Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection ALBAYZIN 2012 evaluation: overview, systems, results, and discussion

Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection (QbE STD) aims at retrieving data from a speech data repository given an acoustic query containing the term of interest as input. Nowadays, it has been receiving much interest due to the high volume of information stored in audio or audiovisual format. QbE STD differs from automatic speech recognition (ASR) and keyword spotting (KWS)/spoken term detection (STD) since ASR is interested in all the terms/words that appear in the speech signal and KWS/STD relies on a textual transcription of the search term to retrieve the speech data. This paper presents the systems submitted to the ALBAYZIN 2012 QbE STD evaluation held as a part of ALBAYZIN 2012 evaluation campaign within the context of the IberSPEECH 2012 Conference(a). The evaluation consists of retrieving the speech files that contain the input queries, indicating their start and end timestamps within the appropriate speech file. Evaluation is conducted on a Spanish spontaneous speech database containing a set of talks from MAVIR workshops(b), which amount at about 7 h of speech in total. We present the database metric systems submitted along with all results and some discussion. Four different research groups took part in the evaluation. Evaluation results show the difficulty of this task and the limited performance indicates there is still a lot of room for improvement. The best result is achieved by a dynamic time warping-based search over Gaussian posteriorgrams/posterior phoneme probabilities. This paper also compares the systems aiming at establishing the best technique dealing with that difficult task and looking for defining promising directions for this relatively novel task.

Recent Developments in In Situ Nutrient Sensors: applications and future directions, Savannah, Georgia, December 11-13, 2006: workshop proceedings

The Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) convened a Workshop on "Recent Developments in In Situ Nutrient Sensors: Applications and Future Directions" from 11-13 December, 2006. The workshop was held at the Georgia Coastal Center in Savannah, Georgia, with local coordination provided by the ACT partner at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (University System of Georgia). Since its formation in 2000, ACT partners have been conducting workshops on various sensor technologies and supporting infrastructure for sensor systems. This was the first workshop to revisit a topic area addressed previously by ACT. An earlier workshop on the "State of Technology in the Development and Application of Nutrient Sensors" was held in Savannah, Georgia from 10-12 March, 2003. Participants in the first workshop included representatives from management, industry, and research sectors. Among the topics addressed at the first workshop were characteristics of "ideal" in situ nutrient sensors, particularly with regard to applications in coastal marine waters. In contrast, the present workshop focused on the existing commercial solutions. The in situ nutrient sensor technologies that appear likely to remain the dominant commercial options for the next decade are reagent-based in situ auto-analyzers (or fluidics systems) and an optical approach (spectrophotometric measurement of nitrate). The number of available commercial systems has expanded since 2003, and community support for expanded application and further development of these technologies appears warranted. Application in coastal observing systems, including freshwater as well as estuarine and marine environments, was a focus of the present workshop. This included discussion of possible refinements for sustained deployments as part of integrated instrument packages and means to better promote broader use of nutrient sensors in observing system and management applications. The present workshop also made a number of specific recommendations concerning plans for a demonstration of in situ nutrient sensor technologies that ACT will be conducting in coordination with sensor manufacturers.[PDF contains 40 pages]

Report on third FIDAWOG Workshop held at the Triangle Hotel, Jinja, 29 March to 1 April 1999: summary of proceedings

The FIDAWOG workshop held from 29 March to 1 April 1999 in Jinja was the third major stock assessment workshop attended by most of the participants during the project. It followed two workshops, each of which lasted three weeks, held in 1998.

El deporte como medio para el fomento de la deportividad: un programa educativo en centros escolares alaveses

LCC Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 España

Das europäisches Netzwerk zur Koordination der Altersbestimmung bei Fischen: European Fish Ageing Network (EFAN)

Financial support is going to be applied for from the European Commission in order to establish the European Fish Ageing Network (EFAN). The project, which was planned and initiated from Norway (Floedevigen) is supposed to be a concerted action from 14 European Countries involving about 35 institutions. The primary aim of the network is to coordinate the research in age reading, especially the improvement of data bases for reference material, the transformation of research (e.g. daily ring formation in otoliths) to each interested reader. Moreover, the applied financial support is supposed to be preliminary spent for travel of researcher and technicians to other institutes where the same fish species are aged. Reference material is supposed to be sent to the institutes for check-reading. Specific workshops will be held in cases where heterogeneous results occur from check-reading the reference material.

Contribuição para a elaboração de um sistema de gestão ambiental dos diques de manutenção e reparo do Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro

A Baía de Guanabara, ambiente de localização do Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro (AMRJ), sofre com a intensa pressão antrópica, principalmente no aspecto da qualidade das águas. Neste contexto, uma fração considerável da poluição decorre das atividades dos estaleiros, uma vez que a atividade industrial naval no Rio de Janeiro não tem mecanismo de controle de poluição à altura do seu real potencial poluidor. Esta ausência de fiscalização possibilita o lançamento na Baía de resíduos sólidos, esgotos sanitários, efluentes químicos, oleosos e tóxicos, tornando crescente a contaminação dessas águas, margens e mangues. Estes descartes cada vez mais são alvo das exigências ambientais da sociedade e das legislações. Devido a isto, a gestão de efluentes líquidos do Arsenal tornou-se prioritária, para tal, esse estudo foi proposto, tendo iniciado pela análise das oficinas do estaleiro, na qual as operações no dique foram identificadas como uma das mais impactantes do estaleiro. A partir desta constatação, estão apresentadas duas fontes de pesquisas para a redução dos impactos. Na primeira etapa, há o estudo das atividades geradoras de efluentes no dique de reparo, com os objetivos de propor a implantação das diretrizes de melhores práticas de gestão, de minimizar a geração de efluentes líquidos e de contribuir para a adoção de práticas ambientais proativas. Como segunda pesquisa, com base nas tecnologias mundiais, há a proposta de tratamento dos efluentes de um dique, na qual foram identificados os processos que irão atender às necessidades ambientais do estaleiro, com as opções de escolha entre o tratamento parcial, para o descarte na rede pública, ou com o prosseguimento do processo até o seu reúso. As conclusões deste estudo apontam para a implantação da gestão ambiental do dique sistematizada, rigorosa e integrada com a gestão das embarcações, acrescentando-se a isto, as necessidades de incorporação de tecnologias modernas e de sistema de tratamento dos efluentes, propiciando de maneira sustentável que haja a continuação do processo de produção do estaleiro e, ao mesmo tempo, permitindo o retorno da biodiversidade da Baía de Guanabara.

