Speaker age is a speaker characteristic which is always present in speech. Previous studies have found numerous acoustic features which correlate with speaker age. However, few attempts have been made to establish their relative importance. This study automatically extracted 161 acoustic features from six words produced by 527 speakers of both genders, and used normalised means to directly comp...

In this paper, a Ulm-like method is proposed for solving inverse singular value problems. This method has an advantage over Newton’s methods since it avoids solving approximate Jacobian equations. Under some mild assumptions, we show that the proposed method converges at least quadratically in the root sense. Our numerical tests, based on comparison with the inexact Newton method given by Bai a...

CIRMMT, Computational Acoustic Modeling Lab, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, 555 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Canada H3A 1E3 Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), 527 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Canada H3A 1E3 Computational Acoustic Modeling Lab, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, 555 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canad...

Abbreviations: ADF, acid detergent fibre; ADG, average daily gain; CP, crude protein; CT, condensed tannins; DCP, digestible crude prot digestible energy; DM, dry matter; DOM, digestible organic matter; FCR, feed conversion ratio; LW, live weight; ME, metabolizable energ microbial protein synthesis; NDF, neutral detergent fibre; OM, organic matter; OMDR, organic matter digested in the rumen; VF...

Hong et al (Reports, 5 May 2017, p. 527) suggested that previous studies of the biogeochemically significant marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium showing increased growth and nitrogen fixation at projected future high CO2 levels suffered from ammonia or copper toxicity. They reported that these rates instead decrease at high CO2 when contamination is alleviated. We present and discuss results of...

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CONTENTS 36.1 Bio-Char Management and Soil Nutrient Availability ............................................. 518 36.2 Microbial Cycling of Nutrients in Soils with Bio-Char ............................................ 519 36.3 Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Soils with Bio-Char................................................. 521 36.4 Slash-and-Char as an Alternative to Slash-and-Burn ...........

The physics potential of a high-energy photon collider is reviewed. The emphasis is put on aspects related to the symmetry breaking sector, including Higgs searches and production of longitudinal vector bosons. ENSLAPP-A-527/95 arch-ive/9508218 June 1995 § URA 14-36 du CNRS, associée à l’E.N.S de Lyon et à l’Université de Savoie. Talk presented at the Photon’95 Conference, Sheffield, England, A...