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scientific educational-research festivals are regularly designed programmes in which one or more educational or research areas are discussed. every festival is usually focused on a specific academic domain, and relevant activities in one specific time period (e.g. one year) are investigated. these festivals provide an appropriate situation for the scientific competition among educational and re...

The calibration status of the Faint Object Camera is described. The best reference files to be used with COSTAR-corrected data are given, along with some discussion of the accuracies to be expected when these files are used. Finally, some discussion of the calibration of polarimetric and objective-prism spectroscopic observations is given.

We discuss spacetime singularity resolution in the context of the gravity / gauge correspondence, for brane systems which give rise to gauge theories with eight supercharges and no hypermultiplets. The discussion is aimed at non-experts. Writeup of talk on [1] for proceedings of PASCOS-99 (10 16 Dec 1999, Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe); also relevant to Way Beyond the Standard Models Conference (31 ...

The Chinese Spring Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. The peak transport in the Spring Festival season (spring travel rush) provides a unique opportunity for investigating the impact of human activity on air quality in the Chinese megacities. Emission sources are varied and fluctuate greatly before, during and after the Festival. Increased vehicular emissions ...

Capturing, uploading, and presenting social media content online have become the standard way for people to share their experiences with friends, family members, and others. In this paper, we describe our effort to extract, aggregate, and visualize, in a smartphone app, real-time and historical hyperlocal social media discussions and photos created at a regional arts festival that attracted ove...

Introduction: Shahid Motahari Annual Educational Festivalaims to improve the quality of medical education in the IslamicRepublic of Iran, and has held since 2008. The present study wasperformed to determine the satisfaction level of Iranian medicaluniversities’ faculty members about holding Shahid MotahariAnnual Educational Festival during the past six years, from 2008to 2014.Methods: This cros...

In the application of robots in healthcare, where there is a requirement to communicate vocally with non-expert users, a capacity to generate intelligible and expressive speech is needed. The Festival Speech Synthesis System is used as a framework for speech generation on our healthcare robot. Expression is added to speech by modifying mean pitch and pitch range parameters of a statistical mode...

Flite is a small, fast run-time synthesis library suitable for embedded systems and servers. Flite is designed as an alternative run-time synthesis platform for Festival in applications where speed and size are important. Voices built using the FestVox process may be compiled into efficient representations that can be linked against Flite to produce complete text-tospeech synthesizers. The Flit...