Access to recorded interviews: A research agenda

Recorded interviews form a rich basis for scholarly inquiry. Examples include oral histories, community memory projects, and interviews conducted for broadcast media. Emerging technologies offer the potential to radically transform the way in which recorded interviews are made accessible, but this vision will demand substantial investments from a broad range of research communities. This article reviews the present state of practice for making recorded interviews available and the state-of-the-art for key component technologies. A large number of important research issues are identified, and from that set of issues, a coherent research agenda is proposed

THE EFFECT OF USING MULTIPASS STRATEGY ON READING COMPREHENSION OF HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL HIDAYATUL MUBTADIIN BANDAR SUNGAI SIAK SRI INDRAPURA REGENCY

Being able to read in English is very important as it is known that success in reading is the most necessary because it is a basic tool of education. Based on the syllabus of MA Hidayatul Mubtadiin, it is hoped that students should comprehend monolog texts in narrative, spoof and hortatory exposition forms well. After doing preliminary observation at Hidayatul Mubtadiin Bandar Sungai, some of the students of the second year still had low ability in their reading. The dominant factors are the lack of vocabulary and the strategy of teaching reading comprehension. From the two of dominant factors, the researcher is interested to investigate about teaching reading comprehension. Thus, the researcher conducted a research entitled The Effect of Using Multipass Strategy on Reading Comprehension of Hortatory Exposition Text of The Second Year Students of Islamic Senior High School Hidayatul Mubtadiin Bandar Sungai Siak Sri Indrapura Regency. The purpose of this research was to find out students’ reading comprehension taught by multipass strategy and taught without using multipass strategy, and to find out significant effect of the using multipass strategy in students reading comprehension of hortatory exposition text. The design of this research was Quasi experimental research by post test only. The subject of this research was the second year students of MA hidayatul Mubtadiin Bandar Sungai. The total population was 42 students and the sample of the research was 42 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used test and observation checklist. The test used was multiple choices. In analyzing the data, the researcher used T-test. Finally, based on the analysis, it was found 2.022.72. So, H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. It means that there was a significant effect of the using multipass strategy on students reading comprehension of hortatory exposition text of MA hidayatul Mubtadiin Bandar Sungai

Adaptation of voice sever to automotive environment

This project is embedded within an investigation Project named "Movilidad y Automoción para Redes de Transporte Avanzados" (MARTA).It has as a fundamental strategic goal to consolidate the scientifically and technological basis to 21th century mobility to allow Spanish ITS ("Intelligent Transport Systems") sector to answer the challenges of efficiency, sustainability, etc . which European society and especially Spanish society has to confront in the next years. In this project Telefónica I+D (TID) is in charge of the study, specification and implementation of speech technology in automotive environment considering vehicle usability conditions. The work of the student in this project is to adapt a voice server, that contains speech tools, to automotive environment. Add new libraries that annex new functions and extend and develop the communication with XML to use these new functions

ENHANCED SURFACE INTEGRITY WITH THERMALLY STABLE RESIDUAL STRESS FIELDS AND NANOSTRUCTURES IN CRYOGENIC PROCESSING OF TITANIUM ALLOY TI-6AL-4V

Burnishing is a chipless finishing process used to improve surface integrity by severe plastic deformation (SPD) of surface asperities. As surface integrity in large measure defines the functional performance and fatigue life of aerospace alloys, burnishing is thus a means of increasing the fatigue life of critical components, such as turbine and compressor blades in gas turbine engines. Therefore, the primary objective of this dissertation is to characterize the burnishing-induced surface integrity of Ti-6Al-4V alloy in terms of the implemented processing parameters. As the impact of cooling mechanisms on surface integrity from SPD processing is largely unexplored, a particular emphasis was placed upon evaluating the influence of cryogenic cooling with liquid nitrogen in comparison to more conventional methodologies. Analysis of numerical and experimental results reveals that burnishing facilitates grain refinement via continuous dynamic recrystallization. Application of LN2 during SPD processing of Ti-6Al-4V alloy suppresses the growth of new grains, leading to the formation of near-surface nanostructures which exhibit increased microhardness and compressive residual stress fields. This is particularly true in cryogenic multipass burnishing, where successive tool passes utilizing lower working pressures generate thermally stable work hardened surface layers, uniform nano-level surface finishes, and significantly deeper layers of compressive residual stresses

