This paper focuses on the role of frequency spectral tilt (TL) of the voicing source waveform, the glottal turbulent noise and fluctuations of the source spectrum on period-to-period basis in the cognition of paralinguistic features as in suspicious and disappointed renditions. The TL is closely related to duration of the return phase of the differentiated glottal waveform. Perceptual experimen...

As decision makers, we often need to find solutions to problems that we understand only approximately. For these difficult situations, we consider a model-based approach for a type of analysis, which we term candle lighting analysis, which suggests actions we might take to create new and better options for us. This paper shows how a space of actions can be searched by a genetic algorithm, autom...

Groups of Rainbow smelt were observed spawning in the first riffle in Mohican Canyon upstream of Otsego Lake. Adult smelt were collected with a shore seine on 22 April 2001. Sampled fish (n=17) had an average length of 176.8 mm total length (TL) and weight of 34.2 g. Despite these observations, no larval, juvenile or adult smelt were collected in any trawling or gill netting activities in Otseg...

Essentially, the Darboux proposition is based on the covariance properties of ordinary and partial differential equations with respect to a gauge transformation in the special case of second order differential equations of the SturmLiouville type. In this work, the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with a position-dependent mass (SEPDM) is transformed into a Schrödinger-like equation with a ...

Transfer Learning (TL) aims to transfer knowledge acquired in one problem, the source problem, onto another problem, the target problem, dispensing with the bottom-up construction of the target model. Due to its relevance, TL has gained significant interest in the Machine Learning (ML) community since it paves the way to devise intelligent learning models that can easily be tailored to many dif...