Festival Elektra 2001

Treatment of Elektra prosthesis complications

Introduction We have been using the Elektra prosthesis for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the CMC joint of the thumb since 1997. After 760 implantations, we studied 689 cases to obtain sufficient follow-up in 596 women and 93 men. Of the 689 cases with sufficient follow up, only 661 cases were not deceased or had records that could be traced. The results in this series are good in terms of ...

Festival speaks Italian!

Finally Festival speaks Italian. In this work, the development of the first Italian version of the Festival TTS system is described. One male and one female voice for three different speech engines are considered: the Festival-specific residual LPC synthesizer, the OGI residual LPC Plug-In for Festival and the MBROLA synthesizer. The new Italian voices will be freely available for download for ...

The International Garden Festival

N ature interpretation centers are a romantic expression of the desire to understand and experience nature without giving up the comforts of civilization. Advances in digital technologies let us collect and store masses of data about our natural environment, but we are more removed from it than ever. As a society, we find ourselves trading experience-based knowledge for comfort. Interpretation ...

Academic Festival Overture (brahms/

LEIDIG) (MD) -An excellent arrangement of this work written in 1879 when Brahms was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Breslau. The work is built on German student songs; the songs are developed in a variety of tempos, styles, and moods. In the closing section, the melody is presented in a stately and dramatic manner, and the orchestra plays with full force, bringing the overture ...

Edible Books Festival