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Subword-based Stochastic Segment Modeling for Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition [PDF]
In this paper, we describe several experiments in which we use a stochastic segment model (SSM) to improve offline handwriting recognition (OHR) performance. We use the SSM to re-rank (re-score) multiple decoder hypotheses.
Cao, Huaigu +4 more
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Time Varying Risk Aversion: An Application to Energy Hedging [PDF]
, 2009 Risk aversion is a key element of utility maximizing hedge strategies; however, it has typically been assigned an arbitrary value in the literature. This paper instead applies a GARCH-in-Mean (GARCH-M) model to estimate a time-varying measure of risk ...
Cotter, John, Hanly, Jim
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Journal of Chemical Technology &Biotechnology, EarlyView.Abstract BACKGROUND Chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons such as trichloroethylene (TCE) are persistent groundwater contaminants due to improper disposal and low biodegradability. This work presents an innovative bioelectrochemical system for the integrated reductive/oxidative removal of TCE from contaminated water, implemented in a single tubular ...
Maria Presutti +5 more
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Microbial Cell Factories, 2018 Background Corynebacterium glutamicum is a well-known producer of various l-amino acids in industry. During the fermenting process, C. glutamicum unavoidably encounters oxidative stress due to a specific reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by ...
Meiru Si +7 more
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The Risk Culture Scale: A Measurement Tool to Comprehensively Assess Banks’ Risk Culture
Abacus, EarlyView.In the wake of recent financial crises and scandals, risk culture has increasingly become the focus of various actors, such as supervisors, financial service providers, academics, and consultants. While it is acknowledged that a proper risk culture is needed to make banks safer, as an intangible, organizational, and social phenomenon, risk culture is ...
Niclas Dürst, Jennifer Kunz
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A study on the relationship between odor hedonic ratings and individual odor detection threshold
Scientific Reports, 2022 Odor hedonic perception (pleasant/unpleasant character) is considered as the first and one of the most prominent dimensions in olfaction and is known to depend on several parameters.
Charlotte Bontempi +2 more
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Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives Understudied populations such as those with intellectual disabilities (ID) face significant disease burden and oral health disparities. Systematic exclusion from oral health research contributes to resultant health inequalities, limits understanding of the determinants and implications of disease, and hinders the ability to improve ...
Katrina Byrne +4 more
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Expansion of the public sector, the current account and the exchange rate [PDF]
, 2008 Attributing the foreign trade effects of an expansion in the state budget to a single cause cannot do justice to the multitude of macro-economic interrelationships.
Ohr, Renate
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Parkinson's Disease and Salivary Issues: A Survey
Gerodontology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Salivary dysfunction, including xerostomia and drooling, is common in Parkinson's disease and further impairs oral health and quality of life, which are already compromised in this population. Their effective management demands deeper insight into the complexity of salivary dysfunction.
Beau D. M. van Dijk +3 more
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European Monetary Union at ten: Had the German Maastricht critics been wrong? [PDF]
, 2009 Against the background of the euro-sceptic view many German economists expressed during the 1990ies and the traditional as well as modern debate on the optimum currency area the outcomes of the first ten years of the European Monetary Union are analysed.
Ohr, Renate
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