B. Liu, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, K-U. Bamberg, W. J. Ma, J. Liu, X. T. He, X. Q. Yan, and H. Ruhl Institute for Computational and Plasma Physics, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet, 80333 Muenchen, Germany Key Laboratory of HEDP of the Ministry of Education, CAPT, and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Institute of Applied Physics and Computat...

S. V. Bulanov1,†, T. Zh. Esirkepov1, J. K. Koga1, S. S. Bulanov2, Z. Gong3, X. Q. Yan3,4 and M. Kando1 1Department of Advanced Photon Research, Kansai Photon Research Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa-shi, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan 2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 3State Key Laboratory of Nucle...

Generally, a search usually isn’t commenced until a boat is overdue for more than 24hours. Fortunately for the passengers and crew of the fishing boat “COUGAR”, which sunk 13°C (56°F) water, 35 miles off the coast of Oregon in September 1998, the absence of a normally punctilious individual, Capt Liddell, from a meeting raised the alarm and triggered the search. He, along with five others, was ...

\v is are very glad to welcome another and up-to-date edition of Birch's Children in India. We well remember our first child patient in India and how the mother quoted fluently Birch's book. We went home and promptly wired to Calcutta for a copy of this most useful work. The new edition is edited by Lt.-Col. C. R. M. Green, F.R.C.S., and Capt. V. B. Green-Army tage, m.d., and forms a very relia...

Pronunciation training is an important part of Computer Assisted Training (CAPT) systems. Mispronunciation detection systems recognized pronunciation mistakes from user’s speech and provided them feedback about their pronunciation. Acoustic phonetic features plays a vital role in classification based applications. This research work investigated the suitability various acoustic features: pitch,...

Over two hundred years ago Capt. James Cook sailed upWhitsunday Passage, just a few miles where we now sit, on a voyage of astronomical observation and discovery that remains an inspiration to us all. Since the prospects of our visiting planets beyond our solar system are slim, we will have to content ourselves with searching for life using remote sensing, not sailing ships. Fortunately, a rece...

ous and useful modified Wright's capsule for culture of the malarial parasites in vitro, and comments on the accidental presence of free living protozoa in old distilled water as a possible fallacy in the thick film method of examination. Capt. R. N. Raja draws attention to the ease and simplicity with which postmortem examinations for cerebral malaria may be carried out by making and staining ...

For the purpose of developing Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) technology with more informative feedbacks, we propose to use a set of narrowphonetic labels to annotate Chinese L2 speech database of Japanese learners. The labels include basic units of “Initials”, “Finals” for Chinese phonemes and diacritics for erroneous articulation tendencies. Pilot investigations were made on t...

This paper addresses the issue of manual transcription of non native speech in an attempt to establish rule-based strategies for labelling intermediate realizations. The problems of transcribing non canonical realizations of L2 sounds which present shared features of the target (Spanish) and the source language (Japanese) will be considered. We introduce a Japanese accented non native L2 Spanis...