Sounding rocket programs for upper atmospheric research (UAR) commenced at Woomera in 1957, with the British Skylark project and the Anglo-Australian HARP rockoon program. Shortly afterwards, the Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) inaugurated its own sounding rocket program with the first successful Australian-built sounding rocket, Long Tom, developed from surplus British motors. This resear...

In the United Kingdom, geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) are calculated from thin-sheet electrical conductivity models. absence of models, time derivatives magnetic fields sometimes used as proxies for GIC-related electric fields. An alternative approach, favored in States, is to calculate storm time-independent impedance tensors computed an array magnetotelluric (MT) sites and recorded a...

Abstract The Bloch–Siegert effect is relevant for NMR experiments where components of the excitation pulse other than circularly polarized component have an influence on evolution magnetization spin system under consideration. For linearly fields this happens at amplitudes higher roughly one tenth magnitude static magnetic field. Since surface nuclear resonance (SNMR) experiments, also called m...

This paper introduces WaveNet, a deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms. The model is fully probabilistic and autoregressive, with the predictive distribution for each audio sample conditioned on all previous ones; nonetheless we show that it can be efficiently trained on data with tens of thousands of samples per second of audio. When applied to text-to-speech, it yields state-...

[1] The present empirical models describing a location and shape of the magnetopause and bow shock are based on a statistical evaluation of magnetopause and bow shock crossings. The crossings are usually identified by a visual inspection of the plots or by automatic methods which are less reliable. We present a new method of determination of the most probable boundary locations. The method is b...

Speech synthesis based on Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and other statistical parametric techniques have been a hot topic for some time. Using this techniques, speech synthesizers are able to produce intelligible and flexible voices. Despite progress, the quality of the voices produced using statistical parametric synthesis has not yet reached the level of the current predominant unit-selection ap...

To enhance the communication between human and robots at home in the future, speech synthesis interfaces are indispensable that can generate expressive speech. In addition, synthesizing celebrity voice is commercially important. For these issues, this paper proposes techniques for synthesizing natural-sounding speech that has a rich prosodic personality using a limited amount of data in a text-...