This study compares two diphthongs ([ea], [oa]) and two glide-vowel sequences ([ja], [wa]) in Romanian. The diphthongs and the sequences are auditorily very similar, but they differ in their phonological patterning. An integrated production and perception experiment is conducted in search of perceptual and acoustic evidence for the different phonological representations proposed for the diphtho...

purpose : to evaluate the correlation between inner segment/outer segment (is/os) line and external limiting membrane (elm) layer integrity at foveal center and visual outcome and to investigate the prognostic factors in optical coherence tomography (oct) that related to final visual acuity (va) and recovery time in acute central serous chorioretinopathy (csc) methods : we prospectively studied...

There are several other methods for entering text at a computer, these include gaze typing and spoken input and, with the advent of the PDA and, more recently, the tablet PC, users can use handwritten text that is created with a stylus or pen. This handwritten text can be close to the users ‘natural’ handwriting, for example, cursive writing, or can require the user to construct letters in a co...

background: organophosphorus (op) compounds are used to control pests, however they can reach the food chain and enter the human body causing serious health problems by means of acetylcholinesterase (ache) inhibition and oxidative stress (os). among the ops, chlorpyrifos (chp), malathion (mal), and diazinon (dia) are commonly used for commercial extermination purposes, in addition to veterinary...

SUMMARY IBM's Microkernel, named Workplace OS microkernel 17], was the core component of Workplace OS, a portable successor of OS/2. The basic premise of Workplace OS work was: 1) IBM would adopt and improve the CMU Mach 3.0 microkernel for use on PDAs, the desktop, workstations, and massively parallel machines, and 2) that several operating system personalities would execute on the microkernel...

Apple's next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) system in MacOS X uses a superpositional pitch model, comprising a relatively smooth underlying F0 contour and a separate contribution from the in uence of the phonetic segments. This paper focuses on the data-driven modelling of the underlying contour, based on electroglottographic signals obtained from a corpus of reiterant speech. F0 extraction fr...

Graffiti.pc is a new conjecture-making program, whose design was influenced by the well-known conjecture making program, Graffiti. This paper addresses the motivation for developing the new program and a description, which includes a comparison to the program, Graffiti. The subsequent sections describe the form of conjectures and educational applications of Graffiti.pc to undergraduate research...

MacTEX installs everything needed to run TEX on a Macintosh, with a single click of the mouse. I’ll discuss the history of this package — Wendy’s conspiratorial lunch and Jonathan Kew’s all-night coding session — modifications over the years, and important changes in the 2012 release.