Gunnar Fant 1920–2009

Norway , Mental Health and WHO Gunnar Vold

In Defence of a Contextualist Theory of Indicative Conditionals Gunnar

Indicative conditionals sometimes communicate that the consequent would follow causally or evidentially from the antecedent, and sometimes that it holds independently of the antecedent. On all standard accounts of indicatives, however, such relations of consequence and independence fall outside the content of conditionals. Instead, they are inferred pragmatically from the fact that a sentence w...

Investigating the relationship between abiotic factors and species richness at the Fant Wildlife Area, Maidstone, Kent

The key abiotic factor found to affect the percentage cover of nettles in this investigation was soil temperature, with a 0.734 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient between the two variables (showing a significant correlation where P<0.05). This is thought to be due to the fact that an increase in soil temperature will cause an increase in the metabolic activities of the nettle. This include...

Optimizations and fitting procedures for the liljencrants-fant model for statistical parametric speech synthesis

Every parametric speech synthesizer requires a good excitation model to produce speech that sounds natural. In this paper, we describe efforts toward building one such model using the Liljencrants-Fant (LF) model. We used the Iterative Adaptive Inverse Filtering technique to derive an initial estimate of the glottal flow derivative (GFD). Candidate pitch periods in the estimated GFD were then l...

Component Security Design Considerations for J 2 EE and . Net – An Architectural View Part 3 Gunnar

Users As an architect designing security implementations, one of the first things to work on is the storage and management of user information. J2EE and .Net allow for a variety of options regarding users. Both support LDAP and RDBMS as user stores while the .Net platform also adds its own Active Directory as a user solution. The architect may view the straightforward integration with Active Di...