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Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems is a systematic overview of assessment, evaluation, and prediction methods for the quality of services such as travel and touristic information, phone-directory and messaging, or telephone-banking services. A new taxonomy of quality-of-service is presented which serves as a tool for classifying assessment and evaluation methods, for planning and interpreting evaluation experiments, and for estimating quality. A broad overview of parameters and evaluation methods is given, both on a system-component level and for a fully integrated system. Three experimental investigations illustrate the relationships between system characteristics and perceived quality. The resulting information is needed in all phases of system specification, design, implementation, and operation. Although Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems is written from the perspective of an engineer in telecommunications, it is an invaluable source of information for professionals in signal processing, communication acoustics, computational linguistics, speech and language sciences, human factor design and ergonomics.

Mass communications --- Computer. Automation --- beeldverwerking --- informatica --- communicatietechnologie --- signaalverwerking

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This new edition is intended for a one semester course in optics for juniors and seniors in science and engineering; it uses scripts from Maple, MathCad, Mathematica, and MATLAB provide a simulated laboratory where students can learn by exploration and discovery instead of passive absorption. The text covers all the standard topics of a traditional optics course, including: geometrical optics and aberration, interference and diffraction, coherence, Maxwell's equations, wave guides and propagating modes, blackbody radiation, atomic emission and lasers, optical properties of materials, Fourier transforms and FT spectroscopy, image formation, and holography. It contains step by step derivations of all basic formulas in geometrical, wave and Fourier optics. The basic text is supplemented by over 170 files in Maple, MathCad, Mathematica, and MATLAB (many of which are in the text, each suggesting programs to solve a particular problem, and each linked to a topic in or application of optics. The computer files are dynamic, allowing the reader to see instantly the effects of changing parameters in the equations. Students are thus encouraged to ask "What if?" questions to asses the physical implications of the formulas. The discussion of Fourier transforms in particular is enhanced by the availability of numerical methods. The book is written for the study of particular projects but can easily be adapted to other situations. The threefold arrangement of text, applications, and files makes the book suitable for "self-learning" by scientists or engineers who would like to refresh their knowledge of optics.In the classroom, the Maple, MathCad, Mathematica, and MATLAB scripts can serve as starting points for homework; outside, they can help find solutions to complex problems in engineering applications. Some praise for the previous edition: OPTICS AND PHOTONICS NEWS [OCTOBER 2004] "This book cover geometrical optics, electromagnetic theory, interference, diffraction and coherence theory. Chapters on optical constants, blackbody radiation, emission and absorption, lasers, holography and Fourier transform spectroscopy broaden its scope. The packet contains over 170 MathCAD files linked to specific topics and applications. ¦ [T]he main virtues of the book are the excellent photographs of basic optical phenomena. ¦ The index is comprehensive. ¦ [The book] will certainly be helpful to ¦ students in an introductory optics course." THE PHYSICIST (March/April 2004) "The author has developed a suite of model programs covering the whole spectrum of optics from classical geometric ray to wave and modern optics. Illustrative resonator and waveguide modes are also part of the program mix as well as introductory laser theory. In addition to an optics course, this book would be useful in a 3rd or 4th year electromagnetism course as well as an introduction to lasers and resonators. There are certainly more topics in this text than could possibly be covered in the typical 30 hour one semester course. ... All formulas and diagrams are provided in Adobe .pdf files as well for transcription into other software suites or inclusion in notes. This book is a comprehensive optics text that has been written in a mode to encourage students to run the models, do the calculations and generate their own illustrations. ... The book would serve as an excellent text for undergraduate use and reference for laboratory simulation experiments."

Electromagnetism. Ferromagnetism --- Electronics and optics of solids --- Physics --- Spectrometric and optical chemical analysis --- Matlab (informatica) --- toegepaste wetenschappen --- lasers (technologie) --- fysica --- elektromagnetisme --- fysicochemie --- spectrometrie --- optica

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The new millennium is widely considered to be the age of globalisation, democratisation, and human rights. We live in a knowledge society and in a time of risk and uncertainty. World society is rapidly urbanising and ageing and exhausting its natural resources. It is the interplay of such key trends of the era that calls for a fresh approach to measuring quality of life. This collection of papers presents an innovative approach to evaluating living standards and wellbeing under the new circumstances facing individuals and societies in twenty-first century. Contributions cover a wide range of issues that impact positively and negatively on wellbeing in our age. While stability, trust, equal access to resources and the social integration of disadvantaged members of society enhance well-being, poverty, social exclusion, congestion in cities, HIV/AIDS and global warming pose threats to both modern and traditional lifestyles. Methodological refinements of conventional measurement tools are presented that take into consideration the rich diversity of lifestyles and values among different populations and regions of the world. This book will be essential reading for social scientists and ordinary citizens who are concerned about the future of human well-being on our planet.

Social sciences (general) --- Qualitative methods in social research --- Sociology --- sociologie --- sociale wetenschappen --- levenskwaliteit

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Breindidactiek is didactiek op basis van het functioneren van het brein. In dit boek worden een aantal mythes over het brein ontkracht en wordt recente wetenschappelijke breinkennis voorgesteld. Het boek wil die recente breinkennis aanbieden aan docenten om hun lessen te verbeteren aan de hand van twee benaderingen. Er worden 6 breinprincipes aangereikt om lessen te verrijken. Daarnaast wordt de ASOOO (autonomie, status, overtuigingen over de ontwikkelbaarheid) voorgesteld om leerlingen en studenten te motiveren tot leren. Deze 2 benaderingen worden voorzien van werkvormen, tips en 50 praktijkvoorbeelden van docenten.

pedagogische psychologie --- KHCA --- leren leren --- Pedagogische psychologie --- 450.8 --- Leren leren --- Methodiek van het studeren --- hersenfysiologie --- Educational psychology --- hersenen --- geheugen --- Hersenontwikkeling --- Didactiek --- Leren --- PXL-Central Office 2016 --- onderwijsdoelstellingen --- neuropsychologie --- cognitieve didactiek --- werkvormen --- Secondary education --- Orthopedagogics

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The real estate market in Germany has recovered remarkably well from 2008/09 crisis. Portfolio transactions, infrastructure projects as well as investments in commercial and residential real estate are on the rise. This publication provides investors, property developers and advisers with a practical guideline to the legal, tax and commercial framework for real estate investments in Germany.

Commercial law --- Business management --- handelsrecht --- management