The research reported in this paper uses novel stimuli to study how speech perception is influenced by information presented to ear and eye. Auditory and visual sources ofinformation (syllables) were synthesized and presented in isolation or in factorial combination. A five-step contilllium between the syllables /bal and Idalwas synthesized along both auditory and visual dimensions, by varying ...

Since 1869 when RAULIN reported that Aspergilluts niger excreted some growth-promoting substances into its medium, a number of investigators have studied the phenomenon of auxithal synthesis by fungi. For a comprehensive review of this the reader is referred to FRIES (2) and SCHLENKER (7). The writers (5) have referred briefly to this subject; the present paper reports a more exhaustive study. ...

The hydrodesulfurization (HDS) activity of molybdenum sulfide-based catalysts is localized to the edges of this layered solid and is, therefore, highly dependent on the technique used to prepare the material. Here, ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP) was used to synthesize porous, nanostructured MoS2. Low surface area powders, not useful for catalysis, are generally produced by USP. This work show...

Universitä t Freiburg with the analysis of folding of specific endogenous proteins in mutant strains, these studies have led to signifi-Hermann Herder Str. 7 D-79104 Freiburg cant advances in our understanding of protein folding in the complex cellular milieu. Germany Nascent chains emerging at the peptide exit tunnel of Madison, Wisconsin 53706 the ribosome are awaited by a welcoming committee...

We consider the task of assembling a large number of self controlled parts (or robots) into copies of a prescribed assembly (or formation). In particular, we describe a computationally tractable way to synthesize, from a specification of the desired assembly, local controllers to be used by each part, which when taken together, have the global effect of assembling the parts. We then prove that ...

Motivated by the desire to quantify the output of various texture synthesis algorithms, our method uses classical statistical measures to test the quality of outputs for five different categories of texture. We test our approach on three texture synthesis algorithms and present our results here. Of the three different algorithms tested, one is pixel based, the second a patch based approach, and...

A wide variety of singing synthesis models and methods exist, but there are remarkably few real-time controllers for these models. This paper describes a variety of devices developed over the last few years for controlling singing synthesis models implemented in the Synthesis Toolkit in C++ (STK), Max/MSP, and ChucK. All of the controllers share some common features, such as air-pressure sensin...