The Kumbh is a religious Hindu festival that has been celebrated for centuries. The 2013 Kumbh Mela, a grander form of the annual Kumbh, was purportedly the largest gathering of people in human history. Many of the participants carried cell phones, making it possible for us to use a data-driven approach to document this magnificent festival. We used Call Detail Records (CDRs) from participants ...

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an important mosquito-borne viral zoonosis in Africa and the Middle East that causes human deaths and significant economic losses due to huge incidences of death and abortion among infected livestock. Outbreaks of RVF are sporadic and associated with both seasonal and socioeconomic effects. Here we propose an almost periodic three-patch model to investigate the transm...

Purpose The purpose of the study is to compare features career development and fandom in frequent festival attendance context Finnish music festivals. Design/methodology/approach uses a mixed methods research approach employs two theoretical frameworks: theories fandom. Findings In attendance, both are most clearly present motivation social dimensions. Practical implications Strategically, fest...

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar as relações culturais e políticas travadas a partir do 1° Festival Mundial de Artes Negras, realizado em 1966, no Senegal. O festival internacional organizado com total apoio presidente Léopold Sédar Senghor, buscava apresentar negritude um caminho político possível. Dito isto, primeiramente o realiza uma discussão sobre conceito seus possíveis usos sentid...

BACKGROUND Fireworks are commonly used in local and national celebrations. The aim of this study is to explore the extent, nature and hospital costs of injuries related to the Persian Wednesday Eve festival in Iran. METHODS Data for injuries caused by fireworks during the 2009 Persian Wednesday Eve festival were collected from the national Ministry of Health database. Injuries were divided in...

Finite Fibonomial Operator Calculus (FFOC) is a special case of Extented Finite Operator Calculus (FOC). The ”Calculus of Sequences” was started by Ward in 1936 [1] and considered by many authors after him. The very foundations of FOC were given by O.V.Viskov, G. Markowsky and finally by the author of [8, 2, 3] . The idea of FFOC due to A.K.Kwaśniewski [2] (see Example 2.1) is now continued [4]...

Iskander Aliev A sharp lower bound for the Frobenius number Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849–1917) raised the following problem: given N positive integers a1, . . . , aN with gcd(a1, . . . , aN ) = 1, find the largest natural number gN = gN (a1, . . . , aN) (called the Frobenius

Please note: Changes made as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing, formatting and page numbers may not be reflected in this version. For the definitive version of this publication, please refer to the published source. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite this paper. ABSTRACT This paper assesses the contribution of the Ecological Footprint as a...

The topic of this work is an extension of our previous research on the development of a general data-driven procedure for creating a neutral “narrative-style” prosodic module for the Italian FESTIVAL Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesizer, and it is focused on investigating and implementing new strategies for building a new emotional FESTIVAL TTS. The new emotional prosodic modules, similarly to the ...

Speech is the most natural and effective medium of communication among the human beings. Speech has played a great role in the evolution of human civilization. Speech synthesis is an artificial way of producing speech. The native speakers of any language use their knowledge base of various prosodic features during the speech production. These features they acquire unconsciously in childhood. Wi...