In the context of the realisation of a Text-To-Speech[1] system for Irish[2], a new algorithm for speech synthesis has been developed. This algorithm, which achieves synthesis by concatenation of diphones, is based principally on two classical signal processing techniques: the linear prediction and the Overlap and Add (OLA). Unlike the well-known TD-PSOLA method, no pitch marking is required; i...

My talk is divided into five parts. In the first part the relevance of the chiral fermion issue to fundamental particle physics and to numerical QCD will be explained. In the second part the basic ideas of the overlap construction will be reviewed. In the third part I shall focus on the algebraic (as opposed to kinematic) meaning of the overlap. In the fourth part I shall discuss in greater det...

Figure 1. Diagram of a split-marker gene replacement strategy using fusion-PCR (A) FPCR step 1 amplification of flanking regions and partial marker segments. Dotted tails indicate the overlap sequences on selected primers which allow fusion in step 2. (B) FPCR step 2 flanking regions are fused to the marker segments at the overlap sights, forming two constructs. The fusion products are then amp...

Overlap of computations and communications is an effective mechanism to improve the performance of parallel/distributed applications significantly. This overlap can be achieved efficiently by using data partitioning and properly scheduling the data transfer. Various asynchronous communication primitives, that are provided by most message passing tools (e.g. PVM, MPI), can be used to implement t...

BACKGROUND The role of flow cytometry (FCM) in diagnosing myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) remains controversial, because analysis of myeloid maturation may involve subjective interpretation of sometimes subtle patterns on multiparameter FCM. METHODS Using six-parameter marker combinations known to be useful in evaluating the myeloid compartment in MDS, we measured objective immunophenotypic d...

We present a statistical analysis of the problem of ordering large genomic cloned libraries through overlap detection based on restriction fingerprinting. Such ordering projects involve a large investment of effort involving many repetitious experiments. Our primary purpose here is to provide methods of maximizing the efficiency of such efforts. To this end, we adopt a statistical approach that...

A new information-theoretic learning algorithm is introduced for kernel-based topographic map formation. The kernels are allowed to overlap and move freely in the input space, and to have differing kernel ranges. We start with Linsker's infomax principle and observe that it cannot be readily extended to our case, exactly due to the presence of kernels. We then consider Bell and Sejnowski's gene...

Ablation guided by focal impulse and rotor mapping (FIRM) is an alternative treatment for atrial fibrillation in particular for persistent atrial fibrillation. To this end, a basket catheter comprising 64 electrodes is inserted into both the right atrium and left atrium under X-ray guidance to locate electric anomalies. The 3-D positions of the electrodes are needed to determine the ablation re...