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Automatic classification of prosodically marked phrase boundaries in German

A large corpus has been created automatically and read by speakers. Phrase boundaries were labeled in the sentences automatically during sentence generation. Perception experiments on a subset of 500 utterances showed a high agreement between the automatically generated boundary markers and the ones perceived by listeners. Gaussian distribution and polynomial classifiers were trained on a set of prosodic features computed from the speech signal using the automatically generated boundary markers. Comparing the classification results with the judgments of the listeners yielded in a recognition rate of 87%. A combination with stochastic language models improved the recognition rate to 90%. We found that the pause and the durational features are most important for the classification, but that the influence of F0 is not neglectable

PERENCANAAN PENGEMBANGAN BANDAR UDARA KUABANG KAO KABUPATEN HALMAHERA UTARA PROVINSI MALUKU UTARA

Kabupaten Halmahera Utara dengan Ibukota Kabupaten Tobelo memiliki beberapa bandar udara antara lain Bandar Udara Gamarmalamo (Galela),Bandar Udara Kuabang (Kao) dan Bandar Udara Boso yang terletak di area operasional penggalian Mineral oleh PT. Nusa Halmahera Mineral, salah satu bandar udara yaitu Bandar Udara Kuabang Kao merupakan pintu masuk transportasi udara yang sangat penting di Kabupaten Halmahera Utara, namun sampai saat ini Bandar Udara Kuabang Kao masih memiliki kelemahan yang sangat signifikan baik disisi udara maupun sisi darat untuk itu dirasakan perlu untuk melakukan suatu pengembangan agar mampu menjawab kebutuhan transportasi udara di Kabupaten Halmahera Utara untuk masa yang akan datang. Penelitian yang dilakukan menggunakan data primer seperti data klimatologi, keadaan topografi dan existing bandara serta data sekunder seperti data arus lalu lintas udara selama lima tahun, data karakteristik pesawat dan data penduduk yang dijadikan acuan sebagai dasar perencanaan pengembangan Bandar Udara Kuabang Kao. Perencanaan pengembangan Bandar Udara Kuabang Kao meliputi Runway, Taxiway, Apron yang mengacu pada standar ICAO, sementara untuk perencanaan perkerasan mengacu pada standar PCA dan FAA, serta terminal area yang meliputi terminal penumpang, gudang dan area parkir kendaraan yang dianalisa berdasarkan hasil analisa perkembangan arus lalu lintas pesawat udara dan pergerakan pesawat serta penumpang pada jam sibuk di masa yang akan datang. Dari hasil analisis diperolehkan panjang Runway yang dibutuhkan adalah 1670 meter, yang berada pada orientasi 180–360, untuk perkerasan lentur Runway dan Taxiway didapat ketebalan adalah 34cm, luas Apron 165mx67m, tebal perkerasan Rigid pada Apron 18 cm, luas total terminal penumpang 6290m2, area parkir kendaraan 1001 m2 (50x20 m) serta luas gudang 22.03m2. Kata kunci: Bandar Udara Kuabang Kao, perencanaan, pengembangan, Runway, Taxiway, Apron,Terminal penumpang

A person-centered perspective on working with people who have experienced psychological trauma and helping them move forward to posttraumatic growth

Over the past decade posttraumatic growth (PTG) has become a major topic for theory, research and practice in mainstream trauma psychology. The aim of this paper is to discuss the implications of PTG for the person-centered approach. It is argued that PTG provides a new non-medical language for understanding psychological trauma that is consistent with the person-centered approach. Person-centered personality theory provides an explanation for how PTG arises and leads to new testable predictions for research into how person-centered therapy may be able to facilitate PTG

The Current State of Performance Appraisal Research and Practice: Concerns, Directions, and Implications

On the surface, it is not readily apparent how some performance appraisal research issues inform performance appraisal practice. Because performance appraisal is an applied topic, it is useful to periodically consider the current state of performance research and its relation to performance appraisal practice. This review examines the performance appraisal literature published in both academic and practitioner outlets between 1985 and 1990, briefly discusses the current state of performance appraisal practice, highlights the juxtaposition of research and practice, and suggests directions for further research

Caveolin-1 protects B6129 mice against Helicobacter pylori gastritis.

Caveolin-1 (Cav1) is a scaffold protein and pathogen receptor in the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract. Chronic infection of gastric epithelial cells by Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a major risk factor for human gastric cancer (GC) where Cav1 is frequently down-regulated. However, the function of Cav1 in H. pylori infection and pathogenesis of GC remained unknown. We show here that Cav1-deficient mice, infected for 11 months with the CagA-delivery deficient H. pylori strain SS1, developed more severe gastritis and tissue damage, including loss of parietal cells and foveolar hyperplasia, and displayed lower colonisation of the gastric mucosa than wild-type B6129 littermates. Cav1-null mice showed enhanced infiltration of macrophages and B-cells and secretion of chemokines (RANTES) but had reduced levels of CD25+ regulatory T-cells. Cav1-deficient human GC cells (AGS), infected with the CagA-delivery proficient H. pylori strain G27, were more sensitive to CagA-related cytoskeletal stress morphologies ("humming bird") compared to AGS cells stably transfected with Cav1 (AGS/Cav1). Infection of AGS/Cav1 cells triggered the recruitment of p120 RhoGTPase-activating protein/deleted in liver cancer-1 (p120RhoGAP/DLC1) to Cav1 and counteracted CagA-induced cytoskeletal rearrangements. In human GC cell lines (MKN45, N87) and mouse stomach tissue, H. pylori down-regulated endogenous expression of Cav1 independently of CagA. Mechanistically, H. pylori activated sterol-responsive element-binding protein-1 (SREBP1) to repress transcription of the human Cav1 gene from sterol-responsive elements (SREs) in the proximal Cav1 promoter. These data suggested a protective role of Cav1 against H. pylori-induced inflammation and tissue damage. We propose that H. pylori exploits down-regulation of Cav1 to subvert the host's immune response and to promote signalling of its virulence factors in host cells

Diabetes and pancreatic cancer survival: A prospective cohort-based study

BACKGROUND: Diabetes is a risk factor for pancreatic cancer but its association with survival from pancreatic cancer is poorly understood. Our objective was to investigate the association of diabetes with survival among pancreatic cancer patients in a prospective cohort-based study where diabetes history was ascertained before pancreatic cancer diagnosis. METHODS: We evaluated survival by baseline (1993–2001) self-reported diabetes history (n=62) among 504 participants that developed exocrine pancreatic cancer within the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for mortality were estimated using Cox proportional hazards model, adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, race, smoking, and tumour stage (local, locally advanced, and metastatic). RESULTS: The multivariable-adjusted HR for mortality comparing participants with diabetes to those without was 1.52 (95% CI=1.14–2.04, P-value <0.01). After excluding those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer within 3 years of study enrolment, HR for mortality among those with diabetes was 1.45 (95% CI=1.06–2.00, P-value=0.02). CONCLUSIONS: Using prospectively collected data, our findings indicate that diabetes is associated with worse survival among patients with pancreatic cancer

Propagation of Magnetic Fields from Electrical Domestic Appliances

The article presents a research into propagation of magnetic fields from electrical domestic devices. A safe distance at which magnetic induction does not exceed the background level is determined for each type of devices. It is proved that there are two stages of increasing magnetic induction as the distance from the source increases. At the first stage magnetic induction rises and electromagnetic field is formed. At the second stage exponential decrease of magnetic field induction takes place. Mathematical regularities of propagation of magnetic field from electrical domestic devices are experimentally educed