New Possibilities and Chapters

New chapters for Alpha Omega Alpha.

New Persian Gulf possibilities.

Knotted proteins are more commonly observed in recent years due to the enormously growing number of structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Studies show that the knot regions contribute to both ligand binding and enzyme activity in proteins such as the chromophore-binding domain of phytochrome, ketol–acid reductoisomerase or SpoU methyltransferase. However, there are still many misidentified...

Trollope’s Chapters

The unit of the chapter – so fundamental to nineteenth-century prose narrative, yet so thoroughly ignored in accounts of the form of novels – is fundamental to Anthony Trollope’s work. The chapter stems from the textual practices of antiquity and of medieval biblical transmission, ultimately finding a home in the novel form. Chapters are key to Trollope’s understanding of readerly experience, i...

New Possibilities in Sound Analysis and Synthesis

In this presentation we exemplify the emergence of new possibilities in sound analysis and synthesis with three novel developments that have been done in the Analysis/Synthesis team at IRCAM. These examples address three main activities in our domain, and have reached a large public making or simply listening to music. The first example concerns synthesis using physical models. We have determin...

New Possibilities in Machine Translation

There is a growing need for language translation of documents in commerce, government, science, and international organizations. At the same time, translation by computer (MT) is reaching the stage where it can deliver significant cost savings (systems are being sold in Japan that reputedly reduce the time required for translation by up to 50%). Although fully automated high-quality translation...