The modi cation methods described in this paper combine characteristics of PSOLA-based methods and algorithms that resynthesize speech from its short-time Fourier magnitude only. The starting point is a short-time Fourier representation of the signal. In the case of duration modi cation, portions, in voiced speech corresponding to pitch periods, are removed from or inserted in this representati...

Measurement of 238U, 233Th and 40K concentrations in soil samples collected from Ziggurat Dur-Kurigalzu west region Baghdad, have been evaluated, using high purity germanium detector. The activity varied 16.040 to 26.620 , 14.510 31.480 153.820 266.320 with average values 20.604±2.9 24.534±3.3 212.22±25.1 respectively. importance these measurements lies the estimation radiation risk, radium equ...

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NHK has been studying transmission technologies that contribute to increasing spectral efficiency and developing large capacity wireless transmissions. An effective technology is dual-polarized multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), which uses both horizontal vertical waves. We are currently an advanced Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) system provide simultaneously ...

EARLIER studies o f M o h a n and R a d h a (1977) have shown that the ra t io between b lood and bra in choline remains cons tant dur ing aging, however, the level o f acetylcholine (ACh) declines gradual ly wi th advance in age (Mohan , 1976). These results led us to investigate whether the reduced A C h levels in the aged bra in result f rom changes in the kinetic propert ies of the hydro ly...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 15 June 2009 190 12 659-660 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au Editorials days with unfractionated heparin, low-molecular-wei fondaparinux, prevents thrombus progression and re of recurrent VTE and death during the acute ph treatment is continued beyond the acute phase, wa the risk of recurrent VTE but increases the risk of requ...

Over the last 20 years new technologies have emerged in urology, while there has been an increase in the incidence of kidney stone disease with growing use of flexible ureteroscopy [1]. In 2004 Gyrus ACMI introduced the first totally digital flexible ureteroscopic system, the DUR-D Invisio platform [2]. This was a watershed moment as all the major companies began producing digital flexible uret...

In this paper , we show t h a t Reileralion and Collocation re la t ions as in t roduced I)y I la l l iday and l lasan may func t ion as lexieally I)iased discourse s t ruc tu re re la t ions and t h a t these re la t ions are well represented by sequences of Mel '&flds Lexical Funclions (Ll,'s). We propose to use Lie sequences for tl,e final de te rminat ion and real izat ion of discourse o rg...