Many of the current techniques and systems that deal with speaker identity do not regard detailed prosody as a crucial source of speaker-dependent information. The reasoning behind this relates to the common assumption that the F0 level and the spectral data carry all or almost all of the speaker-dependent information. But is this assumption really valid? We have investigated the importance of ...

(3) T (n) = 1 2 (−1) L(−2 n − 1, χ12) where χ12(n) is the Dirichlet character with modulus 12 defined by n mod 12 1 5 7 11 others χ12(n) 1 −1 −1 1 0 It was pointed out that the right hand side of eq. (2) is regarded as a half-differential of the Dedekind η-function with weight 1/2. Interesting is that the function X(q) is intimately connected with the knot theory; it is a generating function of...

As the nature of managerial work is changing and becoming ever more demanding it is argued that managers are increasingly vulnerable to becoming the recipients of workplace bullying from their staff. The possibility of a manager being bullied by their staff has been under explored within the bullying literature. This phenomenon is referred to as ‘upwards bullying’. It is argued that due to the ...

A partition of n is a non-increasing sequence of natural numbers whose sum is n. An overpartition of n is a partition of n in which the first occurrence of a number may be overlined. For example, there are 14 overpartitions of 4: 4, 4, 3 + 1, 3 + 1, 3 + 1, 3 + 1, 2 + 2, 2 + 2, 2 + 1 + 1, 2 + 1 + 1, 2 + 1 + 1, 2 + 1 + 1, 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 and 1 + 1 + 1 + 1. In 1926, Schur [15] proved the following p...

What is common to dualists is the view that some mental properties are properties no entirely physical thing could have. According to a substance dualist, certain mental properties that people have are properties that nothing that had any physical properties could have. Thus there are two different sorts of thing that do not overlap: things that have mental properties, and physical things. A pr...

As a field, neuroscience concerns itself with gaining an understanding of how physical processes occurring in the nervous system are related to mental phenomena such as perception, motor control, and complex thoughts and behaviors. As teachers of neuroscience, we are charged with facilitating an understanding of these relationships in our students. Therefore, it seems that an in-depth discussio...

Modern conversations between the natural sciences and theology on the human soul have not so far engaged extensively with the debates of the early church on the matter. This article considers the relevance of the Apollinarian controversy (the fourth century Christological contention of whether or not Jesus has a human soul/mind), and suggests that this introduces important considerations for th...

Friedrich von Hayek’s The Sensory Order (1952) presents a physicalist identity theory of the human mind. In a reaction to Karl Popper’s criticism that such a “causal” theory of the mind cannot explain the descriptive and critical-argumentative functions of language, Hayek wrote a paper that was never published. It contains the description of a thought experiment of two communicating automata. T...

Abstract We use derivatives to prove the equivalences between MacWilliams identity and its four equivalent forms, and present new interpretations for the four equivalent forms. Our results explicitly give out the relationships between MacWilliams identity and its four equivalent forms.

We consider the oscillatory property of the following p(t)-Laplacian equations −(|u′|p(t)−2u′)′ = 1/tθ(t)g(t,u), t > 0. Since there is no Picone-type identity for p(t)Laplacian equations, it is an unsolved problem that whether the Sturmian comparison theorems for p(x)-Laplacian equations are valid or not. We obtain sufficient conditions of the oscillatory of solutions for p(t)-Laplacian equations.