Previous studies have reported that semantic richness facilitates visual word recognition (see, e.g., Buchanan, Westbury, & Burgess, 2001; Pexman, Holyk, & Monfils, 2003). We compared three semantic richness measures--number of semantic neighbors (NSN), the number of words appearing in similar lexical contexts; number of features (NF), the number of features listed for a word's referent; and co...

The articulatory range of a speaker has previously been estimated by the shape formed by first and second formant measurements of produced vowels. In a majority of the currently available metrics, formant frequency measurements are reduced to a single estimate for a condition, which has adverse consequences for subsequent statistical testing. Other metrics provide estimates of size of vowel art...

In this paper, a decoding method incorporating word-level conndence measures for improved speech recognition is presented. At rst, we focus on the estimation of conndence measures from the word graph and evaluate them in word graph rescoring (2nd-pass in 2-pass search system). Next, we propose the lexical tree search (1st-pass in 2-pass search system) incorporating the word-level conndence meas...

In this paper, we investigate two different models for transitions of neutrinos and how they are related to each other. The two models are: neutrino oscillations and neutrino decoherence. Neutrino oscillation models have been the standard description for neutrino transitions so far and still are. Neutrino decoherence models, on the other hand, have recently been discussed by several authors [1–...

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In this paper we estimate the effect of income and wage rates on the labor supply of men and women, ages 20-24. Economic theory predicts a positive substitution effect and; providing leisure is a normal good, a negative income effect. In general, we do find such effects empirically. The magnitude of the results depends very heavily on whether or not we control for the young person's school stat...

We present the results of a new evaluation of the running fine structure constant α at the scale of the Z mass in which the role of the e+e− annihilation input data needed in this evaluation is minimized. This is achieved by reducing the weight function M2 Z/(s(M 2 Z − s)) in the dispersion integral over the e+e− annihilation data by subtracting a polynomial function from the weight function wh...

I estimate models of endogenous social interactions in body weight at the county and state levels. The results show that dispersion in body weight across time and space in the U.S. is not clearly excessive, and that much of this variation can be attributed to observable individual and regional characteristics. Models exploiting variants of methods proposed by Glaeser et al. (2003), fixed effect...

The one-hole spectral weight for two chains and two dimensional lattices is studied numerically using a new method of analysis of the spectral function within the Lanczos iteration scheme: the Lanczos spectra decoding method. This technique is applied to the t−Jz model for Jz → 0, directly in the infinite size lattice. By a careful investigation of the first 13 Lanczos steps and the first 26 on...