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    Town of Sullivan, New Hampshire annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014.

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    This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire

    The Freston Causewayed Enclosure

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    Current models view southeast England as where Neolithic lifeways were first introduced to Britain from continental Europe c. 4000 cal BC, however, there has been little work detailing this process in coastal East Anglia. In 2019, work at the Freston causewayed enclosure provided the first view of a major gathering space associated with semi-mobile farming communities of the Early Neolithic in the county of Suffolk and located on a major estuary close to the North Sea. Excavation produced a rich assemblage of worked flint and Mildenhall Ware pottery (potentially for feasting), plus evidence for the consumption of cereals and hazelnuts

    Detecting early signs of dementia in conversation

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    Dementia can affect a person's speech, language and conversational interaction capabilities. The early diagnosis of dementia is of great clinical importance. Recent studies using the qualitative methodology of Conversation Analysis (CA) demonstrated that communication problems may be picked up during conversations between patients and neurologists and that this can be used to differentiate between patients with Neuro-degenerative Disorders (ND) and those with non-progressive Functional Memory Disorder (FMD). However, conducting manual CA is expensive and difficult to scale up for routine clinical use.\ud This study introduces an automatic approach for processing such conversations which can help in identifying the early signs of dementia and distinguishing them from the other clinical categories (FMD, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and Healthy Control (HC)). The dementia detection system starts with a speaker diarisation module to segment an input audio file (determining who talks when). Then the segmented files are passed to an automatic speech recogniser (ASR) to transcribe the utterances of each speaker. Next, the feature extraction unit extracts a number of features (CA-inspired, acoustic, lexical and word vector) from the transcripts and audio files. Finally, a classifier is trained by the features to determine the clinical category of the input conversation. Moreover, we investigate replacing the role of a neurologist in the conversation with an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) (asking similar questions). We show that despite differences between the IVA-led and the neurologist-led conversations, the results achieved by the IVA are as good as those gained by the neurologists. Furthermore, the IVA can be used for administering more standard cognitive tests, like the verbal fluency tests and produce automatic scores, which then can boost the performance of the classifier. The final blind evaluation of the system shows that the classifier can identify early signs of dementia with an acceptable level of accuracy and robustness (considering both sensitivity and specificity)

    Town of Sutton, New Hampshire annual report and vital statistics for fiscal year ending December 31, 2006.

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    Divergentni putevi srpske elite

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    Povodom izlaska iz štampe knjige Latinke Perović Dominantna i neželjena elita. Beleške o intelektualnoj i političkoj eliti u Srbiji (XX–XXI vek) (Beograd, 2015), autor se u radu bavi analizom rezonance koju je ona imala u javnosti, akcentujući pre svega dve kardinalne i paradigmatične ličnosti u njoj. Marko Nikezić i Dobrica Ćosić predstavljali su personifikacije divergentnih puteva kojima je srpska intelektualna i politička elita stremila u drugoj polovini XX veka. Prvi, kao emanacija neželjene elite koja je rušila petrifikovane obrasce ideoloških kontituiteta, i drugi, kao ključni diseminator dominantnog ideološkog obrasca savremenosti. Navedena kontroverza karakteristična je i danas za srpsko društvo

    Diets, Foods and Food Components Effect on Dyslipidemia

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    Dyslipidemia, and particularly hypercholesterolemia, remains a main cardiovascular disease risk factor, partly reversible with the improvement of life-style, including dietary, habits. Even when a pharmacological treatment is begun, dietary support to lipid-lowering is always desired. This book will provide a selection of new evidence on the possible lipid-lowering effects of some dietary and medicinal plant components, reporting some interesting reviews, experimental data and results from clinical trials. The book is adapted for experts in nutrition but also for all scientists involved in cardiovascular disease prevention

    Annual reports of the town of Winchester and Winchester school district for fiscal year July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.

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    Air Traffic Management Abbreviation Compendium

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    As in all fields of work, an unmanageable number of abbreviations are used today in aviation for terms, definitions, commands, standards and technical descriptions. This applies in general to the areas of aeronautical communication, navigation and surveillance, cockpit and air traffic control working positions, passenger and cargo transport, and all other areas of flight planning, organization and guidance. In addition, many abbreviations are used more than once or have different meanings in different languages. In order to obtain an overview of the most common abbreviations used in air traffic management, organizations like EUROCONTROL, FAA, DWD and DLR have published lists of abbreviations in the past, which have also been enclosed in this document. In addition, abbreviations from some larger international projects related to aviation have been included to provide users with a directory as complete as possible. This means that the second edition of the Air Traffic Management Abbreviation Compendium includes now around 16,500 abbreviations and acronyms from the field of aviation
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