This paper presents the timbre model, a signal model which has been built to better understand the relationship between the perception of timbre and the musical sounds most commonly associated with timbre. In addition, an extension to the timbre model incorporating expressions is introduced. The presented work therefore has relation to a large field of science, including auditory perception, si...

Although sinusoidal models have been shown to be useful for timescale and pitch modiication of voiced speech, objectionable artifacts often arise when such models are applied to unvoiced speech. This correspondence presents a sinusoidal model-based speech modiication algorithm that preserves the natural character of unvoiced speech sounds after pitch and timescale modiication, eliminating commo...

the basic model for valuation of firm is the dividend discount model (ddm). when investors buy stocks, they expect to receive two types of cash flow: dividend in the period during which the stock is owned, and the expected sales price at the end of the period. in the extreme example, the investor keeps the stock until the company is liquidated; in such a case, the liquidating dividend becomes t...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Hepatic fibrosis is associated with elevated sinusoidal pressure, which can be transmitted to the hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) in the perisinusoidal space of Disse. Here, we sought to determine the effects of pressure on cellular growth and Src-dependent signaling pathways in the rat HSCs. METHODS Cultured rat HSCs were exposed to pressures (0 to 80 mmHg) by using a press...

Arterial pressure, portal pressure, hepatic venous pressure, and hepatic volume were measured simultaneously in anesthetized cats. When hepatic venous pressure was raised, hepatic volume increased at first rapidly then slowly. After 20 minutes, the volume increased at a steady rate which continued for at least 4 hours. During this period, the hepatic blood volume (Cr-tagged red blood cells) was...

SCHMIDT,ROBERT M., MAMORUKUMADA,AND KIICHI SAGAWA. Curdiovascular responses to various pulsatile pressures in the carotid sinus. Am. J. Physiol. 223 (1): l-7. 1972.-To extend the knowledge of the carotid sinus reflex, we forced the isolated sinuses of anesthetized dogs with sinusoidal (pulsatile) pressures using multiple combinations of mean level, amplitude, and frequency of pulsation. The ref...

Long-range channel prediction is considered to be one of the most important enabling technologies to future wireless communication systems. The prediction of Rayleigh fading channels is studied in the frame of sinusoidal modeling in this paper. A stochastic sinusoidal model to represent a Rayleigh fading channel is proposed. Three different predictors based on the statistical sinusoidal model a...

This paper proposes a fractal sinusoidal model that is able to reduce the bit-rate of sinusoidal model coders while achieving perceptually lossless quality. This is achieved by removing the redundancy between sinusoidal tracks through encoding similar tracks with the transformation between a template track and the original track. This paper proposes a transform that is able to capture the perce...

Toward elucidating how a wavy porous sand bed perturbs a turbulent flow above its surface, we record pressure within a permeable material resembling the region just below desert ripples, contrasting these delicate measurements with earlier studies on similar impermeable surfaces. We run separate tests in a wind tunnel on two sinusoidal porous ripples with aspect ratio of half crest-to-trough am...

The apparently intractable shape of a fold in a compressed elastic film lying on a fluid substrate is found to have an exact solution. Such systems buckle at a nonzero wave vector set by the bending stiffness of the film and the weight of the substrate fluid. Our solution describes the entire progression from a weakly displaced sinusoidal buckling to a single large fold that contacts itself. Th...