Background: Islam as a comprehensive religion rooted in human nature and revealed in order to respond to basic human needs has broadened the ethics of its criminal policy to include crime, crime and punishment. In keeping with each other and with the other rules of this religion, it has set guidelines and values ​​based on ethics and principles for avoiding crime in the community if the Prophet...

Ijittle attention has been paid to the continuous parasternal murmur that moya occum. during pre-naney and that disappears after lactation. We have encountered 2 cases of this phenomenon. The nmurmnur probably arises from arteries supplying the breast. The inechanism of its production has not been established, but it may depend on s01Wf permanent anatomic anomaly. This benign murmur has special...

Malayalam employs gemination in syntactic and lexically distinctive roles. This paper presents an impressionistic and acoustic investigation of a subset of geminate consonants in Malayalam nouns. We show (a) that geminate sonorant consonants exhibit spectral differences as well as temporal ones and (b) that there are systematic spectral and temporal differences in vowels and consonants in nouns...

We investigated a speaker verification method that uses nonaudible murmur (NAM) segments using newly collected data and obtained several findings that will be useful when speaker verification systems are made in practice. NAM is recorded using a special microphone placed on the surface of the body, so it includes almost no external noise and is hard for other people to hear. By utilizing these ...

This paper presents a method for making nonaudible murmur (NAM) enhancement based on statistical voice conversion (VC) robust against external noise. NAM, which is an extremely soft whispered voice, is a promising medium for silent speech communication thanks to its faint volume. Although such a soft voice can still be detected with a special body-conductive microphone, its quality significantl...

The Lexical Access From Features (LAFF) project tries to model the representation and perception of speech by human listeners. The derivation of such a representation involves first finding certain acoustic landmarks. Based on the landmarks and the acoustic cues surrounding the landmarks, distinctive features of the speech segments may be deciphered. The present study concentrates on the nasali...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank Dr. B. Stonehouse for his generous help and constructive criticism throughout. I am also very grateful to the Banks Peninsula Rabbit Board, particularly to Mr. J. Phillips, for willingly arranging collection of animals; to Mrs. M. J. A. Bulfin and Messrs. C. J. Burrows and N. C. Lambrechtsen for help in identifying plants; and to Miss M. M. BUchler <Ind Mr. W. P...

Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) is an extremely soft whispered voice detected by a special body-conductive microphone called a NAM microphone. Although NAM is a promising medium for silent speech communication, its quality is significantly degraded by its faint volume and spectral changes caused by body-conductive recording. To improve the quality of NAM, several enhancement methods based on statistic...

The conversion method from Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) to ordinary speech based on the statistical voice conversion (NAM-toSpeech) has been proposed towards realization of “silent speech telephone.” Although NAM-to-Speech converts NAM to intelligible voices with similar quality to speech, there is still a large problem, i.e., difficulties of the F0 estimation from unvoiced speech. In order to avoi...

The presence of cardiological manifestations in trichinellosic infections in humans is frequently associated with severe clinical forms of the infection. Very frequently, the clinical condition manifests itself infraclinically, but it is only by means of paraclinical investigations that we can establish the correct diagnosis. The cardio-vascular manifestations include: trichinous myocarditis ch...