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Investigating Speech Recognition For Improving Predictive Aac, Keith Vertanen

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Adhikary, J., Watling, R., Fletcher, C., Stanage, A., & Vertanen, K. (2019). Investigating Speech Recognition for Improving Predictive AAC. SLPAT '19: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies. 37-43. Minneapolis, MN. https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/cs_fp/16

A Survey Of State-Of-The-Art Gan-Based Approaches To Image Synthesis, Shahram Latifi, Shirin Nasr Esfahani

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research

In the past few years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have received immense attention by researchers in a variety of application domains. This new field of deep learning has been growing rapidly and has provided a way to learn deep representations without extensive use of annotated training data. Their achievements may be used in a variety of applications, including speech synthesis, image and video generation, semantic image editing, and style transfer. Image synthesis is an important component of expert systems and it attracted much attention since the introduction of GANs. However, GANs are known to be difficult to train especially when …

Biom 4110/6110: The Science Of Medicine (Syllabus), Bradford D. Pendley

Biomedical Engineering Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Integration of fundamental principles from physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics, and applications of these principles to solve problems in medicine.

Why Does Parental Divorce Lower Children's Educational Attainment? A Causal Mediation Analysis, Ravaris Moore

Sociology Faculty Works

Mechanisms explaining the negative effects of parental divorce on children's attainment have long been conjectured and assessed. Yet few studies of parental divorce have carefully attended to the assumptions and methods necessary to estimate causal mediation effects. Applying a causal framework to linked U.S. panel data, we assess the degree to which parental divorce limits children's education among whites and nonwhites and whether observed lower levels of educational attainment are explained by postdivorce family conditions and children's skills. Our analyses yield three key findings. First, the negative effect of divorce on educational attainment, particularly college, is substantial for white children; …

The Contributors, Marites Tiongco

DLSU Business & Economics Review

No abstract provided.

Are Filipino Smokers More Sensitive To Cigarette Prices Due To The Sin Tax Reform Law?: A Difference-In-Difference Analysis, Myrna S. Austria, Jesson A. Pagaduan

DLSU Business & Economics Review

Employing a two-part estimation model using the Family Income Expenditure Survey before (2009) and after (2015) the tax reform, our study assessed the impact of the Philippine Sin Tax Reform Act (2012) on cigarette consumption and the responsiveness of cigarette consumption to price changes. The results are consistent with existing studies that cigarette consumption is price inelastic. The demand, however, has become less inelastic in the Philippines over the period 2009 to 2015, indicating a more responsive cigarette demand to price increases. Of the total effect of cigarette price increase on demand, the decrease in consumption by smokers (smoking intensity) …

The Role Of Fiscal Policy In A Natural Disaster-Prone Economy, Dickson Lim

DLSU Business & Economics Review

Theoretical work done on the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters has neglected the role of fiscal policy in stabilizing other sectors of the economy. Although inclusion of a public sector with a fiscal authority in macroeconomic models is common in the literature, most of these models assume that government expenditures are unproductive in that they do not accrue to anyone but the government. In reality, for a model that incorporates natural disaster and foreign aid, having a productive fiscal authority that produces public goods and services, as well as infrastructure, is necessary to capture the real effects of foreign aid …

Deep Habits And Taxes: A Simulation Study, Lawrence B. Dacuycuy

DLSU Business & Economics Review

Using a calibrated dynamic model that embeds endogenous fiscal policy tools, this note provides simulation evidence on the effectiveness of tax and fiscal spending policies in determining key macroeconomic outcomes. The model was chosen because newly imposed taxes in the Philippines have affected the prices of consumption varieties and plausibly because of deep habits, the pricing policies of firms have become dynamic. Building upon the seminal model of Ravn, Schmitt-Grohe, and Uribe (2006), this note shows that preference structures do have a key role to play in determining the response of private consumption to endogenous fiscal policy. Results show that …

Can Government Bond Replace Rational Bubbles? The Empirical Investigation On Singapore And Thailand, Athakrit Thepmongkol, Pichet Kaytanyaluk

DLSU Business & Economics Review

This paper aims to test the theoretical policy implication on rational bubbles. Many works, including Caballero and Krishnamurthy (2006), Kocherlakota (2009), and Martin and Ventura (2011), suggested that government bonds can rule out rational bubbles. We constructed our own bubble index using the Fourier transformation technique and, as a result, found the empirical support of the theory in the case of Singapore, but not in the case of Thailand. For the case of Singapore, the credibility in an ability to collect tax and the appropriate yield of government bonds are keys to the effectiveness of such the anti-bubble policy. Moreover, …

