639 research outputs found
A speech understanding and dialog system with a homogeneous linguistic knowledge base
No full textMast M, Kummert F, Ehrlich U, et al. A speech understanding and dialog system with a homogeneous linguistic knowledge base. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. 1994;16(2):179-194.This article presents the speech understanding and dialog system EVAR. All levels of linguistic knowledge are used both to control the analysis process and for the interpretation of an utterance. All kinds of knowledge are integrated in a homogeneous knowledge base. The control algorithm used for the analysis is defined within the representation scheme and does not depend on the application. One of the aims of EVAR is to develop a system structure where linguistic and non-linguistic expectations could be used not only for the interpretation but also as predictions for the recognition process
Üllas Ehrlich – 60 (9.12.1963)
No full textCo-organiser and long-term active participant of our conferences (since 2010), author,peer reviewer and editor of the journal Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy,professor of the Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) Dr Üllas Ehrlich – 60 years(09.12.2023).Üllas Ehrlich was Estonia's first and until now the only professor of environmentaleconomics in 2009 until the chair and professorship were abolished in 2020. He was oneof the first to lay the foundation for financial evaluation of non-market ecosystemservices in Estonia.In addition, his lesser-known field of activity is cost-benefit analyses of largeinfrastructure objects. For example, the section of the Kukruse-Jõhvi four-lane road, thereconstructed exit of the Tallinn-Tartu road and the connection road to the deep harborin Saaremaa are based on his profitability calculations.We wish our productive and hard-working colleague good health, success and happinessin his future activities
Toward valid and reliable brain imaging results in eating disorders
No full textHuman brain imaging can help improve our understanding of mechanisms underlying brain function and how they drive behavior in health and disease. Such knowledge may eventually help us to devise better treatments for psychiatric disorders. However, the brain imaging literature in psychiatry and especially eating disorders has been inconsistent, and studies are often difficult to replicate. The extent or severity of extremes of eating and state of illness, which are often associated with differences in, for instance hormonal status, comorbidity, and medication use, commonly differ between studies and likely add to variation across study results. Those effects are in addition to the well-described problems arising from differences in task designs, data quality control procedures, image data preprocessing and analysis or statistical thresholds applied across studies. Which of those factors are most relevant to improve reproducibility is still a question for debate and further research. Here we propose guidelines for brain imaging research in eating disorders to acquire valid results that are more reliable and clinically useful
Secteur privé ou secteur de l'économie individuelle
No full textPrivate or Individual Economie Sector.
Here the problem is treated of how to organize services to the population which depend on different economic sectors (state, cooperative or private). The author considers that the unpopular connotation given to the "private" sector is no longer valid. .
-The individual economic sector in Poland occupies millions of peasants, some 379,000 artisans and a number, difficult to evaluate, of fruit growers, chauffeurs, shop and restaurant keepers, etc. Ehrlich considers it unjustified to maintain this sector in a marginal economic position on the grounds that it constitutes private ownership of the means of production.
The author deplores the replacement of small industry, particularly in the field of services, by gigantic firms which are out of touch with consumer demand, needs, etc. He recommends development of the cooperative and individual sectors, the decentralization of economic decisions of local character and the extension of state allocations of certain goods and services (raw materials, credit, information on technical progress, etc.) which would permit the integration of the individual sector in socialist economy.L'auteur soulève le problème des services à la population organisés dans le cadre d'unités appartenant aux différents secteurs de l'économie: étatique, coopératif et « privé ». Ce dernier terme a longtemps conservé une connotation péjorative qui, pour l'auteur, n'est plus fondée à l'heure actuelle.
Le secteur de l'économie individuelle occupe une place importante en Pologne puisqu'il regroupe des millions de paysans, quelque 370 000 artisans et un nombre difficile à évaluer d'arboriculteurs, de chauffeurs, de commerçants, de restaurateurs, etc. Pour Ehrlich, il devient absolument injustifié de maintenir ce secteur en marge de l'économie socialiste en fonction du seul critère de la propriété des moyens de production.
L'auteur défend la petite industrie dont l'abandon au profit des entreprises géantes a été néfaste, notamment dans le domaine des services (éloignement du consommateur, mauvaise estimation de ses besoins, etc.). Il recommande une stabilisation et un développement des secteurs coopératif et individuel ainsi qu'une décentralisation des décisions économiques justifiée par le caractère local de la petite production et des services. Il prône également une extension des différentes formes d'aide de l'Etat (matériaux, crédits, information sur les progrès techniques en ce domaine, etc.) de manière à permettre un développement du secteur individuel, intégré dans l'ensemble de l'économie socialiste. , -,Ehrlich S. Secteur privé ou secteur de l'économie individuelle. In: Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, vol. 6, 1975, n°2. pp. 61-71
Marcadores moleculares en la histogénesis de la retina: una aproximación utilizando anticuerpos monoclonales
No full textTribunal: Ricardo Ehrlich, Alberto Nieto, Angela Subur
Animated realities: from animated documentaries to documentary animation
No full textMy thesis on contemporary animated documentaries links new media aesthetics with
the documentary turn in contemporary visual culture. Drawing from the fields of
Contemporary Art, Animation, Film Studies and Gaming Theory, my aim has been to
explore the development of animated documentaries in the context of animation's
intersection with other visual fields in a very specific technological moment of the
past two decades in order to broaden the scope within which animation is analysed
and understood.
