This study concerned the relationship between the prosodic feature, especially F0, and the listeners’ identification of contexts. It became obvious that duration and F0 range are the important cues to guess speakers’ emotional state or contexts [1, 2, 3, 4]. However, as the stimuli used were designed to keep F0 average constant, we could not see the effect of big F0 range and high F0 components...

Irinotecan (IRN), a topoisomerase I interactive agent, has significant antitumor activity in early Phase I studies in children with recurrent solid tumors. However, the disposition of IRN and its metabolites, SN-38 and APC, in children has not been reported. Children with solid tumors refractory to conventional therapy received IRN by a 1-h i.v. infusion at either 20, 24, or 29 mg/m2 daily for ...

The structure multivector is an operator for analysing the local structure of an image. It combines ideas from the structure tensor, steerable filters, and quadrature filters where the advantages of all three approaches are brought into a single method by means of geometric algebra. The proposed operator is efficient to implement and linear up to a final steering operation. In this paper we der...

The contribution of social partnership to Ireland’s economic boom remains the subject of controversy. This paper analyses at a theoretical level how a multi-period deal on wages and taxation of the type struck in the late 1980s could enhance competitiveness and facilitate an economy in escaping from fiscal crisis. Such a deal would not be possible in a spot labour market. The high unemployment ...

This paper investigates the factors that determine job-to-job mobility in Ireland over the period 1995 to 2001. It finds that labour market experience, working in the public sector, whether a person is overskilled, the sector they work in and their occupation are important determinants of voluntary job change. The paper finds the rate of voluntary job mobility in Ireland trebled over the period...