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...

In this paper, we introduce a novel method for quantization of line spectral frequencies (LSF) converted from mth order linear prediction coefficients. In the proposed method, the interframe correlation of LSFs is exploited using matrix quantization where N consecutive frames are quantized as one m-by-N matrix. The voicing-based multi-mode operation reduces the bit rate by taking advantage of t...

A method for efficient quantization of speech spectral models is proposed. The impulse response of the model is coded in two spectral subbands of unequal width. The distortion measure used is a squared error between impulse responses. The quality obtained at 22 bits per frame is as good as that of Split Vector Quantization of Line Spectral Frequencies at 24 bits per frame.

A fluorescence assay was used to measure the processivity of Escherichia coli recBCD enzyme helicase activity. Under standard conditions, recBCD enzyme unwinds an average of 30 +/- 3.2 kilobase pairs (kb)/DNA end before dissociating. The average processivity (P obs) of DNA unwinding under these conditions is 0.99997, indicating that the probability of unwinding another base pair is 30,000-fold ...

Advances in direct radiocarbon dating of Neanderthal and anatomically modern human (AMH) fossils and the development of archaeostratigraphic chronologies now allow refined regional models for Neanderthal-AMH coexistence. In addition, they allow us to explore the issue of late Neanderthal survival in regions of Western Eurasia located within early routes of AMH expansion such as the Caucasus. He...

The emergence of animal husbandry in the Netherlands remains subject much speculation. Challenges identifying domesticated animals among faunal remains, inconsistent excavation documentation, and flawed radiocarbon analysis have resulted questionable chronologies. This paper examines available evidence from selected sites which are mainstay early examples Netherlands, between 5000 4000 BCE.1 We...

Abstract Optical clocks improved the accuracy of state-of-the-art cesium by more than two orders magnitude and enabled frequency comparison with a fractional uncertainty one part in 10 18 . Gravitational redshift such allows determining their height difference an 1 cm. In Europe, chronometric leveling has been extensively conducted for unifying reference systems. Temporal response leveling, whi...

as an application of hirota bilinear method, perturbation expansion truncated at different levels is used to obtain exact soliton solutions to (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear evolution equation in much simpler way in comparison to other existing methods. we have derived bilinear form of nonlinear evolution equation and using this bilinear form, bilinear backlund transformations and construction of ...

Let (G;N) be a pair of groups. In this article, first we con-struct a relative central extension for the pair (G;N) such that specialtypes of covering pair of (G;N) are homomorphic image of it. Second, weshow that every perfect pair admits at least one covering pair. Finally,among extending some properties of perfect groups to perfect pairs, wecharacterize covering pairs of a perfect pair (G;N)...