Exploring and exploiting a historical corpus for Arabic

This paper presents a historical Arabic corpus named HAC. At this early embryonic stage of the project, we report about the design, the architecture and some of the experiments which we have conducted on HAC. The corpus, and accordingly the search results, will be represented using a primary XML exchange format. This will serve as an intermediate exchange tool within the project and will allow the user to process the results offline using some external tools. HAC is made up of Classical Arabic texts that cover 1600 years of language use; the Quranic text, Modern Standard Arabic texts, as well as a variety of monolingual Arabic dictionaries. The development of this historical corpus assists linguists and Arabic language learners to effectively explore, understand, and discover interesting knowledge hidden in millions of instances of language use. We used techniques from the field of natural language processing to process the data and a graph-based representation for the corpus. We provided researchers with an export facility to render further linguistic analysis possible.     

Emotional Loneliness and Coping Strategies: A Reference to Older Malaysians at Nursing Homes

This article presents an in-depth qualitative study using a phenomenological approach to understand loneliness among elderly individuals in Malaysia. The objective of the study was to understand how the Malaysian elderly perceive and understand social isolation as well as loneliness, with the aim of identifying the factors that cause emotional loneliness among the elderly in nursing homes. In addition, this study also explored their coping strategies when dealing with loneliness. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten elderly participants from two different nursing homes in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor with representatives from the three major ethnic groups of Malaysia. Based on the results, there are several factors that cause the elderly to feel lonely – health factors, lack of family ties, and the lack of communication and cognitive factors, such as memory and perception. It was also found that internal (expectations and optimism) and external (work and activities) coping strategies play major roles in overcoming loneliness. In conclusion, some recommendations are made to respective party families and the government to consider when developing plans to help the elderly overcome loneliness, which could strengthen the family and social support system in Malaysia.     

非接触式IC卡读卡器的二次开发

鉴于IC卡设备资源有限性,提出二次开发IC卡读写器程序的加密盒认证保护的方法及系统。     

Employing both gender and emotion cues to enhance speaker identification performance in emotional talking environments

Speaker recognition performance in emotional talking environments is not as high as it is in neutral talking environments. This work focuses on proposing, implementing, and evaluating a new approach to enhance the performance in emotional talking environments. The new proposed approach is based on identifying the unknown speaker using both his/her gender and emotion cues. Both Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (SPHMMs) have been used as classifiers in this work. This approach has been tested on our collected emotional speech database which is composed of six emotions. The results of this work show that speaker identification performance based on using both gender and emotion cues is higher than that based on using gender cues only, emotion cues only, and neither gender nor emotion cues by 7.22 %, 4.45 %, and 19.56 %, respectively. This work also shows that the optimum speaker identification performance takes place when the classifiers are completely biased towards suprasegmental models and no impact of acoustic models in the emotional talking environments. The achieved average speaker identification performance based on the new proposed approach falls within 2.35 % of that obtained in subjective evaluation by human judges.     

Collaborative learning in the clouds

Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most highly discussed topics both in the academic community and in the computing industry. While most of the work that has been conducted to explore this field focuses either on establishing the basis for cloud computing or almost exclusively on the issues surrounding security and data privacy, this paper takes the first exploratory step into exploring the actual internal working of cloud computing and demonstrates its viability for organizations, more specifically educational establishments . The paper starts by introducing the most important key clouds computing concepts, including virtualization technologies, Web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), and distributed computing. Light will be then shed on the impact and potential benefits of cloud computing on teaching and learning in educational institutions. The paper closes by describing building a private cloud inside educational institution and highlights its offerings for students, staff and lecturers.     

Enhanced fuzzy-filtered neural networks for material fatigue prognosis

Although fuzzy-filtered neural networks (FFNN) have been used in pattern classification because of their unique characteristics in feature extraction, they usually have poor performance in forecasting applications due to their structure complexities especially in their consequent reasoning part. In this paper, an enhanced FFNN, EFFNN, is proposed for time series forecasting and material fatigue prognosis. A novel neural network scheme is developed to facilitate computation implementation. A new conjugate technique is proposed to improve training efficiency. The effectiveness of the developed EFFNN scheme and the related training technique is demonstrated by a series of simulation tests. The EFFNN is also implemented for material fatigue prognosis. Test results show that the developed EFFNN predictor is an effective forecasting tool; it can capture system dynamics effectively and track system characteristics accurately.     

摩天岭隧道左线涌水特点及综合治理方案

本文着重介绍摩天岭隧道左线进口段反坡施工,多次、多点发生大规模涌水的特点及其成因,并详细介绍了经过专家论证后制定采取的综合治理方案,为长大隧道灰岩地区反坡施工涌水处理提供了宝贵经验。     

c#．net调用matlab进行混合编程

本文结合一个小实例提出了几种混合编程的方法。     

FCMAC网络的软硬件协同设计与实现

提出了FCMAC网络的一种基于NiosII的软硬件协同设计方法,解决了FCMAC软件实现速度慢、硬件实现耗资源的不足。通过Matlab仿真得出FCMAC网络的各参数。分析影响软件实现FCMAC速度的关键算法,对FCMAC算法进行软硬件划分。在NiosII IDE开发环境下,基于C实现软件模块,以用户自定义指令形式实现硬件模块和软硬件的衔接,即完成软硬件的协同设计。试验结果表明,FCMAC的软硬件协同实现在软件实现速度慢、硬件实现耗资源之间实现了折中,可通过不同的软硬件划分,实现速度与资源的互换。