This paper describes a multimodal database which consists of image data of human gestures and corresponding speech data for the research on multimodal interaction systems. The purpose of this database is to provide an underlying foundation for research and development of multimodal interactive systems. Our primary concern in selecting utterances and gestures for inclusion in the database was to...

Student diScount order Form 2016/17 Clark’s Publishing Agreements: A Book of Precedents, Ninth Edition is a comprehensive compendium of model agreements for just about every contract needed in the publishing industry. From general author agreements, via merchandising rights to online licensing, you’ll find it all in this essential resource. Students will benefit from: • Guidance on how to draft...

The Spoken Portuguese: Geographic and Social Varieties project has as its main goal the Portuguese teaching as foreign language. The idea is to provide a collection of authentic spoken texts and to make it friendly usable. Therefore, a selection of spontaneous oral data was made, using either already compiled material or material recorded for this purpose. The final corpus constitution resulted...

This document describes a new tutorial tool developed by NoTAM in which DSP programs, texts, help files and examples make computer music knowledge and practice available to students at the elementary school level and beyond. The educational material is organized on a CD-ROM, where students learn through a demo mode that allows a pre-programmed piece of music to be dissected through calls to the...

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The new Lcica RM 2165 automatic, heavy-duty microtome has an advanced step motor that permits an exact specimen feed and reproducible sectioning results. Features include 70 mm vertical stroke length, unique step trim function, and programmable specimen retraction. Technical features include a handwheel rocking sectioning mode; the motorized specimen feed can be linked to change the handwheel t...

A digital watermark embeds an imperceptible signal into data such as audio, video and images, for a variety of purposes, including captioning and copyright control. As watermarking is increasingly used for a wide variety ∗Portions of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of SPIE, Human Vision & Electronic Imaging II, V 3016, pp 92-99, February 1997. Portions are reprinted, with permission, fro...

background: non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common malignant tumor in humans. the role of ultraviolet radiation is well-known in the pathogenesis of basal cell carcinoma (bcc) and squamous cell carcinoma (scc). cd10 is a zinc-dependent metallopeptidase known as common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (calla). although cd10 expression has been investigated in some cutaneous tumors, to o...