Automatic discrimination of speech and music is an important tool in many multimedia applications. Previous work has focused on using long-term features such as differential parameters, variances, and time-averages of spectral parameters. These classifiers use features estimated over windows of 0.5–5 seconds, and are relatively complex. In this paper, we present our results of combining the lin...

This paper presents a novel algorithm which generates three-dimensional face point trajectories for a given speech le with or without its text. The proposed algorithm rst employs an o -line training phase. In this phase, recorded face point trajectories along with their speech data and phonetic labels are used to generate phonetic codebooks. These codebooks consist of both acoustic and visual f...

the use of locks with different forms, mechanisms and applications has been common for a long time in iran. among these locks we can point out the pendant combinated lock, in which two mechanisms are used simultaneously in a single body. employing a descriptive – analytical method, this study searches the reasons of using two mechanisms in these locks. problems such as: the use of these locks, ...

In the title compound, C17H21N5S2, the dihedral angles between the central pyridine ring and its pendant imidazole rings are 29.40 (9) and 40.77 (9)°; the pendant rings are twisted in an opposite sense with respect to the central ring. In each case, the S atom is approximately anti to the N atom of the pyridine ring. For both substituents, the H atom attached to the central C atom of the isopro...

The compositional dependence of the polymerization kinetics of multiacrylate copolymers with acrylic acid (AA) was examined. The multiacrylates considered were dior triacrylate esters of oligo(ethylene glycol) (OEG). The multiacrylate polymerization rate increased with the OEG chain length in the absence of added AA. This monomer size dependence was due to mobility-related effects on the pendan...

Three linear polyesters with pendant ketoprofen were synthesized by copolymerization of polyethylene glycol (PEG) with malic acid (thiomalic acid or aspartic acid) using lipase B acrylic resin from Candida antarctica (CAL-B) at 90 °C respectively. These thermosensitive polyesters exhibit a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) at 10–12 °C. The in vitro study demonstrated that these polyest...

This paper compares the morphologies of films of conjugated polymers in which the backbone (main chain) and pendant groups are varied between ionic/hydrophilic and aliphatic/hydrophobic. We observe that conjugated polymers in which the pendant groups and backbone are matched, either ionic-ionic or hydrophobic-hydrophobic, form smooth, structured, homogeneous films from water (ionic) or tetrahyd...

In the title solvate, C22H18O6·2C3H7NO, the complete dicarboxylic acid molecule is generated by a crystallographic twofold axis, which bisects the central benzene ring and one N,N-di-methyl-formamide solvent mol-ecule. The dihedral angle between the central and pendant benzene rings is 54.53 (5)° while that between the pendant rings is 45.44 (5)°. In the crystal, the acid molecules are linked t...

Polyisocyanates can be synthesized with chiral and achiral pendant groups distributed randomly along the chains. The overall chiral order, measured by optical activity, is strongly cooperative and depends sensitively on the concentration of chiral pendant groups. To explain this cooperative chiral order theoretically, we map the random copolymer onto the one-dimensional random-field Ising model...