This technical report documents experiment into stylization of the f0 curve on Standard Yorùbá (SY ) syllables as well as a technique for intonation modelling. A number of interpolation polynomials were evaluated using root mean square error and mean opinion score techniques. The stylisation experiment resulted in the selection of a 3 degree polynomial for modelling the f0 curves on Yorùbá syll...

Executable modeling of complex embedded systems is essential for bug discovery and safety validation at early design stages. A relatively large number of tools enable early design diagnosis and validation by transforming and analyzing the model into a formal setting. However, this transformation induces a semantic gap rendering diagnosis more difficult. Moreover, on the way to deployment, execu...

This paper provides a novel and effective compensation method by improving the hardware design and software algorithm to achieve optimization of piezoresistive pressure sensors and corresponding measurement systems in order to measure pressure more accurately and stably, as well as to meet the application requirements of the meteorological industry. Specifically, GE NovaSensor MEMS piezoresisti...

Oral mucosa undergoes continuous rapid turnover and this result in exfoliation of cells. These cells play a vital role in pre-diagnostic assays as they reflect the systemic conditions which induce cyto-morphological and nucleo-morphological variations in the cell. Though it was initially used for diagnosis of potentially malignant disorders and other malignancies, its use has extended to diagno...

In highly purified human polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) preparations containing less than 0.1% contaminating monocytes, significant amounts of interleukin-8 (IL-8) and small amounts of IL-la, IL-la, and tumor necrosis factoralpha (TNF-a) were produced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation. Contrary to published reports, IL-6 production could not be detected. IL-10 inhibited the produc...

OpenIPMC is a free and open source firmware designed to operate as an Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC). An IPMC fundamental component of electronic boards conformant the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) standard, currently being adopted by number high energy physics experiments, responsible for monitoring health parameters board, managing its power stat...

We propose a combined experimental (Atomic Force Microscopy) and theoretical study of the structural and dynamical properties of nucleosomes. In contrast to biochemical approaches, this method allows to determine simultaneously the DNA complexed length distribution and nucleosome position in various contexts. First, we show that differences in the nucleo-proteic structure observed between conve...

China has had the highest fertilizer use rate in world for years, but today a large number of farmlands still traditional manual application methods, which rely entirely on personal experience and not only cause waste water resources also make local ecological environment polluted. This paper researches designs BP neural network PID controller based PSO optimization to address above problems. T...

This paper will describe the development and evolution of GIS to support environmental quality monitoring and hazards mitigation activities in two citizen-based water watch movements: Alabama Water Watch and Nucleo Pro Tiete in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In both cases, citizen volunteers concerned with creating baseline databases for local watershed areas formed as a result of severe problems in local ...