Cardiovascular Effects of Vibration Semiannual Report, 1 Aug. 1965 - 28 Feb. 1966

Vibration induced cardiovascular changes in anesthetized dog

Combining vocal tract length normalization with hierarchial linear transformations

Recent research has demonstrated the effectiveness of vocal tract length normalization (VTLN) as a rapid adaptation technique for statistical parametric speech synthesis. VTLN produces speech with naturalness preferable to that of MLLR-based adaptation techniques, being much closer in quality to that generated by the original av-erage voice model. However with only a single parameter, VTLN captures very few speaker specific characteristics when compared to linear transform based adaptation techniques. This paper pro-poses that the merits of VTLN can be combined with those of linear transform based adaptation in a hierarchial Bayesian frame-work, where VTLN is used as the prior information. A novel tech-nique for propagating the gender information from the VTLN prior through constrained structural maximum a posteriori linear regres-sion (CSMAPLR) adaptation is presented. Experiments show that the resulting transformation has improved speech quality with better naturalness, intelligibility and improved speaker similarity. Index Terms — Statistical parametric speech synthesis, hidden Markov models, speaker adaptation, vocal tract length normaliza-tion, constrained structural maximum a posteriori linear regression 1

And All Around Was Darkness

Design of punk anthology of independent writing and artwork, published by Itchy Monkey Press, 2017

L’eterno abietto: le classi popolari napoletane nelle rappresentazioni del Partito Comunista Italiano

This article examines the complex albeit rarely studied relationship between the PCI/PDS and the so-called ‘popular classes’ in Naples from the end of the Second World War to 1998. Despite the fact that the party after 1958 consistently received more votes in Naples than in Milan or Rome, the popular classes would always represent a dilemma for the Neapolitan institutional Left and its way of thinking about the city. On the one hand, the mobilization of the ‘lumpen’ city was considered a crucial goal for a communist politics, on the other, the ‘pre-political’ forms of life of the city’s subaltern classes were seen to pose an obstacle to such a project. Through an analysis of the writings of local party leaders and the communist daily press, the article illustrates how the relationship between the Left and the popular classes was reconfigured over time: from the aim of building class consciousness among the ‘lumpenproletariat’ to the goal, during the 1990s, of inculcating ‘civic consciousness’ among the Neapolitan people

Manifest domains:analysis and description

Abstract We show that manifest domains, an understanding of which are a prerequisite for software requirements prescriptions, can be precisely described: narrated and formalised. We show that such manifest domains can be understood as a collection of endurant, that is, basically spatial entities: parts, components and materials, and perdurant, that is, basically temporal entities: actions, events and behaviours. We show that parts can be modeled in terms of external qualities whether: atomic or composite parts, having internal qualities: unique identifications, mereologies, which model relations between parts, and attributes. We show that the manifest domain analysis endeavour can be supported by a calculus of manifest domain analysis prompts: is_entity, is_endurant, is_perdurant, is_part, is_component, is_material, is_atomic, is_composite, has_components, has_materials, has_concrete_type, attribute_names, is_stationary, etcetera; and show how the manifest domain description endeavour can be supported by a calculus of manifest domain description prompts: observe_part_sorts, observe_part_type, observe_components, observe_materials, observe_unique_identifier, observe_mereology, observe_attributes. We show how to model attributes, essentially following Michael Jackson (Software requirements &amp; specifications: a lexicon of practice, principles and prejudices. ACM Press, Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1995 ), but with a twist: The attribute model introduces the attribute analysis prompts is_static_attribute, is_dynamic_attribute, is_inert_attribute, is_reactive_attribute, is_active_attribute, is_autonomous_attribute, is_biddable_attribute and is_programmable_attribute. The twist suggests ways of modeling “access” to the values of these kinds of attributes: the static attributes by simply “copying” them, once, the reactive and programmable attributes by “carrying” them as function parameters whose values are kept always updated, and the remaining, the external_attributes, by inquiring, when needed, as to their value, as if they were always offered on CSP-like channels (Hoare, Communicating sequential processes. C.A.R. Hoare series in computer science. Prentice-Hall International, London, 2004 ). We show how to model essential aspects of perdurants in terms of their signatures based on the concepts of endurants. And we show how one can “compile” descriptions of endurant parts into descriptions of perdurant behaviours. We do not show prompt calculi for perdurants. The above contributions express a method with principles, techniques and tools for constructing domain descriptions. It is important to realise that we do not wish to nor claim that the method can describe all that it is interesting to know about domains. </jats:p

Sistem Energi Angin Skala Kecil Untuk Pedesaan

Energi angin adalah sumber energi terbarukan yang telah dimanfaatkan selama lebih dari seabad. Pemanfaatan teknologi energi angin skala kecil dapat diterapkan di pedesaan atau didaerah terpencil yang tidak memiliki jaringan listrik. Potensi angin yang tersedia merupakan dasar pertimbangan desain dan penerapan sistem. Kincir angin sederhana telah digunakan secara luas terutama untuk pemompaan pada tambak garam dan di pedesaan. Pemanfaatan kincir angin atau turbin angin lebih menguntungkan dibandingkan dengan pemanfaatan mesin diesel, photovoltaik atau penambahan jaringan listrik. Biaya awal sistem energi angin yang belum terjangkau oleh masyarakat pedesaan perlu dicarikan solusinya. Makalah juga menguraikan penerapan berbagai teknologi energi angin di Indonesia dan upaya pengembangan sistem dan penyebarluasannya

A direct alkylation route to branched derivatives of suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA), a potent non-selective inhibitor of histone deacetylases

Alkylation of malonamic esters provides a direct approach to derivatives of suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) that are branched at the amide carbon atom, a location pivotal for enhancing biological and therapeutic activity. Alkylations use NaH in THF followed by addition of the ester of 6-bromohexanoic acid; no protection of the amidic NH group is necessary. By this means, carboxylic acid, ester, amide, hydroxymethyl and 2-benzimidazolyl branching units have been appended to the SAHA backbone. Routes to vary one of the branching units at a time have been developed