Author: SRI International
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Sidecountry Rescue—Who Is Responsible?
This paper describes a first-hand experience with an open-boundary accident and debates what organization should proactively prepare for sidecountry rescue with a plan, SAR equipment, and special training.
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Weakly Supervised Training for Parsing Mandarin Broadcast Transcripts
We compare co-training to self-training, and our results show that performance using co-training is significantly better than with self-training and both co-training and self-training with a small seed labeled corpus can improve parsing accuracy significantly over training on the mismatching newswire treebank.
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The 2008 Scheduling and Planning Applications Workshop (SPARK’08)
SPARK’08 was the first edition of a workshop series designed to provide a stable, long-term forum where researchers could discuss the applications of planning and scheduling techniques to real problems.
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Fast Color/Texture Segmentation for Outdoor Robots
We present results of applying our descriptor for segmenting a synthetic image and compare it against other state-of-the-art descriptors.
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Mast Cell-Expressed Orphan Receptor Ccrl2 Binds Chemerin and Is Required for Optimal Induction of Ige-Mediated Passive Cutaneous Anaphylaxis
We show that the mast cell–expressed orphan serpentine receptor mCCRL2 is not required for expression of IgE-mediated mast cell–dependent passive cutaneous anaphylaxis but can enhance the tissue swelling and leukocyte infiltrates associated with such reactions in mice.
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Modeling prior belief for speaker verification SVM systems
In this paper we propose to relax the assumption that the covariance matrix is the identity matrix, allowing it to be a more general block diagonal matrix. We show results on two speaker verification systems: a Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (MLLR)-based system and a prosodic system.
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Step Formation on Hydrogen-Etched 6H-Sic{0 0 0 1} Surfaces
The formation of step bunches and/or facets on hydrogen-etched 6H-SiC(0 0 0 1) and (0001¯) surfaces has been studied, using both nominally on-axis and intentionally miscut (i.e. vicinal) substrates.
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Comparison of Filling Agents for Lip Augmentation
The authors discuss various filling agents currently available that can be used to augment the lips, correct perioral rhytides, and enhance overall lip appearance.
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Genome-Wide Linkage of Cotinine Pharmacokinetics Suggests Candidate Regionson Chromosomes 9 and 11
We conducted a whole-genome linkage analysis to search for candidate regions influencing quantitative variation in cotinine pharmacokinetics in a large-scale pharmacokinetic study with 61 families containing 224 healthy adult participants.
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Measuring Family Outcomes Considerations for Large-Scale Data Collection in Early Intervention
This article discusses issues and considerations in documenting family outcomes in the context of large-scale assessments involving many families and and describes the initial development of a survey instrument that could be useful in such efforts.
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Observations of Wintertime Arctic Mesosphere Cooling Associated with Stratosphere Baroclinic Zones
We propose that these types of mesosphere cooling events are related to stratospheric baroclinic zones and a Q-vector analysis of stratospheric geopotential and temperature fields can be used to help identify and describe regional occurrences of significant cooling in the mesosphere.
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Thermochemistry of the Gaseous Vanadium Chlorides VCl, VCl2, VCl3, and VCl4
Gaseous equilibria in the V−Ag−Cl system were studied at elevated temperatures by effusion-beam mass spectrometry, where the pertinent species were generated by reaction of Cl2(g) with V + Ag granules in the effusion cell source.