Thispaper focuses on audio-watermarking authentication and integrity-protection within the context of the speech-data transmitted over the Internet in a real-time learning environment.The Arabic Quran recitation through distance learning is used as a case-study example that is characteristic of sensitive data requiring robust authentication and integrity measures. Thisworkproposes an approach f...

An investigation was carried out comparing the nature and duration of the cognitive effects of atropine and hyoscine. Thirty patients undergoing a minor gynaecological operation were randomly assigned to one of three groups to receive hyoscine, atropine or placebo as premedication. A battery of psychological tests was administered before premedication, 30 min after premedication, and 1 and 3 h ...

This contribution begins with reciting the facts behind the resignation of the European Commission under Jacques Santer, followed by theoretical considerations on the significance of trust and reputation from the principal-agent-theory perspective. The third part puts the emphasis on discussing as to which extent a loss of trust and reputation had an influence in the resignation of the Santer-C...

This paper analyses the chanting of 21 fivesyllable modern-style poems, which is Chinese traditional style of poem reciting which has long history and special melody. The phonetic analysis of chanting and its relationship with poetic metrics has not yet been fully studied. This paper is to find out the prosodic hierarchy according to pause duration, and probe the phonetic features and methods o...

Recitation of the Holy Quran with Tajweed is an essential activity as a Muslim. Reciting Quran correctly indicates the correct meaning of the words of Allah has been received from this significant resource among Muslims. That is why Muslims stress on the Quranic Education since in the early age. It is important to pronounce the letter correctly based on its characteristics as well as the articu...

The current mode of teaching English in primary and secondary schools China mainly revolves around reciting words studying grammar, which are not only less efficient, but also very uninteresting to the students. This paper, by referring Input Hypothesis proposed Stephen D. Krashen some previous studies, discovers that introducing graded readers elementary ESL classrooms can effectively build up...

Field sobriety tests have been used by law enforcement officers to identify alcohol-impaired drivers. Yet in 1981 Tharp, Burns, and Moskowitz found that 32% of individuals in a laboratory setting who were judged to have an alcohol level above the legal limit actually were below the level. In this study, two groups of seven law enforcement officers each viewed videotapes of 21 sober individuals ...

Advertisement is the major way of promoting sales. To achieve this aim, the AD language gets used to reinforce the effect with the help of rhetoric devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, pun, rhyme, etc. In term of the difference between English and Chinese, some translation methods including Literal Translantion, Free Translation and Modulation could be skillfully used during the t...

Automatic speech segmentation is an essential tool for building large corpora for training continuous speech recognition systems. Manual segmentation of speech is both time consuming and an error-prone task. Several automatic segmentation systems have been proposed based on the acoustical features of the speech 5] 11]. In this paper, we present a novel technique for automatic seg-mentation of A...

Recordings were made of female teachers reciting congruent and contradictory messages. In the congruent condition, the verbal and tonal elements of the communication were consistent. With the contradictory speech, however, the tone of voice was incongruent with the words spoken. All the congruent and contradictory vocal expressions were arranged in random order on a single tape and played to "n...