0.1 This is a preliminary announcement of a new identification of a frequent ‘opening’ sign in the Indus texts. The sign, depicting a ‘crescent moon’, is identified, through rebus, as representing the ‘outer (city)’ and the ‘others’. I have also added, with some new evidence, two other complementary identifications earlier proposed by me, namely, the ‘(planned) city’ and the ‘inner (city)’ or ‘...

This study is carried out to examine the economic factors affecting the services exports using descriptive-survey method. Research objectives are Identification of economic variables affecting the services exports, Identifying the critical components of service exports, The study of the structural model on the effect of discovered components on export services and Ranking the weight of each of ...

This paper describes three cross-language ASR experiments which use hidden Markov modelling. The first one shows that consonant identification improves when vowel transitions are used. In particular, the consonants’ place of articulation is identified better, because the vowel transitions contain formant trajectories which depend on the consonant’s place of articulation. The second experiment c...