We investigate known security flaws in the context of security ceremonies to gain an understanding of the ceremony analysis process. The term security ceremonies is used to describe a system of protocols and humans which interact for a specific purpose. Security ceremonies and ceremony analysis is an area of research in its infancy, and we explore the basic principles involved to better underst...

Although using the singer's name to search for songs is the common function of music retrieval systems, people often only remember famous singers. For new singers, people often only remember that the singer’s voice is similar to a famous singer, but cannot recall his/her name. Among current studies, there is little discussion on the music search method by voice. Therefore, this study proposed a...

Three Music Theater vocal qualities ("chesty belt," "twangy belt," and "legit") were investigated in female singers at their overlap range, between F#4-D5 (~370-600 Hz). Six experienced Music Theater singers performed each quality on two different vowels ([e], [ɔ]). Audio and electroglottographic (EGG) signals were recorded as well as the vocal tract impedance. In chesty belt and twangy belt, s...

Lexical (and structural) ambiguities make language as expressive as it is. Computational lexicons thus have to cope with a large amount of polysemous words. Research in the last decade (e. g., Pustejovsky (1995), Kilgarriff and Gazdar (1995)) has aimed at identifying different types of polysemy in order to capture underlying regularities. This paper deals with a subtype of regular polysemy illu...

The CERN to Gran Sasso Neutrino beam (CNGS) was commissioned at CERN in early August 2006 and was first sent at low intensity to Gran Sasso on August 17, 2006. The Borexino, LVD and OPERA detectors continued the commissioning of their detectors and started taking data with practically no dead time. The CNGS operated smoothly with good quality. In a short time the 3 detectors collected several h...

The sensitivity of the present CNGS beam to the sub-dominant νμ ↔ νe oscillations in the region indicated by the atmospheric neutrino experiments is investigated. In particular, we present a revised analysis of the OPERA detector and discuss the sensitivity to θ13 of ICARUS and OPERA combined. We show that the CNGS beam optimised for ντ appearance, will improve significantly (about a factor 5) ...

Choirs seem to exhibit varying proficiency of intonation (meaning the overall degree of precision in pitch) under differing acoustic conditions. If so, which conditions are the most conducive to correct intonation? Amateur male choir singers were asked to sing (one at a time) just intervals from a synthetic vowel tone whose spectrum arrd vibrato content were varied. The standard deviation in fu...