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The International Garden Festival

N ature interpretation centers are a romantic expression of the desire to understand and experience nature without giving up the comforts of civilization. Advances in digital technologies let us collect and store masses of data about our natural environment, but we are more removed from it than ever. As a society, we find ourselves trading experience-based knowledge for comfort. Interpretation ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A data warehouse typically differs from an OLTP database in terms of both significantly larger sizes for data pages as well as in the volume of data inserted in bulk. The traditional B+ Tree and its variants, while still a popular candidate for supporting point and range queries, can become very memory intensive for insert and delete operations under these more stringent requirements. Since typ...

Worcester Slaughterhouse Account

§1. The text published in this note (for images and full transliteration, see the CDLI entry http://cdli.ucla.edu/ texts/P218067.html) was brought to my attention by Jordan Love, Curatorial Assistant at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA. Ms. Love exhibited great patience in dealing with my several requests for better images of the substantial tablet; despit...

Festival speaks Italian!

Finally Festival speaks Italian. In this work, the development of the first Italian version of the Festival TTS system is described. One male and one female voice for three different speech engines are considered: the Festival-specific residual LPC synthesizer, the OGI residual LPC Plug-In for Festival and the MBROLA synthesizer. The new Italian voices will be freely available for download for ...

Chapter 17 Worcester Polytechnic Institute