We describe in detail a Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) converter required for the development of a good quality Hindi Text-to-Speech (TTS) system. The Festival framework is chosen for developing the Hindi TTS system. Since Festival does not provide complete language processing support specific to various languages, it needs to be augmented to facilitate the development of TTS systems in certain new ...

The efficacy of transgenic cotton genotypes containing Cry1Ac, Cry1F, and Cry1Ac stacked with Cry1F (WideStrike®, Dow Agrosciences, Indianapolis, IN) were investigated during 2001-2003 against the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner) (=BAW), and the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (=FAW), in laboratory bioassays and small experimental field plots. In all experiments, cot...

This study of the 2000 U.S. presidential election replicates and extends Pillai and Williams‘ [Leadersh. Q. 9 (1998) 397] study of the 1996 presidential election. Data were collected at two periods from respondents across three regions of the United States to yield 342 matched sets of preelection variables and postelection measures. Transformational leadership and attributed charisma were stron...

Existing line segment detectors tend to break up perceptually distinct line segments into multiple segments. We propose an algorithm for merging such broken segments to recover the original perceptually accurate line segments. The algorithm proceeds by grouping line segments on the basis of angular and spatial proximity. Then those line segment pairs within each group that satisfy unique, adapt...

This article describes a methodology of recovering and preservation of old Romanian texts and problems related to their recognition. Our focus is to create a gold corpus for Romanian language (the novella Sania), for both alphabets used in Transnistria – Cyrillic and Latin. The resource is available for similar researches. This technology is based on transliteration and semiautomatic alignment ...

We show that the bounded error recognition problem for images of non-planar 3D objects using point features can be decomposed into 1D search tasks, along lines joining the origin of the object coordinate system to the feature points chosen to model the object. Points are constructed along these lines at locations given by the coordinates of the detected image points; concurrent bracketing of th...

are killed by putting the pot on a hearth which will raise the inside air temperature to 60?C. (140?F.). At this temperature the inside air is hot; the bottom of the pot is very hot, but the sides are merely warm. By this time all the mosquitoes will be found dead, and the pot is removed from the hearth. The whole operation takes about fifteen minutes using a moderate fire. This method could be...

Argon laser iridotomy was successfully performed on 47 out of 52 eyes of 35 patients by the continuous wave argon laser. The technique of argon laser iridotomy is described in detail. A number of complications were observed. The reasons for these are discussed, and measures for the avoidance of complications are suggested.