In the present work, a fast, green and simple synthesis method for the production of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) is introduced. Silver nanoparticles are currently among the most widely used man-made nano materials, present in a wide range of consumer products. Green chemistry is characterized by careful planning of chemical synthesis of silver nanoparticles to reduce adverse outcomes. S...

Biological synthesis of metallic nanoparticles is considered as a fast, eco-friendly, affordable and easily scalable technology. Also, the nanoparticles produced by plants are very stable. In this study, the focus is on the synthesis of silver nanoparticles using extract of eryngium campestre. The effective parameters such as concentration of silver nitrate, pH, temperature and time, size and m...

This paper describes work in progress concerning the adequate modeling of fast speech in unit selection speech synthesis systems – mostly having in mind blind and visually impaired users. Initially, a survey of the main phonetic characteristics of fast speech will be given. From this, certain conclusions concerning an adequate modeling of fast speech in unit selection synthesis will be drawn. S...

Plural unit selection and fusion is a successful method for concatenative synthesis. Yet its unit fusion algorithm is simple and requires improvement. Previous research on unit fusion is mainly involved in boundary smoothing and not quite suitable for the application mentioned above. Therefore, a high-quality unit fusion method is proposed in this paper. More accurate pitch frame alignment and ...

An efficient coding system is required for immersive teleconference to transmit stereo video. We propose a novel stereo video coding system by exploiting mesh-based disparity estimation and compensation scheme to achieve high coding efficiency and view synthesis ability. Based on the base-layer-enhance-layer structure, this system can provide stereoscopic scalability and compatihility to standa...

in the present study, we have reported the biological synthesis of silver nanoparticles (agnps) using aqueous leaf extract prepared by hot percolation treatment of wheat varities (pbw343, triticum durum and aegilops tauschii )for the reduction of silver ions to silver nanoparticles. bioreduction of ag+ to ag0 was observed when aqueous extract augmented with silver nitrate (agno3) was incubated ...

Three-dimensional (3D) textures are popular for texturing solid objects. They usually achieve superior results over conventional two-dimensional (2D) texture mapping techniques. However, whereas 2D textures can be obtained using for example a photograph, capturing or generating solid textures is not straightforward. Procedural techniques can replicate some types of materials, but are usually di...

a simple, fast, efficient and environmentally friendly method for synthesis of benzimidazole and its 2-alkyl, aryl and heteroaryl substituted derivatives was developed using zeolite hy. two component cyclolcondensation of 1,2-phenylenediamine (o-phenylenediamine) and commercially available carboxylic acids catalyzed by zeolite hy without any solvent, under microwave irradiation led to formation...

One well-known problem with speech synthesis is the occurrence of audible discontinuities at phoneme boundaries, which lead to the unnaturalness of synthetic speech. This paper presents a sinusoidal noise based mathematical method to reform the transition regions from one phoneme to another phoneme with low storage. The speech parameters of sinusoidal noise model were estimated and stored as po...