A model is proposed that interprets a variety of connected speech processes as resulting from prosodic modulations at different tiers of functional speech motor control along the hypo-hyper dimension [10]. The general background of the model is given by the trichotomy of A-, Band C-prosodic phenomena [15] that together constitute the acoustic makeup of any speech utterance (with regard to their...

this study aimed at determining the physico-morphological attributes, in vitrofertilityand their interrelationships in semen of sahiwal bulls. semen samples werecollected weekly for 6 weeks from ten mature sahiwal bulls divided randomly into 5 groups. the mean (±sem) of ejaculate volume (ml), mass activity (score 0-5), progressive sperm motility (%), sperm concentration (106/ml), live sperm (%)...

This paper focuses on the assessment of both the intelligibility and the quality of speech when using a variable degree of articulation (hypo/hyperarticulation) in the framework of HMM-based speech synthesis. Intelligibility is evaluated when the synthesizer is working in adverse conditions. The adaptation of a neutral speech synthesizer to generate hypo and hyperarticulated speech is first per...

This paper focuses on the understanding of the effects leading to high-quality HMM-based speech synthesis with various degrees of articulation. The adaptation of a neutral speech synthesizer to generate hypo and hyperarticulated speech is first performed. The impact of cepstral adaptation, of prosody, of phonetic transcription as well as the adaptation technique on the perceived degree of artic...

In the antisaccade task, subjects are instructed to look in the opposite direction of a visually presented stimulus. Controls can perform this task successfully with very few errors, whereas schizophrenia patients make more errors and their responses are slower and more variable. It has been proposed the fundamental cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia involves prefrontal dopaminergic hypoact...

PURPOSE The aim of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of hypo-fractionated whole breast radiation therapy in patients with early breast cancer. METHODS Searching electronically PubMed and the Cochrane Central Register we made a comprehensive literature review regarding the randomized controlled phase III trials for hypo-fractionated radiation therapy in early brea...

This paper focuses on the analysis and synthesis of hypo and hyperarticulated speech in the framework of HMM-based speech synthesis. First of all, a new French database matching our needs was created, which contains three identical sets, pronounced with three different degrees of articulation: neutral, hypo and hyperarticulated speech. On that basis, acoustic and phonetic analyses were performe...

1. Urinary excretion of digoxin-like immunoreactive factor and arginine-vasopressin and other parameters related to salt and water metabolism were studied in hyper- and hypo-thyroid rats after different tests. 2. Urinary excretion of arginine-vasopressin was increased in hyperthyroid and reduced in hypothyroid rats with respect to controls, in response to water deprivation or a hypertonic salin...

HYPO is a case-based reasoning system that evaluates problems by comparing and contrasting them with cases from its Case Knowledge Base (CICB). It generates legal arguments citing the past cases as justifications for legal conclusions about who should win in problem disputes involving trade secret law. HYPO’s arguments present competing adversarial views of the problem and it poses hypothetical...