Deriving and Exploiting Situational Information in Speech: Investigations in a Simulated Search and Rescue Scenario

The need for automatic recognition and understanding of speech is emerging in tasks involving the processing of large volumes of natural conversations. In application domains such as Search and Rescue, exploiting automated systems for extracting mission-critical information from speech communications has the potential to make a real difference. Spoken language understanding has commonly been approached by identifying units of meaning (such as sentences, named entities, and dialogue acts) for providing a basis for further discourse analysis. However, this fine-grained identification of fundamental units of meaning is sensitive to high error rates in the automatic transcription of noisy speech. This thesis demonstrates that topic segmentation and identification techniques can be employed for information extraction from spoken conversations by being robust to such errors. Two novel topic-based approaches are presented for extracting situational information within the search and rescue context. The first approach shows that identifying the changes in the context and content of first responders' report over time can provide an estimation of their location. The second approach presents a speech-based topological map estimation technique that is inspired, in part, by automatic mapping algorithms commonly used in robotics. The proposed approaches are evaluated on a goal-oriented conversational speech corpus, which has been designed and collected based on an abstract communication model between a first responder and a task leader during a search process. Results have confirmed that a highly imperfect transcription of noisy speech has limited impact on the information extraction performance compared with that obtained on the transcription of clean speech data. This thesis also shows that speech recognition accuracy can benefit from rescoring its initial transcription hypotheses based on the derived high-level location information. A new two-pass speech decoding architecture is presented. In this architecture, the location estimation from a first decoding pass is used to dynamically adapt a general language model which is used for rescoring the initial recognition hypotheses. This decoding strategy has resulted in a statistically significant gain in the recognition accuracy of the spoken conversations in high background noise. It is concluded that the techniques developed in this thesis can be extended to more application domains that deal with large volumes of natural spoken conversations

Level One Peer Tutoring Fundamentals and Integration Workbook

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Department of Computer Science Activity 1998-2004

This report summarizes much of the research and teaching activity of the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College between late 1998 and late 2004. The material for this report was collected as part of the final report for NSF Institutional Infrastructure award EIA-9802068, which funded equipment and technical staff during that six-year period. This equipment and staff supported essentially all of the department\u27s research activity during that period

Reading in the Content Area: Its Impact on Teaching in the Social Studies Classroom

This study focused on evaluating the sufficiency of research in reading in the content area used to instruct classroom teachers. The research used was conducted between 1970 and 2000 and incorporated into textbooks written between 1975 and 2005. Studies examined were those reported in the following journals: Review of Educational Research, Review of Research in Education, Social Education, Theory and Research in Social Education, Reading Research Quarterly, and Research in the Teaching of English. Some attention was also given to two major educational curriculum and issue journals- Educational Leadership and Phi Delta Kappan as these sources might identify relevant research studies for further investigation. References cited in more than one text helped identify and establish a baseline of those studies considered most significant by textbook authors. The findings of this study showed that the majority of citations looked at the following themes: -Learners acquire meaning from the printed page through thought. -Reading can and should be done for different purposes using a variety of materials. -A number of techniques can be used to teach reading skills. -Reading materials need to be selected according to changes in a child‘s interests. -Reading ability is the level of reading difficulty that students can cope with. It depends on ability rather than age or grade level. -Readability contributes to both the reader‘s degree of comprehension and the need for teacher assistance when reading difficulty exceeds the reader‘s capability. -Reading instruction, in some form, needs to be carried on into the secondary grades. Research findings from the 1970s were concerned with reading strategies, reading skills, reading comprehension, readability, attitudes towards reading, vocabulary, study skills, and content area reading programs. In the 1980s research cited in content area reading books looked at reading comprehension, reading skills, vocabulary, learning strategies, curriculum issues, purposes for reading and writing, content area reading programs, readability, schema theory, thinking skills, summarizing, comprehension strategies, and cooperative learning. By the 1990s more research cited in content area reading books focused on reading strategies, curriculum issues, how to read documents and graphs, reading skills, vocabulary, attitudes towards reading, reading comprehension, and activating background knowledge

Making the best use of new technologies in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey: a review

