Polarity inversion based speech watermarking scheme hide data in speech by modification of the speech polarity. This paper build a statistical model of the polarity detection problem, based on this model, the original polarity detection scheme and the optimal detection scheme are analyzed and compared. The theoretical analysis results are validated by Monte Carlo simulation, the optimal polarit...

The paper presents the research results on electrostatic charging tendency (ECT) of transformer oil in a spinning disk system. The measurements were performed at different aging severity. Changes in static electrificationwere related to some classical aging indexes (conductivity, dissipation factor, water content, resistivity, etc.). Fast, inexpensive and reliable laboratory testing procedures ...

This paper explores the distribution of Free Choice Items (FCI) and Negative Polarity Items (NPI) in Malagasy. Both FCIs and NPIs in Malagasy are syntactically complex: they are expressed by disjunctions of wh-words. It is shown that this morphosyntactic structure directly reflects their semantics. In other words, FCIs and NPIs are semantically as well as syntactically disjunctive. Moreover, th...

In a previous work (L. R. Domingo, M. J. Aurell, P. Perez and R. Contreras, Tetrahedron 2002, 58, 4417) we proposed that the difference in global electrophilicity index be taken as a measure of the polarity at the transition state in intermolecular Diels-Alder reactions. We herein extend this model to deal with intramolecular Diels-Alder (IMDA) processes. The transferability of the empirical re...

Neuronal cell function is largely dependent on polarity. Studies in the past decades indicate that the neuronal polarity machinery is one of the major targets of neurological disorders. Planar cell polarity (PCP) and apicobasal (AB) polarity modules were shown to be crucial for the establishment of neuronal polarity. Accordingly, neural tube defects (NTDs) have been associated with mutations in...

The diversity of neuronal morphologies and the complexity of synaptic connections in the mammalian brain provide striking examples of cell polarity. Over the past decade, the identification of the PAR (for partitioning-defective) proteins, their function in polarity in the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote, and the conservation of polarity proteins related to the PAR polarity complex in Drosophila ...

In 1935, Burr and Musselman reported a correlation of the menstrual cycle in women with the difference in potential of the index fingers. Small daily fluctuations were noted. However, once in each cycle there occurred a marked increase in potential difference which was many times the usual determination. The right index finger showed an increase in positive polarity to several thousands of micr...