The special session Singing Synthesis Challenge: Fill-In the Gap aims at comparative evaluation of singing synthesis systems. The task is to synthesize a new couplet for two popular songs. This paper address the methodology needed for quality assessment of singing synthesis systems and reports on a case study using 2 systems with a total of 6 different configurations. The two synthesis systems ...

In anesthetized rats, we characterized the contributions of norepinephrine (NE) and ATP to changes in tail and hindlimb (femoral) vascular resistances (TVR and FVR, respectively) evoked by three patterns of sympathetic stimulation: 1) couplets (2 impulses at 20 Hz), 2) short trains (20 impulses at 20 Hz), and 3) a natural irregular pattern previously recorded from a sympathetic fiber innervatin...

Introduction: Uner Tan syndrome (UTS) consists of quadrupedal locomotion (QL), impaired intelligence and dysarthric or no speech. Previously, I described the walk of cases with UTS as diagonal sequence (DS) because of ipsilateral limb interference, mostly observed in nonhuman primates with DS QL. The only gait analysis performed for UTS were a few cases with lateral sequence (LS) QL. The curren...

[1] The geomorphology and internal stratigraphy of modern coral microatolls show that all the outer arc Mentawai islands of West Sumatra have been subsiding over the past several decades. These same islands rose as much as 3 m during the giant megathrust earthquakes of 1797 and 1833, and the current subsidence probably reflects strain accumulation that will lead to future large earthquakes. Ave...

Local base stacking and conformational mobility play a major role in the structure and function of nucleic acids. We have recently shown that the low-energy CD spectrum of 2-aminopurine (2-AP), i.e., the CD spectral region above 300 nm, can be used to monitor conformational changes in polynucleotides at or near mono- and dinucleotide 2-AP residues that replace adenine residues in DNA and RNA. H...

Submitted: Jul 25, 2013; Accepted: Sep 4, 2013; Published: Sep 4, 2013 Abstract: The present study included anatomical studies of the stems and leaves of 7 cultivars of Ficus carica were investigated. The anatomical examination of the cross sections of the above mentioned stems and leaves revealed diagnostic characters among species. Data of comparative characters reached 14 couplet characters ...

Cycloheximide (3 to 5 mM) caused a decrease in the rate of gluconeogenesis from pyruvate, lactate, or glycerol in the perfused rat and guinea pig liver. In these experiments, oxygen consumption was reduced by 30% with pyruvate but was unaltered with lactate or glycerol as substrates. The inhibition of gluconeogenesis caused by cycloheximide was rapid in onset (lOOrrj, of maximal inhibition in 1...

OBJECTIVE This paper proposes a knowledge-based method for arrhythmic beat classification and arrhythmic episode detection and classification using only the RR-interval signal extracted from ECG recordings. METHODOLOGY A three RR-interval sliding window is used in arrhythmic beat classification algorithm. Classification is performed for four categories of beats: normal, premature ventricular ...

A structural study of complexes formed between a dimeric zinc porphyrin tweezer (host) and chiral monoalcohols and monoamines derivatized by a bidentate carrier molecule (guest) confirmed that their CD couplets arise from the preferred porphyrin helicity of 1:1 host-guest complexes. NMR experiments and molecular modeling of selected tweezer complexes revealed that the preferred conformation is ...

The study of core noise from turbofan engines has becomemore important as noise from other sources such as the fan and jet were reduced. A multiple-microphone and acoustic-source modeling method to separate correlated and uncorrelated sources is discussed. The autoand cross spectra in the frequency range below 1000Hz are fitted with a noise propagation model based on a source couplet consisting...