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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.

Automatic speech recognition. --- Telephone systems --- Quality control. --- Telephony --- Telecommunication systems --- Mechanical speech recognizer --- Speech recognition, Automatic --- Pattern recognition systems --- Perceptrons --- Speech, Intelligibility of --- Speech perception --- Speech processing systems --- Computer engineering. --- Telecommunication. --- Computer science. --- Electrical Engineering. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Computers --- Informatics --- Science --- Design and construction --- Electrical engineering. --- Signal processing. --- Image processing. --- Speech processing systems. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Modulation theory --- Oral communication --- Speech --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Electric engineering --- Engineering

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This book explores the physics, technology and applications of particle accelerators. It illustrates the interconnections between applications and basic physical principles, enabling readers to better understand current and upcoming technologies and see beyond the paradigmatic borders of the individual fields. The reader will discover why accelerators are no longer just toys for scientists, but have also become modern and efficient nuclear workhorses. The book starts with an introduction to the relevant technologies and radiation safety aspects of accelerating electrons and ions from several keV to roughly 250 MeV. It subsequently describes the physics behind the interactions of these particle beams with matter. Mathematical descriptions and state-of-the-art computer models of energy-loss and nuclear interactions between the particle beams and targets round out the physics coverage. On this basis, the book then presents the most important accelerator applications in science, medicine, and industry, explaining and comparing more than 20 major application fields, encompassing semiconductors, cancer treatment, and space exploration. Despite the disparate fields involved, this book demonstrates how the same essential technology and physics connects all of these applications.

Particle acceleration. --- Materials—Surfaces. --- Thin films. --- Physical measurements. --- Measurement   . --- Radiology. --- Nuclear energy. --- Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics. --- Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films. --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Nuclear Energy. --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Power resources --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation --- Measuring --- Mensuration --- Mathematics --- Technology --- Metrology --- Physical measurements --- Measurements, Physical --- Mathematical physics --- Measurement --- Films, Thin --- Solid film --- Solid state electronics --- Solids --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Coatings --- Thick films --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Acceleration (Mechanics) --- Acceleration --- Particle accelerators. --- Accelerators, Particle --- Atom smashers --- Charged particle accelerators --- Accelerator mass spectrometry --- Instruments

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"Kold, mork og beskidt, prAeget af overtro og brutalitet. Faktisk lige til historiens modding. Sadan tAenker vi tit pa middelalderen. Men den lagde ifolge Jorgen Moller, professor i statskundskab ved Aarhus Universitet, brostenene til nutidens Europa. For uden periodens genstridige adelsmAend, magtbegAerlige paver og griske kobmAend ville demokratier, retsstater og frie markedsokonomier aldrig have set dagens lys i Europa. Og Europa ville ikke vAere en mirakulos undtagelse fra historiens regel om korruption, elendighed og diktatur. Men nok bare en by i Rusland."--

Moyen Âge. --- Middle Ages. --- Europe. --- Europe --- Europe --- Histoire --- History

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18 namhafte Historiker und Historikerinnen beleuchten erstmals das Verhältnis Willy Brandts zu Frankreich seit seinen ersten Besuchen in Paris in den 1930er Jahren bis zu seinem Tod. Dies geschieht im Wechsel zwischen französischer und deutscher Perspektive, ein methodischer Ansatz, der sich als äußerst fruchtbar erweist.

Außenpolitik. --- Brandt, Willy. --- Frankreich. --- Zeitgeschichte. --- Brandt, Willy, --- Germany --- France --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government

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This pioneering book develops definitions and concepts related to Quality of Experience in the context of multimedia- and telecommunications-related applications, systems and services, and applies these to various fields of communication and media technologies. The editors bring together numerous key-protagonists of the new discipline “Quality of Experience” and combine the state-of-the-art knowledge in one single volume. .

User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Human-computer interaction. --- Application software --- Design. --- Development. --- Computer science. --- Telecommunication. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Informatics --- Science --- Development of application software --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- Human engineering --- User-centered system design --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Signal processing. --- Image processing. --- Speech processing systems. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Electrical engineering. --- Electric engineering --- Engineering --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Modulation theory --- Oral communication --- Speech --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication)