A hybrid Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) system was proposed to automatically select tokens of /iau/, /ai/, /ei/, /m/ and /n/ in a database of recordings of Standard-Chinese speech collected under studio-clean, mobile-landline degraded and mismatched recording conditions. The FVC systems constructed were all MFCC GMM-UBM systems, but based on different portions of the rec...

This note studies the linearly damped generalized Hartree equation iu˙−(−Δ)su+iau=±|u|p−2(Jγ∗|u|p)u,0<s<1,a>0,p≥2. Indeed, one proves an exponential scattering of energy global solutions, with spherically symmetric datum. means that, for large time, solution goes exponentially to associated free problem iu˙−(−Δ)su+iau=0, in Hs norm. The radial assumption avoids a loss regularity Strich...

Purpose To highlight that, for higher education (HE) to fulfil its role and provide societies with the required knowledge competencies that will enable a sustainable future, through research, campus operations, it needs cooperate promote interdisciplinarity within sector society at large. Design/methodology/approach This study is follow-up on author´s presentation, as President International As...

OBJECTIVE We compared a group-delivered, theory-based, motivation-enhancing program (PRIME For Life(®) - PFL, n=450) to an intervention as usual (IAU, n=72). METHOD Individuals convicted of a substance related offense in North Carolina, typically first offense alcohol and drug-impaired driving, participated in a PFL or IAU group. We compare the interventions on program satisfaction and change...

In order to test whether auditory feedback is involved in the planning of complex articulatory gestures in time-varying phonemes, the current study examined native Mandarin speakers' responses to auditory perturbations of their auditory feedback of the trajectory of the first formant frequency during their production of the triphthong /iau/. On average, subjects adaptively adjusted their produc...