The behavior of several windows in relation to time delay and spectral estimation is analyzed in its application to CELP coders, with emphasis on time delay considerations. From the data, the importance of Asymmetric Windows in such context becomes evident. In order to get objective…
Information of relevance to human failure was extracted from the first 2,000 incidents reported to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study (AIMS). All reports were searched for human factors amongst the "factors contributing," "factors minimising", and "suggested corrective strategies" categories, and these were classified according to…
This paper describes some of the work on stereo that has been going on at INRIA in the last four years. The work has concentrated on obtaining dense, accurate and reliable range maps of the environment at rates compatible with the real-time constraints of such…
One of the key factors limiting the use of neural networks in many industrial applications has been the difficulty of demonstrating that a trained network will continue to generate reliable outputs once it is in routine use. An important potential source of errors arises from…
Visual representations are chosen to meet the requirements of specified tasks such as object recognition or stereoscopic matching. When vision is regarded as a haptic sense, a new operational description is called for, in support of desirous manipulation. In the content of two-fingered grasp, an…
We present a new model, based on monads, for performing input/output in a non-strict, purely functional language. It is composable, extensible, efficient, requires no extensions to the type system, and extends smoothly to incorporate mixed-language working and in-place array updates.
This chapter discusses how to determine the relation that holds between nouns in a noun sequence. For natural language understanding, a system must be able to discover, for example, that there is a Locative relation in “vegetable market” but not in “lemon peel,” which contains,…
The tokamak is currently the principal magnetic confinement system for controlled fusion research. In seeking to understand the physics of the high temperature plasma inside the tokamak, it is important to have detailed information on the spatial distribution of electron density. One technique for density…
Dual-energy gamma densitometry offers a powerful technique for the non-intrusive analysis of multiphase flows. By employing multiple beam lines, information on the phase configuration can be obtained. Once the configuration is known, it then becomes possible in principle to determine the phase fractions. In practice,…
This review discusses the psychology of human error in the context of anesthesia. The authors provide definitions of, and describe the relationships between, errors, incidents, and accidents while drawing examples from the Australian Incident Monitoring Study. They explore a classification system for errors, including discussion…
Amongst the first 2000 incidents reported to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study, there were 144 incidents in which the “wrong drug” was nearly or actually administered to a patient. Thirty-three percent of the incidents involved ampoules and just over 40% syringes; in over half of…