The starting point of my research was the widely accepted divide assumed to exist
between animation and documentary. I, however, claim that the supposedly
contradictory nature of animated documentaries can no longer be considered a given.
Despite the potentially challenging reception of animated documentaries, it is
important to identify what it is that the animated image contributes to documentary,
which is the visualisation of what is otherwise un-representable. My thesis
investigates a new area of the intangible, focusing on the virtualisation of culture
rather than on subjective or imaginary aspects of documentary works and visual
interpretations. This cultural shift consequently requires new aesthetics of
documentation that exceed the capacities of the photographic. My main argument is
that due to contemporary technological changes, animation has permeated real
contexts of daily life to the extent that it has become disassociated from the realm of
fiction. Rather, in altering the way viewers are becoming accustomed to observing,
learning about and connecting with reality, animation has brought about a constitutive
change in ways of seeing one's world. This change can be described as animation’s
impact on the relation between visual signification and believability. It is this which
necessitates a reconsideration of what shapes a sense of realism in documentaries
today. My research therefore culminates with new conceptualisations concerning the
cultural role of animation, introducing what I argue is the formation of the "animated
document" and "documentary animation". In these contexts, animation is no longer an
interpretive visualisation substituting for photography but a direct capturing of
animated realities. Animation thus expands what is considered to constitute reality
and, as a result, also destabilises assumptions about the perceived conflict between
animation and documentary, widening the sphere of documentary aesthetics
Medullary Sponge Kidney: Patients’ Perspectives of Quality of Life and Occupation
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 4/1/2017
This qualitative study explored patient perspectives of quality of life and occupations of people with medullary sponge kidney (MSK). Analysis of open-ended surveys from Facebook support group members revealed that people with MSK, a chronic condition, define QOL as participation in valued occupations.
Primary Author and Speaker: Jessica Leer
Contributing Authors: Jeremy Klimek, Olivia Ehrlich, Barbara Kornblau, Debora Oliveira</jats:p
The Recorder, by David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2022, xiv + 372 pp., ISBN-978-0-30011-870-4 (hardback), ISBN978-0-30027-064-8 (e-book)
No full textThe Recorder by David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich is a comprehensive and definitive work that dives deep into the history, development, and cultural significance of one of the world’s most enduring musical instruments. The book is the pinnacle of Lasocki’s lifetime of research into the recorder, its music, and its players, with important contributions by his co-author Robert Ehrlich and by Nikolaj Tarasov, and an epilogue by recorder virtuoso Michala Petri
Understanding the significance of the social determinants of health on the outcome of complicated surgical neonates at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.The United Nations Millennium Declaration conference held in September of 2000, set key Millennium Development Goals. Millennium Development Goal 4 requires a reduction in the mortality rate of children under the age of five years by two-thirds by the year 2015, from a baseline in 1990. In South Africa, it has been recognised that without a substantial reduction in neonatal deaths, MDG-4 will not be met. This study will focus on the social determinants of health which play a key role in neonatal outcome in South Africa. It will evaluate the effects of these social determinants of health (Primary caregiver's education level, Primary caregiver's age, and Living Standards Measure) on the outcome of neonates admitted to, and operated on, in the general surgery unit of Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCWMCH), within the Western Cape, South Africa. This study is based on the hypothesis that there is an association between Neonatal outcome, and a selection of social variables, namely: primary caregiver's level of education, primary caregiver' age, and LSM. The protocol (Part A) describes the sampling methodology that was used during the intervention. This will be followed by a literature review (Part B), Article (Part C), and Appendix (Part D)
The international relations as construed by Ludwik Ehrlich
No full textThe article aims to address the following questions: how did L. Ehrlich perceive the study of international relations, and, if he embraced a specific theory of international relations in his investigative approach, which theory actually was it? In line with the so-called contextual approach, developed within the framework of the studies on the history of ideas, assuming that respective academic investigators should effectively reflect in their research the times in which they actually live, the two hypotheses were put forward, i.e. (1) Ehrlich construed the International Relations as an interdisciplinary area of knowledge, and (2) followed the theories being developed in his own time, i.e. liberal internationalism and classical realism. The first part of the text focuses on Ehrlich’s biography in terms of how he actually related himself to the above-referenced area of knowledge. Then his concept of the International Relations is discussed. The Author adopted a case study research strategy, as well as applied the qualitative analysis method in approaching all textual material. The first part of the paper made use of available scientific studies, while the Ehrlich’s monograph entitled Introduction to the International Relations (1947) was mined for the second part. In the conclusions section the first hypothesis was upheld, as Prof. Ehrlich’s reflections on the interdisciplinary character of the International Relations are actually a part of the dominant perspective embraced in the interwar period. At the same time, the second hypothesis failed to be confirmed, as Ehrlich never in fact put forward a clear and coherent theory of international relations. Instead of following the dominant theoretical positions of his own time, his thought is found to incorporate the components of a diversity of concepts, including not only the two theories typical of that time but also the theory of international society. In view of the fact that some of those ideas appear to be a decade and more ahead of the times when Ehrlich drafted his own works, his entire research must be assessed in terms of the extent to which such innovative thinking was actually espoused by him at the time
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