Nama (a variety of Khoekhoegowab), is a Khoe (Khoisan) language of Namibia. Nama uses an extensive segmental inventory, including click consonants contrasting in four places and five manners of articulation [1]. Click production in Khoisan languages has been examined using palatography [2, 3, 4], Xray [4], and ultrasound [5, 6]; however, the phonetic characterization of different clicks produce...

Digitartic, a system for bi-manual gestural control of VowelConsonant-Vowel performative singing synthesis is presented. This system is an extension of a real-time gesture-controlled vowel singing instrument developed in the Max MSP language. In addition to pitch, vowels and voice strength controls, Digitartic is designed for gestural control of articulation parameters, including various places...

[1] Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected]   [1] Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected]   Lot-sizing problems (LSPs) belong to the class of production planning problems in which the availability quantities of the production plan are always considered as a decision variable. This paper aims at developing a new mathematical model for the multi-level ca...

People often use spontaneous gestures when communicating spatial information. We investigated focal brain-injured individuals to test the hypotheses that (1) naming motion event components of manner-path (represented by verbs-prepositions in English) are impaired selectively, (2) gestures compensate for impaired naming. Patients with left or right hemisphere damage (LHD or RHD) and elderly cont...

The innate immune system is essential for the initial detection of invading viruses and subsequent activation of adaptive immunity. Three classes of receptors, designated retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I)-like receptors (RLRs), Toll-like receptors (TLRs), and nucleotide oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors (NLRs), sense viral components, such as double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), single-s...