The modi cation methods described in this paper combine characteristics of PSOLA-based methods and algorithms that resynthesize speech from its short-time Fourier magnitude only. The starting point is a short-time Fourier representation of the signal. In the case of duration modi cation, portions, in voiced speech corresponding to pitch periods, are removed from or inserted in this representati...

We analyse the stellar mass-to-light ratio (M/L) gradients in a large sample of local galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, spanning a wide range of stellar masses and morphological types. As suggested by the well-known relationship between M/L values and colours, we show that M/L gradients are strongly correlated with colour gradients, which we trace to the effects of age variation...

JUSTIFICATIVA E OBJETIVOS: A analgesia profunda no paciente queimado, que necessita de cuidados diários das lesões, constitui um campo de atuação do anestesiologista em que as referências de conduta ainda são muito escassas. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a conduta anestésica em ba lneo te rap ia de pac ien tes que imados em 2852 procedimentos. MÉTODO: Foi realizada avaliação prospectiva d...

Continued fractions lie at the heart of a number of classical algorithms like Euclid's greatest common divisor algorithm or the lattice reduction algorithm of Gauss that constitutes a 2-dimensional generalization. This paper surveys the main properties of functional operators, |transfer operators| due to Ruelle and Mayer (also following L evy, Kuzmin, Wirsing, Hensley, and others) that describe...

PURPOSE To elucidate compliance rates among glaucoma patients in a tertiary healthcare center, reasons for noncompliance and response-based-solutions to improve compl iance in the same cohort. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the Glauco-Jung study, a cross-sectional descriptive epidemiological one, information was obtained from 500 patients from 1st January, 2014 to 30th June, 2014. Patients were int...

Stab ility of E q u ilibrial S t a t e s a n d Lim it Cycles in Sparsely Co n nected, Structurally Com p lex B o olean Nets C rayt on C. Walker Abst ract. Th roug h the ir na tural dyn ami cs , net work s of Boo lean fun ct ions ca n recompu te , or ret urn to , equilibrial states and lim it cycles from which t hey have been d isp laced. How often such return occurs measures one kind of be havi...

We pursue in this paper our study of approximations of values and-saddle-point policies in dynamic zero-sum games. After extending the general theorem for approximation, we study zero-sum stochastic games with countable state space, and non-bounded immediate reward. We focus on the expected average payoo criterion. We use some tools developed in the rst paper, to obtain the convergence of the v...

I N T R O D U C T I O N I t is a well k n o w n fac t t h a t t h e ca rd iac muscle fibers m a k e compl ica ted anas tomoses w i th each o ther . T h i s makes analysis of t h e tissue electr ical proper t ies very diff icult c o m p a r e d w i t h ne rve a n d skeletal musc le fibers. A t t empt s , however , h a v e been m a d e to app ly l inear cab le analysis t o ca rd i ac muscle, for ...

This paper describes a method to automatically generate the mapping between a completely labeled reference image and the 3D medical image of a patient. To a c hieve this, we combined three techniques: the extraction of 3D feature lines, their matching using 3D deformable line models, the extension of the deformation to the whole image space using warping techniques. We present experimental resu...

R esum e: Nous d emontrons que, sous des circomstances g en erales, l'union disjoint des couvertes universales des etoiles d'un groupo de de Lie admet le structure d'un groupo de de Lie auquel que le projection a une propri et e de monodromie sur les extensions des morphismes emousse. Ca compl etes une conte d etailles des r esultats annonc es par J. Pradines. Introduction The notion of monodro...