Perception of speaker identity is an important characteristic of the human auditory system. This paper describes a subjective test for the investigation of the relevance of four acoustic features in this process: vocal tract, pitch, duration, and energy. PSOLA based methods provide the framework for the transplantations of these acoustic features between two speakers. The test database consists...

The thermal self-energy of gluons generally depends on four Lorentz-invariant functions. Only two of these occur in the hard thermal loop approximation of Braaten and Pisarski because of the abelian Ward identity KμΠ μν htl = 0. However, for the exact self-energy KμΠ μν 6= 0. In linear gauges the SlavnovTaylor identity is shown to require a non-linear relation among three of the Lorentz-invaria...

Perception of speaker identity is an important characteristic of the human auditory system. This paper describes a subjective test for the investigation of the relevance of four acoustic features in this process: vocal tract, pitch, duration, and energy. PSOLA based methods provide the framework for the transplantations of these acoustic features between two speakers. The test database consists...

The sensitivity of hairpin-probe-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) analysis was sequence-dependent in detecting single base mismatches with different positions and identities. In this paper, the relationship between the sequence-dependent effect and the discrimination sensitivity of a single base mismatch was systematically investigated by fluorescence analysis and force spect...

We study the formulation of bond-orientational order in an arbitrary two dimensional geometry. We find that bond-orientational order is properly formulated within the framework of differential geometry with torsion. The torsion reflects the intrinsic frustration for two-dimensional crystals with arbitrary geometry. Within a DebyeHuckel approximation, torsion may be identified as the density of ...

In this work we compare two different random dilutions on a mean field ferromagnet: the first model is built on a Bernoulli-diluted graph while the second lives on a Poisson-diluted one. While it is known that the two models have, in the thermodynamic limit, the same free energy, we investigate on the structural constraints that the two models must fulfill. We rigorously derive for each model t...

The invention of the microscope has been fundamental for the understanding of tissue architecture and subcellular structures. With the advancement of higher magnification microscopes came the development of various molecular biology tools such as Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) and in situ proximity ligation assay (in situ PLA) to monitor protein interactions. Microscopy has become a c...

In order to integrate identity authentication and key agreement, a novel academic thought is set out, a fasting one-way accumulator is constructed, and a fasting one-way accumulator-based key management protocol is put forward for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (HSNs). The experiments and analysis show that the proposed protocol not only implements identity authentication function, but has high ...

Let (W,H,μ) be the classical Wiener space, assume that U = IW + u is an adapted perturbation of identity satisfying the Girsanov identity. Then, U is invertible if and only if the kinetic energy of u is equal to the relative entropy of the measure induced with the action of U on the Wiener measure μ, in other words U is invertible if and only if 1 2 ∫