Smart Transcription

The Intelligent Voice Smart Transcript is an interactive HTML5 document that contains the audio, a speech transcription and the key topics from an audio recording. It is designed to enable a quick and efficient review of audio communications by encapsulating the recording with the speech transcript and topics within a single HTML5 file. This paper outlines the rationale for the design of the SmartTranscript user experience. The paper discusses the difficulties of audio review, how there is large potential for misinterpretation associated with reviewing transcripts in isolation, and how additional diarization and topic tagging components augment the audio review process

The Impact of Recent Banking Regulations on the Market for Corporate Control

Part II of this Article briefly discusses the historical development of the regulation of bank capital, focusing on the 1989 risk-based capital adequacy regulations as well as the 1989 highly leveraged transaction guidelines and their impact on the banking industry\u27s involvement in takeover transactions. This section also shows how the perverse incentives created by the present system of federal deposit insurance impact on the takeover market. Part III discusses the role of thrifts in corporate takeovers and the effect of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, including its prohibition on thrifts\u27 purchasing junk bonds. The concluding section speculates as to why these seemingly unwise regulations were adopted

A piloted simulator study on augmentation systems to improve helicopter flying qualities in terrain flight

Four basic single-rotor helicopters, one teetering, on articulated, and two hingeless, which were found to have a variety of major deficiencies in a previous fixed-based simulator study, were selected as baseline configurations. The stability and control augmentation systems (SCAS) include simple control augmentation systems to decouple pitch and yaw responses due to collective input and to quicken the pitch and roll control responses; SCAS of rate-command type designed to optimize the sensitivity and damping and to decouple the pitch-roll due to aircraft angular tate; and attitude-command type SCAS. Pilot ratings and commentary are presented as well as performance data related to the task. SCAS control usages and their gain levels associated with specific rotor types are also discussed

Effects of rotor parameter variations on handling qualities of unaugmented helicopters in simulated terrain flight

A coordinated analysis and ground simulator experiment was performed to investigate the effects on single rotor helicopter handling qualities of systematic variations in the main rotor hinge restraint, hub hinge offset, pitch-flap coupling, and blade lock number. Teetering rotor, articulated rotor, and hingeless rotor helicopters were evaluated by research pilots in special low level flying tasks involving obstacle avoidance at 60 to 100 knots airspeed. The results of the experiment are in the form of pilot ratings, pilot commentary, and some objective performance measures. Criteria for damping and sensitivity are reexamined when combined with the additional factors of cross coupling due to pitch and roll rates, pitch coupling with collective pitch, and longitudinal static stability. Ratings obtained with and without motion are compared. Acceptable flying qualities were obtained within each rotor type by suitable adjustment of the hub parameters, however, pure teetering rotors were found to lack control power for the tasks. A limit for the coupling parameter L sub q/L sub p of 0.35 is suggested

Blue harvest: inland fisheries as an ecosystem service

Global food production has increased greatly in recent years and rural livelihoods are much improved in many regions. Yet, despite this clear progress rural poverty and food insecurity remain deeply entrenched in many areas, especially in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In response the international community has renewed calls for increased commitment to meeting the needs of the world's poor. This report, commissioned as a contribution to the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity taking place in Nagoya, Japan, not only underlines the value of freshwater fisheries but provides guidance on how the ecosystem approach can be applied in order to sustain future harvests.Inland fisheries, Nutrition, Food security, Sustainability, Ecosystems

ЕКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНЕ ПОРІВНЯННЯ МЕТОДІВ ВІДМІННОЇ ФАЗИ ТА МЕТОДІВ ДИНАМІЧНОГО ФОКУСУВАННЯ У ВИЗНАЧЕННІ ПАРАМЕТРІВ БРУТАЛЬНОСТІ ПОВЕРХНІ.

In this work you can find information about differential-phase method and method of autofocusing, which are used on differential-phase laser scanning profilograph-profilometer (DFLSPP) and microscope «MICROSCAN» correspondently. Also is considered experimental comparison of defining of 3D micro- and nano-geometrical surface conditions and standardized roughness parameters of surface with the help of those methods.В этой статье предлагается информация о методе отличной фазы и метод с автоматической фокусировкой, которые используются на лазере отличной фазы, кто рассматривает профилограф-профилометр (ДЕДАЛ ЛСПП) и микроскоп «MICROSCAN» соответствующим образом.Также считается экспериментальным сравнения определения трехмерных микро- и наногеометричних поверхностных условий и стандартизированны епараметры грубости поверхности с помощью таких методов.У цій статті пропонується інформація про метод відмінної фази і метод з автоматичним фокусуванням, які використовуються на лазері відмінної фази, хто розглядає профілограф-профілометр (ДЕДАЛ-ЛСПП) і мікроскоп «MICROSCAN» відповідним чином. Також вважається експериментальним порівняння визначення тривимірних мікро- і наногеометричних поверхневих умов і стандартизовані параметри брутальності поверхні за допомогою таких методів