1. Introduction.—The progressive refinement during the recent years in the measurement of
the volume of physical production in manufacturing suggests the possibility of attempting (1) …

Research into the production function has a long history. Since the first work, in 1928, many
studies have tended to support the hypothesis that production processes are well described …

The DARPA Spoken Language System (SLS) community has long taken a leadership position
in designing, implementing, and globally distributing significant speech corpora widely …

Silicon germanium (SiGe) has moved from being a research material to accounting for a
small but significant percentage of manufactured semiconductor devices. This percentage is …

This paper describes an action framework for countries with low tuberculosis (TB) incidence
(<100 TB cases per million population) that are striving for TB elimination. The framework …

A speaker-independent hidden Markov model (HMM) keyword recognizer (KWR) based on
a continuous-speech-recognition model is presented. The baseline keyword recognition …

A century and a third ago, in 1815, Malthus' and Sir Edward West2 simultaneously pointed
out that if successive combined doses of labor and capital were applied to a given piece of …

COVID-19 disproportionately affects vulnerable and marginalized populations such as ethnic
minorities and migrant groups. In this perspective we review the complex interaction of the …

Large studies on bedaquiline used to treat multidrug-resistant (MDR-) and extensively drug-resistant
tuberculosis (XDR-TB) are lacking. This study aimed to evaluate the safety and …

Flash memory devices—that is, non-volatile computer storage media that can be electrically
erased and reprogrammed—are vital for portable electronics, but the scaling down of metal–…