“Thoughts” on Redistribution and Recognition The ideas of redistribution and recognition by Fraser‚ really intrigued me to further my thoughts on these concepts. Fraser explains that recognition can be a cultural group looking for recognition of difference whereas redistribution is classified as a transfer or reduction of socioeconomic classes. This made me wonder‚ does redistribution include a progression of taxes according to income? If this is true‚ I can see a strong indication of how this
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Pattern recognition is a useful tool for mathematics‚ mathematical visualization‚ and art. After a brief description of Bongard’s methodology in the field of pattern recognition‚ the author introduces the concept of colour modularity and evaluates how it affects pattern recognition classification. Combining Bongard’s methodology and colour modularity‚ the author attains a richer‚ more persuasive dynamic in pattern description and recognition of five- and ten-pointed star polygons.". Keywords: pattern
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said Jackie Fenn‚ a Fellow in emerging trends and technologies for Gartner‚ a market research firm. GESTURE-RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY In the early 1960s‚ users could move a light-emitting pen to control the Sketchpad computer-aided design system. Several subsequent commercial systems also worked with light-emitting pens. Research into camera-based computer vision for gesture recognition began in earnest in the early 1990s at places such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab‚ Japan’s
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in which the operators repeat the words of the hearing party into an automatic speech recognition system for rapid transcription. Voice and data are carried on one line so that the hard of hearing or deaf user can monitor the speech as well as see the transcription. The CapTel phone is set up for "dial through" so that the user does not need to dial the relay service first. -ASR Automatic speech recognition is the most successful and accurate of these applications. It is currently making a
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words and their influence on the pronunciation variation. Finally we report phone recogni- tion experiments using the modified HMM topologies. 1. INTRODUCTION Modeling of pronunciation variations in conversational speech is essential for speech recognition as well as speech synthe- sis. The state-of-art speech synthesis systems are built using unit selection databases of carefully read speech recorded in a controlled environment. While these systems produce high quality natural speech they produce
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Facial recognition technology is a very well-known technology because of the high security it provides to crucial businesses and government agencies. According to the FBI this technology was‚ "Developed in the 1960s‚ the first semi-automated system for facial recognition required the administrator to locate features (such as eyes‚ ears‚ nose‚ and mouth) on photographs before it calculated distances and ratios to a common reference point" (Facial Recognition). Government agencies and crucial companies
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example‚ patients CK who lost ability to recognize objects after a car accident performed perfectly on the tasks of face recognition. () Meanwhile‚ many cases of patients who suffered prosopagnosia‚ their ability of object identification remains intact. It suggests there is a double dissociation between face and object recognition. Although it helps us to know face and object recognition may not activate the same region of the brain areas‚ we do not know yet which areas are responsible to them respectively
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human-machine interactions by speech. During oral interactions with computers‚ communication problems often arise after the occurrence of errors during the recognition phase. Sometimes these errors cannot be solved by the semantic module: the utterances containing them are interpreted by the semantic analyser‚ but with an information content different from the speaker ’s intended meaning. Detecting such miscommunications and repairing them through initialization of appropriate repair subdialogues
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’There are various degrees of recognition in tragedy. In Othello‚ recognition is minimal: the protagonist learns what he has done and what he has lost‚ but learns little or nothing about himself.’’ How far do you agree? – This is a quote that I have adapted into my thesis‚ taken from ‘’A Book of literary terms’’. Anagnorisis‚ a Greek word meaning ‘’recognition’’‚ is described by Aristotle as ‘’a change from ignorance to knowledge’’. I agree with this statement as‚ in the play Othello‚ Othello’s
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Handout Cases on Revenue Recognition CASE 1 The Sea-Soft Water Company distributes its water softeners to dealers upon their request. The contract agreement with the dealers is that they may have 90 days to sell and pay for the softeners. Until the 90-day period is over‚ any softeners may be returned at the dealer’s expense and with no further obligations on the dealer’s part. If the water softeners are damaged while in the hands of a dealer‚ Sea-Soft agrees to accept the return of the
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