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The system consists of a standard microprocessor and a hardware accelerator for Gaussian mixture model (GMM) emission probability calculation implemented on a field-programmable gate array. The GMM accelerator is optimized for timing performance by exploiting data parallelism. In order to avoid large memory requirement, the accelerator adopts a double buffering scheme for accessing the acoustic parameters with no assumption made on the access pattern of these parameters. Experiments on widely used benchmark data show that the real-time factor of the proposed system is 0.62, which is about three times faster than the pure software-based baseline system, while the word accuracy rate is preserved at 93.33%. As a part of the recognizer, a new adaptive beam-pruning algorithm is also proposed and implemented, which further reduces the average real-time factor to 0.54 with the word accuracy rate of 93.16%. The proposed speech recognizer is suitable for integration in various types of voice (speech)-controlled applications.

The data was collected after seeking approval from authorizes who were dealing with these cases under the United Nation AIDS Control Programs and Sindh AIDS Control Programs they provide list of different hospitals/ originations in Karachi Pakistan. Then 60 patients with HIV/AIDS were selected through purposive sampling technique. Basic information, NEO five factors Inventory (NEO –FFI) and Coping Responses Inventory Adult-Form (CRI-Adult Form) were administrated and responses were scored according to the procedure give in manuals.

Asingle-stepenvironmental friendly approach is employed to synthesize silver nanoparticles. The environmental friendly synthesis of nanoparticles process is a revolutionary step in the field of nanotechnology. In this study, the biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles was carried out using Glycyrrhiza Glabra root extract as reducing agent. UV–visible spectroscopy was used for quantification of silver nanoparticle synthesis. The synthesized silver nanoparticles were characterized with Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy dispersive X ray analysis (EDX), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).

Generally medicines must be stored and handled in accordance with the manufacturer’s guidelines in order to maintain the quality of the product. Storage outside the recommended temperature range can result in chemical and physical changes to the product which may lead to a loss of efficacy and may cause harm to the patients. In order to maintain such recommended temperatures we generally use vapour compression refrigeration systems. The main drawback is emission of CFC compounds (refrigerants) like R22 upon leakage which could produce harmful effects on environment like ozone depletion. This work aims at developing alternate system for producing refrigeration effect called Thermo Electric Refrigeration. Thermoelectric cooling devices utilize the Peltier effect, whereby the passage of a direct electric current through the junction of two dissimilar conducting materials causes the junction to either cool down (absorbing heat) or warm up (rejecting heat), depending on the direction of the current. Finally using this thermoelectric principle a cold storage is fabricated for preserving the medicines and tested. The minimum cooling temperatures obtained are 10°C at 36°C ambient temperature in 210 minutes that is 3 hours 30 minutes.

Comments on the electrodynamics of moving bodies by Albert Einstein is based on Trickeries (Open letter to Professors, Teachers, Researchers and Students of Physics)

Maritime industry provide the basis for the growth and development of marine-related activities such as: ocean and coastal shipping, port services, offshore oil and gas, inshore and offshore fisheries, marine culture, renewal energy (current, wave, wind), naval defence and other marine related activities that need competence human capital enrolment to manage, explore and exploit this resources in a sustainable manner. Maritime education provides competence, highly skill and professional worker mainly in the shipping and port sector. Even though the maritime industry is dynamically changing their environment (Facilities, technology and system), the present maritime educations are of traditional manner with limited capacity of maritime facilities such as ports and ships. Until now, not much on training work has been done at rationalising the number and optimizing the facilities in the maritime education due to the escalating of the cost to maintain these facilities. Therefore the aims of this paper are to determine the rationale to develop an offshore integrated teaching port as a new approach for the maritime education system. The system via simulation approach is a tool for teaching maritime students how to be a professional and ready to work on a real ship or port environment. This approach will offer alternatives to an audience or maritime students hungry for fresh thinking in the maritime studies with a fresh training angle. In this paper we will mimicry as closely as possible on real port environment, duplicating everything in the real port operation towards an innovative approach in the Maritime Education and to determine the rationale of designing offshore Teaching Port.

Metaphors are ubiquitous in language. When researching metaphor in everyday language, metaphor researchers firstly need to identify metaphor in everyday language. One way is that metaphor researchers turn to naturally-occurring language. The metaphoric language used in everyday language reveals the ideology of the specific historical period of society. In this respect, colour plays an important role in convention metaphorical expressions in people's lives and daily communication. As a sub-category of metaphors, colour terms are widely used literally and metaphorically in different languages and may also reflect cultural identities of language users. Taking cognitive linguistics into account (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), the present study aimed to investigate the metaphorical link which accounts for connotative meanings that is ascribed to colour terms. To do so, we collected Persian instances from some Persian dictionaries. The findings of this endeavor show that cultural orientations play a significant role in colour connotations in Persian, and subsequently filtering the relevant connotations of a particular metaphor.

This paper is aimed to discuss cordial graphs in the context of middle graph of a graph. We present here cordial labeling for the middle graphs of path, crown, star and tadpole.

Customer loyalty has become one of the key factors for strong company competitiveness. It has become a matter of concern, for both managers and researchers. Despite the relatively abundant literature on loyalty in Marketing, the notion of loyalty appears to be ambiguous. Our paper proposes a new conceptualization and an attempt to measure the concept of loyalty using a “relational approach”. It apprehends loyalty through customers’ responses towards “critical incidents” in the context of customer-bank relationships. In our research, we represent “critical incidents" by a “punctual dissatisfaction” and a “higher degree of competitiveness offered by competitors”. We use the Structural Equation Model to analyze the survey data given from 729 respondents from banks in Tunisia. The results have revealed five dimensions of customer loyalty: “tolerance of punctual dissatisfaction”, “resistance to competitors’ persuasion”, “integrative negotiation and claims”, “negative word of mouth”, and “opportunism”.

We are very happy to announce that from 30th June 2018, Dr. Jaber Ibrahim Saleh Abu Shawish has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Language and Linguistics. Dr. Jaber Ibrahim Saleh Abu Shawish working as professor, Al-Quds Open University, Alwosta Branch. The appointment of Dr. Jaber Ibrahim Saleh Abu Shawish as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com.