This paper describes an approach to generating prosody parameters for Mandarin Chinese text-to-speech system. The Chinese fundamental frequency contour is decomposed into two parts, a global intonation contour and a syllable level tone contour. The global intonation contour is converted to pitch target labels in corpus. It is predicted by first predicting pitch target labels using statistical m...

A hybrid analytical–numerical approach is developed for the determination of strain energy release rates (SERRs) in shear deformable functionally graded plates. two-plate system considered, where plates are thickness direction and a crack exists between two Expressions Mode I II SERRs terms applied loads moments on along with accompanying compliance coefficients. mixity then determined aid cont...

We discuss non-Abelian bosonization of two and three dimensional fermions using a path-integral framework in which the bosonic action follows from the evaluation of the fermion determinant for the Dirac operator in the presence of a vector field. This naturally leads to the Wess-Zumino-Witten action for massless two-dimensional fermions and to a Chern-Simons action for very massive three dimens...

This article proposes a fast and accurate expansion-iterative method for solving second kind linear Volterra integral equations. The method is based on a special representation of vector forms of triangular functions (TFs) and their operational matrix of integration. By using this approach, solving the integral equation reduces to solve a recurrence relation. The approximate solution of integra...

A remarkably large number of integrals involving a product of the variety of special functions have been investigated by many authors. Motivated by these avenues of works,very recently,Agarwal (Tamsui Oxf. J. Inf. Math. Sci.,27(4) (2011), 449-462) gave two interesting unified integral relations involving the product of the multivariable polynomial and two generalized Mellin-Barnes type of conto...

Automatic image segmentation is a fundamental and challenging work in image analysis. We present a stochastic contour approach that draws the contour by multiple agents stochastically, each driven by a simple policy. A contour confidence map is formed, and the image is partitioned hierarchically according to the probability of being surrounded by an average contour. The segmentation is formed b...

We discuss non-Abelian bosonization of two and three dimensional fermions using a path-integral framework in which the bosonic action follows from the evaluation of the fermion determinant for the Dirac operator in the presence of a vector field. This naturally leads to the Wess-Zumino-Witten action for massless two-dimensional fermions and to a Chern-Simons action for very massive three dimens...

a method has been presented for finding the solution surface of the npde: u  c , bounded by a general space curve. the method is based on the geometric characteristics of the surface, and is called the “cone-slot method”. it has been shown that such a surface can be obtained by movement of a cone inside the slot formed by the boundary space curve. an algorithm has been suggested on the basis ...

We propose and investigate a new algorithm for quantifying the topological properties of cosmological density uctuations. We rst motivate this algorithm by drawing a formal distinction between two de nitions of relevant topological characteristics, based on concepts, on the one hand, from di erential topology and, on the other, from integral geometry. The former approach leads one to concentrat...