The study deals with the question of the manifestation of the prosodic system of a language (here Estonian) in singing. Previous research has shown that durational contrasts are neutralized in the sung version of the folksongs. The present study makes a first attempt to establish whether there is a similar neutralization of prosodic oppositions with regard to melody: whether the melody of the s...

The translation of Digital products applicable to military application has been affected by the DoD's need for lower cost products. Products developed for military application must retain robust mechanical characteristics; however, each product may be tailored to meet government specifications such as mean time between failure and temperature range. Design changes for military use have had a be...

In a previous paper Low91] we presented two new models of timed CSP. The rst model included biased operators in the syntax, which could be used to model diierent priorities on actions. The second model extended this by adding a probabilistic choice operator to the syntax; this allowed us to give a semantics which modelled the probabilities of diierent behaviours occurring. In Low92b] we present...

In order to create more comfortable and energy saving living spaces, we have to investigate what is comfortable and how to measure comfort of users in a living space. Some measures of thermal comfort have been defined as Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied (PPD) as an international standard. However, complex and high cost equipments are required to measure PMV by con...

Recent findings in the domain of combining classifiers provide a surprising revision of the usefulness of diversity for modelling combined performance. Although there is a common agreement that a successful fusion system should be composed of accurate and diverse classifiers, experimental results show very weak correlations between various diversity measures and combining methods. Effectively n...

Do socio-economic cleavages shape electoral dynamics in African countries? Previous individual-level and party systems research on politics has de-emphasized factors, contributing to the common view that ethnic short-term alliances define both locally nationally. Focusing Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, we draw methods geography offer a spatial analysis of geographic patterns constituency-level returns ...

Article history: Received 24 January 2009 Accepted 19 July 2010 Available online 27 July 2010