This paper reports the results of a first attempt at compensating for variability in formant-trajectory representations due to differences in suspect and offender recording conditions. Formant-trajectory measurements were made on tokens of /iau/ in a database of high-quality and mobile-to-landline-transmitted recordings of 60 female speakers of Chinese. Discrete cosine transforms (DCT) were fit...

Many reviews have been written on pre-main-sequence binaries over the past 25 years, e.g., Reipurth (1988), Zinnecker (1989), Mathieu (1994), and Goodwin (2010), and particular mention should be made of IAU Symposium No. 200 (Zinnecker and Mathieu, 2001), which is still today a useful reference. Most recently, Duchêne and Kraus (2013) review the binarity for stars of all masses and ages. Stimul...

Arisingout of interest inapproaches for content-based image retrieval from theHST image archive, we prototyped free text retrieval systems using accepted proposal abstracts (hence: what the later associated images were meant to deal with). Other possible applications of such free text retrieval systems in observatory operations are described. Weusedwidely available, publicly accessible, (Sun) U...

A Joint Discussion on the extragalactic distance scale and the Hubble constant took place fifteen years ago, at the 1982 XVIIIth General Assembly of the IAU, held in Patras, Greece. At that time, the newest applications of infrared photometers to Tully-Fisher measurements (Aaronson 1983) and Cepheid distances (Madore 1983) were reported. CCDs were just coming into use and had not yet been appli...

In this paper ,the general solution of steady-state one dimensional asymmetric thermal stresses and electrical and mechanical displacements of a hollow cylinder made of functionally graded material and piezoelectric layers is developed .The material properties ,except the Poisson's ration, are assumed to depend on the variable radius and they are expressed as power functions of radius. The temp...