How Does Value Relevance Of Accounting Information React To Financial Crisis?, Karl Louis Eugenio, Rhobe Mitch Ailarie Parel, Katrina Marie Reyes, Keith Brian Yu, Cynthia Cudia

DLSU Business & Economics Review

The relevance of financial reports rests on the value relevance of accounting information. Since accounting information is value relevant only when used by investors to reflect stock valuations, it takes trust from the users of financial information over the financial statements. The heightened volatility of markets during periods of financial distress or crisis raises the imperative to determine the value of financial information during these periods. The great recession of 2008 also victimized East Asia, and firm strategies were influenced by resulting economic shocks. In this study, we aim to determine how value relevance of accounting information differ before, during, …

Impact Of Cash Holding On Foreign Institutional Holding In Large Manufacturing Companies In India: An Empirical Study, Souvik Banerjee

DLSU Business & Economics Review

Foreign institutions are playing a major role in a number of emerging market economies these days. In India, their investment acts as one of the cornerstones of market movement. In this research paper, it is explored whether cash holding levels have a bearing on the foreign institutional holding in large manufacturing companies in India. Various factors like size, profitability, growth opportunity, lifecycle, prior dividend payout, leverage,and so forth are controlled. Data is analyzed for a period of 16 years starting from the financial year 2000–01. The analysis is done in the form of panel data. The findings of the empirical …

Anticipating Aging And Prospecting Pension For Retirement Well-Being, Roberto E. Javier Jr., Mitzie Irene Conchada, Melvin Jabar

DLSU Business & Economics Review

Filipino young and middle-aged adults anticipate old age positively as it is a mark of achievement in human life but negatively apprehend living through their old age, given the high incidence of poverty among the elderly in the Philippines. The issues surrounding the insurance system, income security, and social pension in old age were all related to unfavorable views about living through the aging years. In-depth group interviews (IGIs) conducted across cities and municipalities in the countryside generated conceptions about aging and concerns about becoming old in a society with no strong social protection for its graying population. A qualitative …

Assessing The Poverty And Distributional Impact Of Alternative Rice Policies In The Philippines, Caesar B. Cororaton, Krista Danielle S. Yu

DLSU Business & Economics Review

Philippine domestic prices of rice are significantly higher than world prices for similar rice quality. The WTO- approved Philippine rice waiver, which allows the government to continue its quantitative restrictions on rice imports, sustains

the price gap in rice and prolongs the heavy burden on poor consumers who spend a significant amount of their income on rice. The results of rice policy simulations using a CGE model with poverty microsimulation indicate that a tariffication of the quantitative restrictions on rice imports, which maintains the level of protection to the local paddy farmers and the utilization of the generated revenue as …

Dataset 1: Mobile Text Dataset, Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson

Mobile Text Dataset and Language Models

This zip file contains the sentences mined from public web forums and blogs. Additional details about the dataset:

• The data is split into training, development, and test sets based on the original domain name the text was mined from.
• The sent_*.txt files are tab-delimited and contain one sentence parsed from a particular post. Each line contains the device name, forum software, device form factor (tablet or phone), and device input (touch or touch+key) associated with the post it was obtained from.
• The set's subdirectory contains the groupings used in Section 2.
• 64K word list (used in the paper), 5K and …

Information Technology 2019, Georgia Southern University Libraries

Program Accreditation Reports (2013-2023)

The Georgia Southern University Libraries, which are composed of the Lane Library and the Zach S. Henderson Library, are a major academic resource for three campuses, with their collections of scholarly books and journals, government publications, special book and manuscript collections, AV materials, and links to networked information resources in various electronic formats. These electronic resources are easily accessible both on and off campus 24/7.

Hedge, Jessina Leonard, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Pockets, Meichen Liu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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& 100 Times That!, Dexter Mcchesney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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The Adventures Of Yasuke: East Africa To Japan, Jessica Okello, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Alphabet Soup, Angelina Pei, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Leaving The Swamp, Jessica Perkins, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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命 (Destiny), Ruyue Qi, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Carry With, Carmen Ribaudo, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Long-Spined Sea Urchins, William Roth, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Interior Design Exploration, Deborah Sabo, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Disregard, Neglect, Acknowledgment, Bartlomiej Saminski, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

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Flatland, Olivia Schroder, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

No abstract provided.

Keep The Family Together, Olivia Stoltzfus, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

GRAND PURCHASE PRIZE WINNER $500 | Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection.

Into The Deep, Kevin Wu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

No abstract provided.

2019: 20-21, Stephanie Wu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020

LAURIE WHITEHILL PURCHASE PRIZE $375 | Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection.