Automatic stress prediction is helpful for both speech synthesis and natural speech understanding. This paper proposes a novel hierarchical Mandarin stress modeling method. The top level emphasizes stressed syllables, while the bottom level focuses on unstressed syllables for the first time due to its importance in both naturalness and expressiveness of synthetic speech. Maximum Entropy model i...

Aims: The aim of the present study was to investigate the causal modeling of death anxiety in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder based on cognitive emotion regulation strategies and experiential avoidance with the mediating role of coping self-efficacy. Instrument & Methods: The research method was descriptive and structural equations. The statistical population of the present study...

This paper discusses the modeling of residual stresses in fracture problems. Historically, residual stress effects in fracture have focused on the crack driving force, so that solely opening mode residual stresses are assumed to influence fracture. However, residual stresses can effect all components of stress at the crack-tip, and can thereby alter crack-tip constraint and influence material t...

The last twenty years witnessed a change in the way emotions are regarded in cognitive sciences. In fact, not only are they now reconsidered as being worthy of being studied, but they have gained a specific status outside of the realm of consciousness. Surprisingly, cognitive architectures have not yet fully benefited from this shift. As stated in [7], unconscious emotions play an essential rol...

In this paper we explore the use of features derived from multiresolution analysis of speech and the Teager Energy Operator for classi cation of drivers' speech under stressed conditions. We apply this set of features to a database of short speech utterances to create userdependent discriminants of four stress categories. In addition we address the problem of choosing a suitable temporal scale ...

using cold working fastener holes is a simple life enhancement procedure that strengthens metallic components by retarding crack growth around a hole. in the present paper, the residual stress field that is induced by the hole expansion process is obtained based on different material models namely elastic perfect plastic, isotropic hardening and kinematic hardening using three-dimensional finit...

Low dimensional and speaker-independent linear vocal tract parametrizations can be obtained using the 3-mode PARAFAC factor analysis procedure first introduced by Harshman et al. (1977). The following study used PARAFAC to investigate the stress distinction in German vowel production. Tongue movements of six German speakers were recorded by means of EMMA. The speech material consisted of the 15...

Study about Fracture Mechanics and the root cause of fracture in order to estimates lifetime for Mechanical parts in designing process and manufacturing have tremendous role in this realm. Stress intensity factor comes into design which not only is dependent to geometry also extremely to load condition; for instance, it is important in failure processes (brittle and ductile Materials) or to pre...

The 2008 banking crisis demonstrated that there is a lack of effective methods for modeling and analyzing “exceptional but plausible” risk scenarios in bank stress testing. Existing stress testing practices mainly focus on modeling probability-based risk factors and events in banking systems using historical data. Rare (low probability) risk events that can cause financial crises in banking sys...