When individuals lose the ability to produce their own speech, due to degenerative diseases such as motor neuron disease (MND) or Parkinson’s, they lose not only a functional means of communication but also a display of their individual and group identity. In order to build personalized synthetic voices, attempts have been made to capture the voice before it is lost, using a process known as vo...

2012 will certainly be memorable as an Olympic year, but it has also seen a flurry of activity in the race to market biosimilar products. Keen to participate in this event, many countries throughout the world have established legal and regulatory pathways which allow manufacture of “copies” of a patent-expired biotherapeutic product. However, these are not simple generics as in the case of smal...

Based on practical observations on rule-based inference on RDF data, we study the problem of redundancy detection on RDF graphs in the presence of rules (in the form of Datalog rules) and constraints, (in the form of so-called tuple-generating dependencies), and with respect to queries (ranging from conjunctive queries up to more complex ones, particularly covering features of SPARQL, such as u...

Understanding uncertainty in resource models is a significant requirement of ore deposit evaluation. Uncertainty analysis allows the modeller to explicitly quantify the risk around their estimate, along with provide high/low estimates for mine design, assess project up/down-side, model financial forecasts, and reconcile the deposit after mining. Geostatistical simulation is one method that can ...

Although ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a widely accepted standard for WANs Wide Area Networks it has not yet been widely embraced by the NOW community because i most current ATM switches and interfaces have high latency and and ii they drop cells when even short term congestion happens In this paper we present ATLAS I a single chip ATM switch with Gbits sec aggregate I O throughput that was...

A base and strong generating set provides an effective computer representation for a permutation group. This representation helps us to calculate the group order, list the group elements, generate random elements, test for group membership and store group elements efficiently. Knowledge of a base and strong generating set essentially reduces these tasks to the calculation of certain orbits. Giv...

This paper presents an approach to the modeling of the singing voice with a particular emphasis on the naturalness of the resulting synthetic voice. The underlying analysis/synthesis technique is based on the Spectral Modeling Synthesis (SMS) and a newly developed Excitation plus Resonance (EpR) model. With this approach a complete singing voice synthesizer is developed that generates a vocal m...