El Castillo de Bejís: noticia de los trabajos arqueológicos efectuados y hallazgo de un fragmento de inscripción romana

La actuación que hemos llevado a cabo en el Castillo de Bejís se enmarca dentro del 'Proyecto básico y de ejecución de consolidaciones urgentes de fábricas del Castillo de Bejís'. El planteamiento inicial era la realización de una serie de sondeos arqueológicos en la zona de la muralla noroeste. Sin embargo, las intervenciones contempladas en el proyecto arquitectónico suponían remoción de tierras, por lo que los trabajos arqueológicos en el Castillo contemplaron además de la apertura de cuatro sondeos el seguimiento de todas las actividades dentro del recinto fortificado que supusieran movimientos de tierra

Un sondeig en la via Augusta entre els termes municipals de la Pobla Tornesa i Vilafamés (la Plana Alta, Castelló)

En este artículo se explican los resultados del sondeo realizado en la vía Augusta entre los términos municipales de La Pobla Tornesa y Vilafamés (Castellón). Se han podido obtener datos sobre la técnica constructiva utilizada, su anchura y su estado de conservación

Bias and standard error for social reciprocity measurements

The directional consistency and skew-symmetry statistics have been proposed as global measurements of social reciprocity. Although both measures can be useful for quantifying social reciprocity, researchers need to know whether these estimators are biased in order to assess descriptive results properly. That is, if estimators are biased, researchers should compare actual values with expected values under the specified null hypothesis. Furthermore, standard errors are needed to enable suitable assessment of discrepancies between actual and expected values. This paper aims to derive some exact and approximate expressions in order to obtain bias and standard error values for both estimators for round-robin designs, although the results can also be extended to other reciprocal designs

Troballa de nivells iberoromans en una excavació urbana a Peníscola (el Baix Maestrat).

En este artículo damos a conocer los resultados de una excavación realizada en la población de Peñíscola, situada al norte de la costa valenciana. En ella se han documentado por primera vez niveles arqueológicos que pueden fecharse en el siglo II aC. Este modesto hallazgo confirma la hipótesis de que el tómbolo que ocupa la localidad fue ocupado en la antigüedad. In this paper we present the results of an excavation in the town of Peñíscola, situated north of the Valencian coast. It has been documented for the first time archaeological levels datable in the second century BC. This modest finding confirms the hypothesis that the tombolo where the town sits was occupied in antiquity

Affective analysis of customer service calls

This paper presents an affective and acoustic-prosodic analysis of a call-center corpus (700 phone calls with corresponding customer satisfaction levels). Our main goal is to understand how customers’ satisfaction correlates to the acoustic-prosodic and affective information (emotions and personality traits) of the interactions. A subset of 30 calls was manually annotated with emotions (frustrated vs.neutral) and personality traits (Big-Five model). Results on automatic satisfaction prediction from acoustic-prosodic features show a number of very informative linguistic knowledge-based features, especially pitch and energy ranges. The affective analysis also provides encouraging results, relating low/high satisfaction levels with the presence/absence of customer frustration. Concerning personality, customers tend to express signs of anxiety and nervousness, while agents are generally perceived as extroverted and open.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Data Balancing for Efficient Training of Hybrid ANN/HMM Automatic Speech Recognition Systems

Hybrid speech recognizers, where the estimation of the emission pdf of the states of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), usually carried out using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), is substituted by Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have several advantages over the classical systems. However, to obtain performance improvements, the computational requirements are heavily increased because of the need to train the ANN. Departing from the observation of the remarkable skewness of speech data, this paper proposes sifting out the training set and balancing the amount of samples per class. With this method the training time has been reduced 18 times while obtaining performances similar to or even better than those with the whole database, especially in noisy environments. However, the application of these reduced sets is not straightforward. To avoid the mismatch between training and testing conditions created by the modification of the distribution of the training data, a proper scaling of the a posteriori probabilities obtained and a resizing of the context window need to be performed as demonstrated in the paper.This work was supported in part by the regional grant (Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid-UC3M) CCG06-UC3M/TIC-0812 and in part by a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (TEC 2008-06382).Publicad

Oscillons in dilaton-scalar theories

It is shown by both analytical methods and numerical simulations that extremely long living spherically symmetric oscillons appear in virtually any real scalar field theory coupled to a massless dilaton (DS theories). In fact such "dilatonic" oscillons are already present in the simplest non-trivial DS theory -- a free massive scalar field coupled to the dilaton. It is shown that in analogy to the previously considered cases with a single nonlinear scalar field, in DS theories there are also time periodic quasibreathers (QB) associated to small amplitude oscillons. Exploiting the QB picture the radiation law of the small amplitude dilatonic oscillons is determined analytically.Comment: extended discussion on stability, to appear in JHEP, 29 pages, 7 figure

Accelerated expansion of the universe driven by tachyonic matter

It is an accepted practice in cosmology to invoke a scalar field with potential $V(\phi)$ when observed evolution of the universe cannot be reconciled with theoretical prejudices. Since one function-degree-of-freedom in the expansion factor $a(t)$ can be traded off for the function $V(\phi)$, it is {\it always} possible to find a scalar field potential which will reproduce a given evolution. I provide a recipe for determining $V(\phi)$ from $a(t)$ in two cases:(i) Normal scalar field with Lagrangian ${\cal L} = (1/2)\partial_a\phi \partial^a\phi - V(\phi)$ used in quintessence/dark energy models. (ii) A tachyonic field with Lagrangian ${\cal L} = -V(\phi) [ 1- \partial_a\phi \partial^a\phi]^{1/2}$, motivated by recent string theoretic results. In the latter case, it is possible to have accelerated expansion of the universe during the late phase in certain cases. This suggests a string theory based interpretation of the current phase of the universe with tachyonic condensate acting as effective cosmological constant.Comment: 4 pages; uses revtex

Real-time robust automatic speech recognition using compact support vector machines

In the last years, support vector machines (SVMs) have shown excellent performance in many applications, especially in the presence of noise. In particular, SVMs offer several advantages over artificial neural networks (ANNs) that have attracted the attention of the speech processing community. Nevertheless, their high computational requirements prevent them from being used in practice in automatic speech recognition (ASR), where ANNs have proven to be successful. The high complexity of SVMs in this context arises from the use of huge speech training databases with millions of samples and highly overlapped classes. This paper suggests the use of a weighted least squares (WLS) training procedure that facilitates the possibility of imposing a compact semiparametric model on the SVM, which results in a dramatic complexity reduction. Such a complexity reduction with respect to conventional SVMs, which is between two and three orders of magnitude, allows the proposed hybrid WLS-SVC/HMM system to perform real-time speech decoding on a connected-digit recognition task (SpeechDat Spanish database). The experimental evaluation of the proposed system shows encouraging performance levels in clean and noisy conditions, although further improvements are required to reach the maturity level of current context-dependent HMM based recognizers.Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation TEC 2008-06382 and TEC 2008-02473 and Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid-UC3M CCG10-UC3M/TIC-5304.Publicad