A study to determine the satisfactions and dissatisfactions of maternity patients during hospitalization

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Frequency averaging: a useful multiwindow spectral analysis approach

The multiwindow approach is a meaningful framework for nonparametric spectral estimation. It also encompasses several conventional methods as WOSA and frequency-averaged periodogram. Recently, some authors claimed that the Slepian windows of Thomson's method and other related optimal sets of windows show a better performance in terms of resolution, variance and leakage. In this paper, that claim is discussed by means of some simulation examples and by applying the various methods to speech recognition. In conclusion, frequency averaging of the periodogram is a computationally simple method that has a great flexibility for band specification and comparatively shows good performance. In fact, it is the spectral analysis technique most extensively employed for speech recognition.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Design of a phonetic corpus for speech recognition in catalan

In this paper, we present the design of a corpus for speech recognition to be used for the recording of a speech database in Catalan. A previous database in Spanish was the reference in setting the specifications about the characteristics of the sentences and in the minimum number of units required. An analysis of unit frequencies were carried out in order to know which units were relevant for training and to compare the results with the figures from the designed corpus. Three different sub-corpora were generated, one for training, ...Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Cervantes y la comunicación de la historia

L’autor estudia un camp poc advertit pel cervantisme: el del Cervantes teòric de la Història. A tal efecte, analitza les seves al.lusions als historiòsofs vigents a inicis del segle XVII, així com els llibres d’epistemologia històrica que va poder conèixer durant la seva joventut al costat de López de Hoyos. Seguidament, tot fent una exègesi sobre el text de l’humanista del Quixot i resseguint al López de Hoyos autor de les innecessàriament anomenades Relaciones topográficas, posa de manifest la manera com aquest va ser menystingut pel seu propi deixeble, Cervantes. El següent aspecte tractat és el dels criteris de Cervantes sobre l’escriptura de la Història i, finalment, la manera com ho va efectivament fer, en el complexe i fascinant passatge de la vida del captiu. En el seu tractament, l’autor combina el text cervantí amb documentació inèdita de l’arxiu de Simancas.This article analyzes a seldom noticed topic in Cervantism: that of Cervantes as a writer on History. It takes into account both his allusions to current historiosophs by the early seventeenth century and those books on historical epistemology he might have known during his youth near López de Hoyos. Then it undertakes an exegesis on Don Quixote’s text on the figure of the humanist, it studies López de Hoyos as author of the unnecesarilly so called «Topographic relations» and it shows how he was held in disdein by his own pupil, Cervantes. Another aspect dealt with in the article are Cervantes’ ideas on how History should be written and how he actually did it in the complex and fascinating passage of the captive’s life. Here the author intermingles the Cervantine text with unpublished evidence from the Simancas archive

Lógica y monadología.

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