Robert Flynn : Changes

Enright situates Flynn's ceramics in relation to modernism, noting how he synthesizes primitive shapes with refined decoration. Artist's statement. Biographical notes

Relation of the change in the height of the 700 millibar surface to the following day's change in the central pressure of surface lows

This investigation was undertaken at the United States Naval Postgraduate School during the winter of 1949 - 1950. It was undertaken to find out what if any relation existed between the change in the height of the 700 millibar surface over a surface low, and the following day's central pressure of the surface low. The data was obtained from analyzed surface and 700 millibar maps on file at the United States Naval Postgraduate School (Aerology), Monterey, California.Lieutenant Commander, United States Nav

A survey of parasitism in a population of pigeons

Numerous papers relative to parasites in pigeons can be found in the literature, but information concerning parasitic infections in pigeons of Virginia is scant, and no survey of parasitism has been made. Furthermore, no one survey or parasitism in pigeons of North America has included the incidence of both ectoparasites and endoparasites. Information relative to the incidence of individual parasites or groups of parasites, however, is available in recent literature, as well as information concerning isolated cases of parasitism The present study was undertaken to (1) determine the nature and extent of parasitism in a population of pigeons in Henrico County, Virginia, and (2) to determine the useful­ ness of the pigeon as a source of material for studies on individual parasites

Leveraging Cross-Utterance Context For ASR Decoding

While external language models (LMs) are often incorporated into the decoding stage of automated speech recognition systems, these models usually operate with limited context. Cross utterance information has been shown to be beneficial during second pass re-scoring, however this limits the hypothesis space based on the local information available to the first pass LM. In this work, we investigate the incorporation of long-context transformer LMs for cross-utterance decoding of acoustic models via beam search, and compare against results from n-best rescoring. Results demonstrate that beam search allows for an improved use of cross-utterance context. When evaluating on the long-format dataset AMI, results show a 0.7\% and 0.3\% absolute reduction on dev and test sets compared to the single-utterance setting, with improvements when including up to 500 tokens of prior context. Evaluations are also provided for Tedlium-1 with less significant improvements of around 0.1\% absolute

How Much Context Does My Attention-Based ASR System Need?

For the task of speech recognition, the use of more than 30 seconds of acoustic context during training is uncommon, and under-investigated in literature. In this work, we examine the effect of scaling the sequence length used to train/evaluate (dense-attention based) acoustic and language models on speech recognition performance. For these experiments a dataset of roughly 100,000 pseudo-labelled Spotify podcasts is used, with context lengths of 5 seconds to 1 hour being explored. Zero-shot evaluations on long-format datasets Earnings-22 and Tedlium demonstrate a benefit from training with around 80 seconds of acoustic context, showing up to a 14.9% relative improvement from a limited context baseline. Furthermore, we perform a system combination with long-context transformer language models via beam search for a fully long-context ASR system, with results that are competitive with the current state-of-the-art

A Quarter-Century of Normalization and Social Role Valorization

During the late 1960s, Normalization and Social Role Valorization (SRV) enabled the widespread emergence of community residential options and then provided the philosophical climate within which educational integration, supported employment, and community participation were able to take firm root. This book is unique in tracing the evolution and impact of Normalization and SRV over the last quarter-century, with many of the chapter authors personally involved in a still-evolving international movement