In this paper a new Query Performance Prediction method is introduced. This method is based on the hypothesis that different score distributions appear for ‘hard’ and ‘easy’ queries. Following we propose a set of measures which try to capture the differences between both types of distributions, focusing on the dispersion degree among the scores. We have applied some variants of the classic stan...

Twenty ten-minute oral presentations made by Swedish students speaking English have been analyzed with respect to the standard deviation of F0 over long stretches of speech. Values have been normalized by division with the mean. Results show a strong correlation between proficiency in English and pitch variation for male speakers but not for females. The results also identify monotone and disfl...

For a detailed visibility of an image, since only the global enhancement is not sufficient, local contrast enhancement plays a great role. One of the successful locally adaptive image contrast enhancement methods is by using Local Standard Deviation (LSD). The contrast enhancement using LSD is successfully used in many applications like in medical images, real time images, surveillance applicat...

We show that standard deviation σ satisfies the Leibniz inequality σ(fg) ≤ σ(f)‖g‖ + ‖f‖σ(g) for bounded functions f, g on a probability space, where the norm is the supremum norm. A related inequality that we refer to as “strong” is also shown to hold. We show that these in fact hold also for noncommutative probability spaces. We extend this to the case of matricial seminorms on a unital C*-al...

69 ABSTRACT PURPOSE: To report the incidence of anisocoria after unilateral excimer laser photorefractive kera-tectomy (PRK) for myopia and subsequent cortico-steroid therapy in a retrospective and prospective study and to explore possible etiologies. METHODS: The horizontal pupil diameter was determined in 6 patients (6 eyes) at 21.8 ± 12.6 months after unilateral wide-field excimer laser PRK ...