Many harmony systems impose conditions on the triggers and targets of harmony that involve prosodic features such as stress, length, or peripherality in the prosodic word domain. Such conditions serve to distinguish a `strong' anchor (SA) from a `weak' anchor (WA) for a given feature, and are responsible for asymmetries in the class of segments that may trigger or undergo harmony. Yet, language...

Background. An important outcome from the debate on whether wellness equals happiness, is the need of research focusing on how psychological well-being might influence humans' ability to adapt to the changing environment and live in harmony. To get a detailed picture of the influence of positive and negative affect, the current study employed the affective profiles model in which individuals ar...

This paper proposes a multimedia presentation system Harmony which can deal with temporal and active media such as motion video, computer animation, and music sounds. Harmony is based on the notion of a hyperobject which integrates a hypertext system with an object-oriented framework. Each object is considered a node as is usual in hypertext systems, and the relations between objects are repres...

Pronunciation plays a significant role in English teaching and learning around the world this particular field has received much attention from several scholars. The study was conducted to investigate common mistakes made by Vietnamese university learners while pronouncing consonant clusters. This is quantitative with participation of 39 as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. To collect data for s...

In many applications, independence of event occurrences is assumed, even if there is evidence for dependence. Capturing dependence leads to complex models, and even if the complex models were superior, they fail to beat the simplicity and scalability of the independence assumption. Therefore, many models assume independence and apply heuristics to improve results. Theoretical explanations of th...

Recently, a popular metaheuristic algorithm called Harmony Search, conceptualized using the musical process of searching for a perfect state of harmony is undergoing faster developments. In this paper, a new variant of harmony search called Dynamic Hybrid Harmony Search algorithm (DHHS) is proposed. The novelty introduced in this algorithm is the division of the whole population into few sets o...

The CORBA standard, together with its service specifications, has gained considerable attention in recent years. The CORBA Object Query Service allows for declarative access to heterogeneous storage systems. We have come up with an implementation of this service called Harmony. The objective of this article is to provide a detailed description and quantitative assessment of Harmony. Its main te...