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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"distinctive features"”.
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The use of distinctive features for automatic speech recognition
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1991.
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Perceived features and similarity of images: An investigation into their relationships and a test of Tversky's contrast model.
… systems which can extract only low-level visual features such as color, shape, and texture, use similarity measures based on geometric models of similarity. However, most human similarity judgment data violate the metric axioms of these models. Tversky's (1977) contrast model, which defines …
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African writing in English in Southern Africa : an interpretation of the contribution to world literature of Black Africans within the confines of the Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia and the former British protectorates in Southern Africa
… and has begun to reciprocate by adding its own distinctive features. My contention will be based on an investigation of the trends and ideas which appear in the novels, short stories, poetry, drama, autobiographical and critical writing of Africans.
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Underspecification in Korean Phonology (Morphology)
… of a sound is characterized by some, not all, distinctive features, departing from the SPE view of a segment as an unordered set of all the features supplied by universal grammar. By eliminating redundant features from underlying representation and specifying only unpredictable features, …
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The effects of time-altered speech on the auditory discrimination ability of aphasics
… will also be presented on the role of distinctive features in speech perception. Finally, the statement of the problem will be posed.</p>
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Object Individuation in Domestic Chicks (Gallus gallus)
… provided by colour, shape, size or individually distinctive features, as well as spatiotemporal information in object individuation. A second series (Exp. 7 - Exp. 10) aimed at investigating the ability to use property/kind information using imprinting objects and food items (i.e. mealworms) as …
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Simulating Disempowerment: The Rhetoric and Reception of Social Realism in Video Games
… The study proceeds, however, to identify how the distinctive features of the video game medium may cause the political content of these experiences to be overlooked or re-interpreted by audience members. In examining the roles of realism, polyvalence and emotion in video game reception, the thesis …
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Towards an Integrated Model for the Judicial Regulation of State Contracts in South Africa
… contracts involving state bodies, given their distinctive features and hybrid public–private character? At the core of this question lies an understanding of the state under the 1996 Constitution – a state that is constitutionally constituted and defined, and therefore normatively distinct from …
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Digital signal processing techniques for improving the automatic classification of power quality events.
… of the power quality events, extraction of the distinctive features that characterise each event, and automatic classification of the similar events under pre-defined categories. The thesis proposes new power quality processing techniques for detection and feature extraction sections, including …
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Developmental Stages in Learning to Read Chinese Characters
… remember the first words by relying on a few distinctive features. As early as kindergarten, children begin using phonological information. The ability to use the phonetic strategy and the analogy strategy develops simultaneously and improves as reading experience increases. By the second …
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Changing media, changing cultural values - Chinese young adults' micro-blog usage and cultural values
… usage, the more likely they would show distinctive features in both Eastern and Western cultural values. In other words, highly active Chinese micro-blog users have crossed the Eastern and Western cultural boundaries and are developing bicultural identity due to globalization in media …
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The String Chamber Style and the String Quintet Medium in the Nineteenth Century
… of the meaning of chamber style occurred. The distinctive features of the string quintet are described in terms of sonority, breadth of form, and balance.
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Minutiae Triplet-based Features with Extended Ridge Information for Determining Sufficiency in Fingerprints
… and (2) to discover statistically rare features or patterns in fingerprints. These features would help establish an objective minimum-quality baseline for latent prints as well as aid in the latent examination process in making a matching comparison. The proposed methodologies use …
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New Resources in Twentieth-Century Piano Music and Richard Wilson's Eclogue (1974)
… forces into piano music, generating many distinctive features of modern music. The discussion of new resources in harmonic language, timbre, texture, form and concept of time has a direct bearing on aspects of Richard Wilson's Eclogue itself as well as aspects of performance problems. …
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Gravitational waves from a string cusp in Einstein-aether theory
… the speed of light. This altered speed produces distinctive features in the waves. They depend on two free parameters: roughly the wave speed and the acceleration of the string cusp. The profile of the wave is analyzed in detail for different values of the parameters and explained by close …
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COM-tester : a script testing tool for MS COM
… of Microsoft COM-based software. The core distinctive features of COM-Tester are: (1) A high-level simple interpreted language where the notion of a test is directly supported by a specific syntax. (2) Primitives to create and work easily with COM components. (3) Merging of source code and …
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"Measuring ""To Think Mathematically"": Cognitive Characterization of Achievement Levels in Performance-Based Assessment"
… thus, the MARC scale has a 5 x 4 grid. The distinctive features of the MARC scale are: (a) general scoring rubric that provides guidelines on achievement levels across tasks, (b) analytic with five local categories, and (c) holistic within each category. The MARC scale effectively …
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LA POESIA DI ATTILIO BERTOLUCCI. UNA STORIA EUROPEA
… Indeed, from this dialogue it derived its distinctive features. The privileged tools from a methodological point of view are the author’s archival papers and critical prose. On the basis of a conception of poetry «as an interhuman praxis, as a socio-relational fact and activity», this …
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