Since Bolinger’s [1] discovery that pitch cues accentual prominence in English, a tension has arisen between two strategies: equating accent with pitch excursions and relying on perception for identifying accented words. This paper investigates the relation between prominence judgments from untrained listeners and accentual labels produced by trained transcribers. Naïve speakers of English, Spa...

We performed a cognitive experiment in order to obtain evidence that prosody is used for the segmentation of continuous speech for understanding in real time. We assume that the cognitive unit in Japanese speech is the accentual phrase (AP) which is represented by low and high pitch patterns according to the Japanese accent rule. Meaningless speech which consisted of two APs was used as the exp...

nowadays accountancy of human resources has become one. of the most important issues in the field of maintaining human resources in the organizations. there ate different methods to use for controlling human resource that in this essay the major emphasis has been put on degree of replacement or rotation, absenteeism, and the relationship between employees. in accountancy of human resources the ...

This paper presents an approach to describe business process in production systems using workflow concepts. In this sense, we define an extension of the UML Activity Diagram called Workflow Activity Diagram (WAD) which applies the C-WF model concepts. The C-Wf model represents the structural and functional enterprise objects involved in the business processes, such as enterprise activities, hum...

Coastal area constitutes a vulnerable environment and requires special attention to preserve ecosystems human activities therein. To this aim, many studies have been devoted both in past recent years analyzing the main factors affecting coastal vulnerability susceptibility. Among most used approaches, Vulnerability Index (CVI) accounts for all relevant variables that characterize dealing with: ...

This review covers literature data summarizing, on one hand, the chemistry of essential oils and, on the other hand, their most important activities. Essential oils, which are complex mixtures of volatile compounds particularly abundant in aromatic plants, are mainly composed of terpenes biogenerated by the mevalonate pathway. These volatile molecules include monoterpenes (hydrocarbon and oxyge...

The human hand is a complex mechanism, very difficult to model and to mimic. There are many fields, which require the use of a hand model: computer games, VR simulations, human hand prostheses design, etc. Depending on the domain, the hand model will be more or less similar with the natural model, every time some approximations being necessary. This paper presents a human hand model intended to...

The design of future air traffic management (ATM) systems appears as a grand challenge. Because of its very large scale, complexity, and dynamicity, we believe that the future of air traffic management lies in hybrid distributed cooperative control systems, including human experts (air traffic controllers) and also intelligent computer support through artificial agents. Such artificial agents c...