It is very common for a language to have different dialects or accents. The different pronunciations of the same words is one of the reasons for the different accents, in the same language. Swiss French accents have similar pronunciation to standard French, but noticeable differences in prosody. In this paper we investigate the use of standard French synthetic acoustic parameters combined with ...

45 Appraisal Inference from Synthetic Facial Expressions; Ilaria Sergi, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Chiara Fiorentini, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Stéphanie Trznadel, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland K...

SWISS-PROT is a curated protein sequence database which strives to provide a high level of annotation (such as the description of the function of a protein, its domains structure, post-translational modifications, variants, etc.), a minimal level of redundancy and high level of integration with other databases. Recent developments of the database include format and content enhancements, cross-r...

www.SwissFinanceInstitute.ch The Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) is a private foundation created in 2006 by Switzerland’s banking and finance community in cooperation with leading Swiss universities. The Institute supports and advances research, doctoral training, knowledge transfer and education in banking and finance. SFI also fosters interaction between researchers and practitioners with the g...

This study tests the hypothesis that cross-national differences in public awareness of international affairs are attributable to differences in the supply of international news and citizens’ demand for information. Simultaneously, the authors compared the level of news coverage accorded specific “target” subjects in major Swiss and U.S. news organizations and the level of attentiveness to news ...

PROBLEM STATEMENT We have studied the relationships among SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, and GenBank with two goals. First is to determine whether users can reliably identify those proteins in SWISS-PROT whose functions were determined experimentally, as opposed to proteins whose functions were predicted computationally. If this information was present in reasonable quantities, it would allow researchers ...

The experimental carcinogenesis results in six compounds related to vinyl chloride are reported. Vinylidene chloride, given by inhalation, was carcinogenic in male CD-1 mice, male CD rats, Sprague-Dawley rats and male Swiss mice. Trichloroethylene, given by gavage and inhalation, was carcinogenic in the B6C3F1 mice. When given by gavage, perchloroethylene was carcinogenic in the B6C3F1 mice, an...

BACKGROUND By analyzing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) pol sequences from the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS), we explored whether the prevalence of non-B subtypes reflects domestic transmission or migration patterns. METHODS Swiss non-B sequences and sequences collected abroad were pooled to construct maximum likelihood trees, which were analyzed for Swiss-specific subepidemics, (...

This paper presents a simple method for modifying the Swiss design traffic load model in order to take account of the difference between "design traffic" and the actual traffic which uses a given road bridge. This method can be used for the evaluation of structural safety and involves the use of a reduction factor derived as a function of six traffic characteristics which are calculated from si...

The aim of the present study was to analyze the activity of the trapezius muscle, the heart rate and the time pressure of Swiss and Japanese nurses during day and night shifts. The parameters were measured during a day and a night shift of 17 Swiss and 22 Japanese nurses. The observed rest time of the trapezius muscle was longer for Swiss than for Japanese nurses during both shifts. The 10th an...