The number of times, a scientist is cited in other scientific publications is now an important factor in his merit consideration. Normally citation indices of highly cited scientists are available, which in turn give information only about the dynamics of the citation mechanism of this group. In the present work, we studied the statistical distribution of the citation index of Brazilian scienti...

This paper proposes a new application of speech modi cation called "speech morphing". In image processing, morphing is a well known technique that gradually changes one person's face to that of someone else. Speech morphing produces similar results for speech; i.e., one person's speech is gradually changed to that of someone else. Speech morphing makes it possible to create movies or multi-medi...