has been rising in many fields such as environmental geology, disaster mitigation, and urban geological applications. For these fields, it is effective to provide geologic information as a three dimensional(3-D) model that can be generated and visualized in general purpose GIS software. The present work aims at introducing a basic theory, implement...

This paper describes a language/accent verification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The two-stage system is designed to be used as a pre-processing module for the Portuguese Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system developed at INESC-ID. As the ASR system is applied everyday to transcribe the evening news from a Portuguese ...

In this study, we aim to automatically score the spoken responses from an international English assessment targeted to non-native English-speaking children aged 8 years and above. In contrast to most previous studies focusing on scoring of adult non-native English speech, we explored automated scoring of child language assessment. We developed automated scoring models based on a large set of fe...

In this research, a high-temperature Rankin cycle (HTRC) with two-stage pumping is presented and investigated. In this cycle, two different pressures and mass flow rates in the HTRC result in two advantages. First, the possibility of direct recovery from the engine block by working fluid of water, which is a low quality waste heat source, is created in a HTRC. Secondly, by doing this, the mean ...

a typical iranian carbonate matrix block surrounded by an open fracture was modeled in order to understand the fracture-matrix interaction and realize how to model the interaction best. the modeling was carried out by using a fine-scaled eclipse model in the single porosity mode (the fractures were explicitly modeled). the model was extended to a stack of 6 matrix blocks to understand block-to-...