In this paper, we have developed a new general distance measure that not only can be used in a vector quantization (VQ) of the line spectrum frequency (LSF) parameters but performes well in the LSF transformed domain. The new distance is based on the spectral sensitivity of LSF and their transformed coe cients. In addition, the x scaling factor is used to decrease the sensitivity of spectral er...

Voice adaptation describes the process of converting the output of a text-to-speech synthesizer voice to sound like a different voice after a training process in which only a small amount of the desired target speaker’s speech is seen. We employ a locally linear conversion function based on Gaussian mixture models to map bark-scaled line spectral frequencies. We compare performance for three di...

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Magnocellular neuroendocrine cells of the supraoptic nucleus (SON) release the peptides oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (VP) from their dendrites and terminals. In addition to peptide-containing large dense-core vesicles, axon terminals from these cells contain clear microvesicles that have been shown to contain glutamate. Using multilabelling confocal microscopy, we investigated the presence of ...

This paper draws out some implications of son targeting fertility behaviour for gender inequality. It is demonstrated that such behaviour has two notable implications at the aggregate level: (a)larger number of siblings for girls (Sibling Effect), and (b)a higher within-family birth order for boys (Birth Order Effect). While the first tends to worsen gender inequality through monetary factors, ...

Let C be an algebraically closed field with trivial derivation and let F denote the differential rational field C〈Yij〉, with Yij , 1 ≤ i ≤ n − 1, 1 ≤ j ≤ n, i ≤ j, differentially independent over C. We show that there is a Picard-Vessiot extension E ⊃ F for a matrix equation X ′ = XA(Yij), with differential Galois group SOn, with the property that if F is any differential field with field of co...

The self-organizing networks (SON) technique is necessary to develop and manage efficiently a current complicated network system requiring various management work. For development of a SON system, it is very important but still laborious to design a coordination function to avoid performance degradation due to conflicts among multiple management algorithms. This paper proposes a SON-based optim...

The low level acoustico-visual association reported by Yehia et al. (Speech Comm., 26(1):23-43, 1998) is exploited for audio-visual speech enhancement with natural video sequences. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that the redundant components of AV speech are extractible with a suitable representation which does not involve any categorization process. A comparative study is achieved bet...

Cet ouvrage trouve son origine dans un cours d’histoire des mathématiques donné par l’auteur à l’université de Californie à Los Angeles au début de la décennie 2000. Contrairement aux usages académiques, Varadarajan avait opté pour une construction de son cours autour d’une unique grande figure historique, son choix se portant alors naturellement sur Euler en raison de son universalité, guidé p...