This paper presents a measure that scores various aspects of phone quality. The measure is designed to penalize phone instances with one or several characteristics that are not desirable in concatenation-based speech synthesis. Depending on the phone type, these aspects amongst others include spectrum, phase, fundamental frequency, duration, voicing and plosive quality. We applied this quality ...

We propose a novel capture and annotation system called TagTansu, which can easily capture pictures of clothes and add annotations to support creating a picture database of clothes. TagTansu consists of hook sensors and capture components attached inside the doors of a tansu (a wardrobe).Using TagTansu, users can easily take pictures of clothes and add annotations (e.g. types and weight of clot...

this research was carried out based on systematic analysis approach for evaluation of ecological resources capability of kasilian representative catchment for agricultural land use. the study area is located in southern of mazandaran province. in this study we used topography digital data, paper maps, climatology data, satellite images and gis, database and spreadsheet software. the process of ...

Over half of the world’s population lives in cities and United Nations (UN) demographers project an increase of 2.5 billion more urban dwellers by 2050. Yet there is too little systematic comparative research on the practice of urban health policy and management (HPAM), particularly in the megacities of middle-income and developing nations. We make a case for creating a global database on citie...

Conceptual database schemas can be used to create standard data representations for an application domain. Despite the commonalities which exist in data requirements of organizations of a same domain, some structural variability is required to accommodate organizations’ specific needs. Current database modeling techniques are not able to express structural data variability. To address the probl...

java is an object-oriented program that has abundant open-source libraries for application development and 3d model rendering. spatial database is the database that can efficiently store and manage geographic information data though various spatial data management techniques. this paper explores the rationale of coupling java with spatial database to develop an effective platform for future bui...

BACKGROUND Research in organic chemistry generates samples of novel chemicals together with their properties and other related data. The involved scientists must be able to store this data and search it by chemical structure. There are commercial solutions for common needs like chemical registration systems or electronic lab notebooks. However for specific requirements of in-house databases and...