An automatic syllable segmentation method for mandarin speech is proposed. There are five features and the corresponding phonetic transcriptions used in the method. Firstly, the speech signals are pre-filtered. Secondly, the speech signal pre-filtered is segmented into 30 ms long segments and the five features of each segment are computed. Finally, syllable segmentation performs based on the ph...

The course shows the use of mathematical modeling in biological sciences. A variety of modeling techniques are Adler, Modeling the Dynamics of Life,. Computer networks are inherently social networks, linking people, organizations of computer networks has facilitated a deemphasis on group solidarities at. Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling using WinBUGS. Nicky Best, Alexina Mason and Philip Li. Sho...

Conversion of natural forests to plantations, particularly in the tropics, has drawn global attention and concern. Moreover, plantation forestry is on the rise, especially in tropical and sub-tropical regions where growth rates are rapid. Even in the United States where even-age silviculture is being de-emphasized on public land (only about 15Oh of all plantings in recent years), the area in ne...

Accuracy in speaker recognition systems may degrade if channel conditions during the training and testing stages are significantly different. Such channels may include different microphones, telephone and mobile handsets, speech coders, and VoIP. Many compensation techniques have been proposed which seek to minimize the channel mismatch condition thereby improving accuracy rates in these system...

We examined 6-month-olds abilities to represent occluded objects, using a cornealreflection eye-tracking technique. Experiment 1 compared infants’ ability to extrapolate the current pre-occlusion trajectory with their ability to base predictions on resent experiences of novel object motions. In the first condition infants performed at asymptote (≈2/3 accurate predictions) from the first occlusi...

Background/Aims: Will immunization with an experimental Pre-S1/Pre-S2/S hepatitis B vaccine (Bio-Hep-Be) induce faster seroprotection using fewer doses as compared with a yeast derived S vaccine (Engerix B). Methods: Healthy volunteers, nˆ 36, mean age 23 y, randomized to receive 2 or 3 doses of both vaccines given months 0 and 6, or 0, 1 and 6. Results: Following primary immunization, seroprot...

S. Monsell, K. E. Patterson, A. Graham, C. H. Hughes, and R. Milroy (1992) reported that high-frequency irregular words are named faster when presented in a "pure" block than when mixed with nonwords. They attributed this effect to a de-emphasis of an assembly route in the pure block. The current authors replicated this effect in Experiment 1. In Experiments 2 and 3, similar effects resulted fr...

IT HAS OFTEN BEEN COMMENTED that the bulk of Weber's sociology represents a prolonged " dialogue with the ghost of Marx " (Giddens, 1971, p. 185). Today it could equally be said that the bulk of contemporary Marxist writing represents a prolonged dialogue with the ghost of Weber. Without always acknowledging the fact (or even necessarily being aware of it), contemporary Marxists have drawn heav...

A novel formant estimation technique based on a pole-focusing mechanism applied to linear predictive coding (LPC) spectra is presented. The pole focusing technique is shown to provide superior feature resolution compared to standard LPC analysis. In its application to formant estimation from the speech signal, the technique is found to _be the antithesis of standard LPC analysis, requiring no p...