.Background Dietary assessment is of paramount importance for public health monitoring. Currently in the UK, the population’s diets are examined by the National Diet and Nutrition Survey Rolling Programme (NDNS RP). In the survey, diet is assessed by a four-day paper-based dietary diary, with accompanying interviews, anthropometric measurements and blood and urine sampling. However, there is growing interest worldwide in the potential for new technologies to assist in data collection for assessment of dietary intake. Published literature reviews have identified the potential of new technologies to improve accuracy, reduce costs, and reduce respondent and researcher burden by automating data capture and the nutritional coding process. However, this is a fast-moving field of research, with technologies developing at a rapid pace, and an updated review of the potential application of new technologies in dietary assessment is warranted. This review was commissioned to identify the new technologies employed in dietary assessment and critically appraise their strengths and limitations in order to recommend which technologies, if any, might be suitable to develop for use in the NDNS RP and other UK population surveys. Objectives The overall aim of the project was to inform the Department of Health of the range of new technologies currently available and in development internationally that have potential to improve, complement or replace the methods used in the NDNS RP. The specific aims were: to generate an itinerary of new and emerging technologies that may be suitable; to systematically review the literature and critically appraise new technologies; and to recommend which of these new technologies, if any, would be appropriate for future use in the NDNS RP. To meet these aims, the project comprised two main facets, a literature review and qualitative research. Literature review data sources The literature review incorporated an extensive search of peer-reviewed and grey literature. The following sources were searched: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), Web of Science Core Collection, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid MEDLINE In-Process, Embase, NHS EED (Economic Evaluation Database), National Cancer Institute (NCI) Dietary Assessment Calibration/Validation Register, OpenGrey, EPPI Centre (TRoPHI), conference proceedings (ICDAM 2012, ISBNPA 2013, IEEE Xplore, Nutrition Society Irish Section and Summer Meetings 2014), recent issues of journals (Journal of Medical Internet Research, International Journal of Medical Informatics), grants registries (ClinicalTrials.gov, BBSRC, report), national surveys, and mobile phone application stores. In addition, hand-searching of relevant citations was performed. The search also included solicitation of key authors in the field to enquire about Making the best use of new technologies in the NDNS: a review 4 as-yet unpublished articles or reports, and a Bristol Online Survey publicised via social media, society newsletters and meetings. Literature review eligibility criteria Records were screened for eligibility using a three-stage process. Firstly, keyword searches identified obviously irrelevant titles. Secondly, titles and abstracts were screened against the eligibility criteria, following which full-text copies of papers were obtained and, in the third stage of screening, examined against the criteria. Two independent reviewers screened each record at each stage, with discrepancies referred to a third reviewer. Eligibility criteria were pre-specified and agreed by the project Steering Group (Section 1.6). Eligible records included: studies involving technologies, new to the NDNS RP, which can be used to automate or assist the collection of food consumption data and the coding of foods and portion sizes, currently available or beta versions, public domain or commercial; studies that address the development, features, or evaluation of new technology; technologies appropriate for the requirements of the NDNS RP in terms of nutritional analysis, with capacity to collect quantifiable consumption data at the food level; primary sources of information on a particular technology; and journal articles published since the year 2000 or grey literature available from 2011 onwards. The literature search was not limited to Englishlanguage publications, which are included in the itinerary, although data were not extracted from non-English studies. Literature synthesis and appraisal New technologies were categorised into eleven types of technology, and an itinerary was generated of tools falling under each category type. Due to the volume of eligible studies identified by the literature searches, data extraction was limited to the literature focussing on selected exemplar tools of five technology categories (web-based diet diary, web-based 24- hour recall, handheld devices (personal digital assistants and mobile phones), nonautomated cameras to complement traditional methods, and non-automated cameras to replace traditional methods). For each category, at least two exemplars were chosen, and all studies involving the exemplar were included in data extraction and synthesis. Exemplars were selected on the basis of breadth of evidence available, using pre-specified criteria agreed by the Steering Group. Data were extracted by a single reviewer and an evidence summary collated for each exemplar. A quality appraisal checklist was developed to assess the quality of validation studies. The checklist was piloted and applied by two independent reviewers. Studies were not excluded on the basis of quality, but study quality was taken into account when judging the strength of evidence. Due to the heterogeneity of the literature, meta-analyses were not performed. References were managed and screened using the EPPI Reviewer 4 systematic review software. EPPI Reviewer was also used to extract data