Composers often face the task of composing melodies for given texts such as religious hymns, poetry or the libretto of an opera. A plausible point of departure for writing melodies for a text is to study the prosody of the text as spoken either naturally or dramatically. In this paper we introduce PROSE: a system for aiding such study. The system extracts the prosody of a spoken signal and (re)...

WS: Water solubility prediction from OPERA (OPEn saR App) models. 1.2.Other related models: No related models 1.3.Software coding the model: OPERA V1.02 OPERA (OPEn (quantitative) structure-activity Relationship Application) is a standalone free and open source command line application. It provides a suite of QSAR models to predict physicochemical properties and environmental fate of organic ch...

BP: Boiling point prediction from OPERA (OPEn saR App) models. 1.2.Other related models: No related models 1.3.Software coding the model: OPERA V1.02 OPERA (OPEn (quantitative) structure-activity Relationship Application) is a standalone free and open source command line application. It provides a suite of QSAR models to predict physicochemical properties and environmental fate of organic chemi...

LogP: Octanol-water partition coefficient prediction from the OPERA (OPEn saR App) models. 1.2.Other related models: No related models 1.3.Software coding the model: OPERA V1.02 OPERA (OPEn (quantitative) structure-activity Relationship Application) is a standalone free and open source command line application. It provides a suite of QSAR models to predict physicochemical properties and environ...

In some historical opera halls there are boxes located around the proscenium, commonly called proscenium or "director" boxes. These boxes have a certain influence on the initial part of the impulse response of an opera hall on the singer-auditorium, singer-singer, and singer-orchestra pit paths. During the reconstruction of the Ljubljana opera hall, measurement of a scaled model was performed t...

In this article the physics motivation and the detector design of the OPERA experiment will be reviewed. The construction status of the detector, which will be situated in the CNGS beam from CERN to the Gran Sasso laboratory , will be reported. A survey on the physics performance will be given and the physics plan in 2006 will be presented.

This paper presents an optical music recognition (OMR) system to process the handwritten musical scores of Kunqu Opera written in Gong-Che Notation (GCN). First, it introduces the background of Kunqu Opera and GCN. Kunqu Opera is one of the oldest forms of musical activity, spanning the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and GCN has been the most popular notation for recording musical works in ...

The abilities to sing and to move to the beat of a rhythmic auditory stimulus emerge early during development, and both engage perceptual, motor, and sensorimotor processes. These similarities between singing and synchronization to a beat may be rooted in biology. Patel (2008) has suggested that motor synchronization to auditory rhythms may have emerged during evolution as a byproduct of select...

The choir singer has two acoustic sipals to attend to: fhe sound of his or her own voice (feedback), and the sound of fhe rest of fhe choir (reference). The balance in loudness between feedback and reference is governed mainly by the room acousfics. While earlier experimenfs have shown fhat singers have a fairly large tolerance for imbalance, wifh references ranging from -23 dB to +5 dB, experi...