This paper did a survey on 162 college students, with an aim to find out the role of consumers’ personality in their trust in the website as far as the online word-of-mouth is concerned. All the data collected are analyzed by SPSS 15.0 and LISREL. It shows that there is a significant difference between the introverted consumers and the extroverted consumers viewing their attitude towards online...

This is an empirical study of the peripheral vowels of four languages, Hindi, Punjabi, Thai and Korean in terms of two parameters, namely F0 variation, and acoustic space calculated by using two lower formants, F1 and F2. We examine all peripheral vowels (with level tone in case of Thai and Punjabi) to find out the correlation between the pitch of voice, a laryngeal phenomenon and the resonance...

OBJECTIVE To compare costs of diagnosis and annual treatment of osteoporosis and hip fracture between the Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación (INR) and the protocol used by the Seguro Popular de Salud (SPSS). METHODS Direct costs gathered in a prospective study with real cases at the INR are presented, and then this data is re-analyzed with the methodology and protocol for the SPSS to estima...

THIS THIRD edition is detailed and introduces the reader to the majority of statistical techniques required to analyse data sets. It is structured around the discussion of descriptive data first, which is always a good principle. Step by step the student is shown how to consider the findings within his or her data.

Acoustic models based on long short-term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTM-RNNs) were applied to statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) and showed significant improvements in naturalness and latency over those based on hidden Markov models (HMMs). This paper describes further optimizations of LSTM-RNN-based SPSS for deployment on mobile devices; weight quantization, multi-frame inf...