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Georg Bauer

Editorial Atypical Speech Georg

One of the most important aspects of spoken language is its large degree of variability. Variability in speech is caused by many different sources, for instance, changes of the acoustic environment or transmission channel and differences between speakers or various speaking styles. Successful speech processing systems typically combine several different means to cope with the unwanted variabili...

Georg Friedrich Händel's strokes.

Georg Friedrich Händel was a musical giant and probably the first composer to be the manager and promoter of his own works. The story of his life and illnesses is full of myths, invented and embellished by various biographies. Existing pathographies written by authors from various specialities suggested he suffered from psychiatric diseases like cyclothymia or mania and rheumatologic disorders ...

Georg Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

The Anglophone philosophical world is currently riding a swelling wave of enthusiasm for a big, dense, blockbuster of a book by the previously unknown Jena philosopher, Georg Hegel. His Phenomenology of Spirit, originally in German, now available also in English, picks up and weaves together in a surprising and wholly original way a large number of today’s most fashionable ideas. Although he ne...

In memoriam of Nils-Georg Asp

W e remember our valued colleague and friend, Nils-Georg Asp, professor emeritus in Applied Nutrition at Lund University and the former executive director of the Swedish Nutrition Foundation, with deep affection. Nils-Georg died on June 1, 2012, after a long brave fight against cancer. He is deeply missed by his wife Marianne, his four daughters and their families, as well as by many colleagues...