Agentes comunitários de saúde e os desafios da educação permanente: reflexões sobre a experiência do Programa Telessaúde Brasil Núcleo Rio de Janeiro

Este estudo traz uma reflexão sobre os desafios de educação permanente dos Agentes comunitários de Saúde inseridos no projeto Telessaúde/Rio de Janeiro. Temos como objetivo geral discutir o processo de educação permanente desses colaboradores inseridos no Projeto Telessaúde, Núcleo Rio de Janeiro, ressaltando os usos reais e potenciais das ferramentas da educação à distância, na perspectiva da educação crítica. Os objetivos específicos são: descrever o perfil demográfico de utilização de ferramentas de educação permanente a distância de Agente comunitário de saúde (ACS) do Estado do Rio de Janeiro inseridos no Telessaúde RJ, segundo as regiões administrativas do Rio de Janeiro; descrever e analisar a participação dos ACS no Telessaúde RJ durante o ano de 2009 nas atividades de teleconferências; discutir, com base na participação dos ACS no Telessaúde RJ, o papel da mediação da internet e das ferramentas do Telessaúde RJ no seu trabalho, na perspectiva pedagógica crítica. A metodologia utilizada é quali-quantitativa, no intuito de descrever, quantificar e classificar os dados em relação aos ACS que estão inseridos no Telessaúde. A coleta de dados se deu a partir de um relatório das oficinas presenciais e da análise de 100 formulários preenchidos pelos ACS nos workshops realizados nas regiões administrativas do Rio de Janeiro e no registro de teleconferências. Resultados: o relatório das oficinas nos mostrou que os ACS vêem no Telessaúde não só um espaço para troca de experiências, mas também para a educação permanente em serviço. Foi evidenciando na análise dos formulários, que a faixa etária na amostra de 100 dos ACS é de 23 a 38 anos com 59 ACS. Além disso, observou-se que os ACS utilizam a internet diariamente, com predominância do vinculo empregatício por CLT, acessam SIAB e DATASUS com frequência, realizam trabalho multidisciplinar com médicos e enfermeiros, propõem temas para capacitações pelo Telessaúde, em relação à assistência às teleconferências de 555 ACS no ano de 2009. Concluímos que a inserção do ACS no Telessaúde, com vistas à educação permanente, é uma real possibilidade e o estudo nos mostrou que eles vêem esta proposta do Ministério da Saúde como inovadora e viável.

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Recent appointments in Washington office. El Niño volume available. Ira Wiggins dies. Nominations to the Royal Society. Index to Noticias de Galápagos. Dictionaries wanted - used or new. International workshops focus on Galápagos.

An alternative management strategy for Lake Victoria (Kenya)

In Kenya, fisheries resource management has been based on the top-down centralized approach since the colonial days. Stakeholders have never been consulted concerning management decisions. The 4-beaches Study was undertaken to investigate the potential for an alternative management system for Lake Victoria.

The 4-beaches survey in Uganda: Nkombe Beach

This paper analyses the location, potentialities and set-backs of Nkombe Beach, the landing site chosen in Uganda for the 4-beaches survey.

Co-managerial potentials for Tanzania's Lake Victoria fisheries perspectives from two landing sites

Two landing sites were chosen in Tanzania for the 4-beaches survey. The former, Ihale, is a large one with an avarage of 120 boats and direct connections to the fish processing factories. The latter, Mwasonge, is one of the smallest landing sites in the Mwanza region with totally different characteristics. This book section aims to analyse the results from these two sites in the context of the co-management potentialities in Tanzania and more generally on the Lake Victoria region.

The Jinja Stakeholders' Workshop, February 21st -23rd, 2001

This book section is a review of a workshop, the one held at Jinja in Uganda, which aimed to assess the potential local stakeholders within the frame of the co-management of Lake Victoria's fisheries.

The Bondo Stakeholders' Workshop, February 26th - 27th, 2001

This paper is a review of the workshop held at Bondo in Kenya to assess the role of local stakeholders in the of co-management of Lake Victoria's fisheries within the frame of the LVFRP.

The Mwanza Stakeholders' Workshop, February 1st - 3rd March, 2001

This book section aims to give an overview of the Stakeholders' Workshop taken at Mwanza (Tanzania) to evaluate the role and potentials of local stakeholders, in relation to the co-management of Lake Victoria's fisheries within the frame of the LVFRP.

Conclusions

This short paper aims to give an overview of all the conclusions and recommendations related to the 4-beaches Survey and the Stakeholders' Workshops held in all the three Lake Victoria riparian countries within the frame of the LVFRP.