One Spring Day to Revisit My High School Days

Recollections of My Young Days

I was bashful by nature. In elementary school, I was enthusiastic about painting pictures, posters, and calligraphy, and making butterfly specimens and models. When I entered the middle school of Seikei Gakuen, I was fortunate to have good teachers and friends. Prof. Kusatao Nakamura taught us the "Preciousness of the pureness of heart", which is the principle of my life. After World War II, sc...

High quality TTS voices within one day

State-of-the-art unit-selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthetic speech, at the price however of a costly and time-consuming voice creation process. We report here an extensive perceptual evaluation of several voice creation strategies, and conclude with a novel 1day process giving access to high quality TTS voices.

Wageningen School Days

Since the State Agricultural School in Wageningen opened its doors in 1876, the Netherlands has had a school exclusively dedicated to researching, teaching, and propagating agricultural knowledge deemed important to the Dutch nation. Even though for most of its history the school has remained separate and inferior to Dutch academia – graduates of the school receive the telling title ‘agricultur...

Dedicated to Lisa The spring of love in my life

of the 2013 Spring Padua Muscle Days

5 Three ways to try and heal a diseased muscle: macrophages, exon skipping and cell transplantation Eva Galletta (1), Chiara Saletti (1), Sarah Pigozzo (1), Federico Galvagni (2), Chiara Bolego (3), Libero Vitiello (1) (1) Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy; (2) Department of Biotechnology, University of Siena, Italy; (3) Department of Pharmacy, University of Padova, Italy. E-ma...