Editor\u27s Notebook

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 13, Issue 1 (2014)

Editor’s Notebook: Ten Years of The Goose

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 14, Issue 2 (2015): Tenth Anniversary Issue

Phoneme Recognition Using Acoustic Events

This paper presents a new approach to phoneme recognition using nonsequential sub--phoneme units. These units are called acoustic events and are phonologically meaningful as well as recognizable from speech signals. Acoustic events form a phonologically incomplete representation as compared to distinctive features. This problem may partly be overcome by incorporating phonological constraints. Currently, 24 binary events describing manner and place of articulation, vowel quality and voicing are used to recognize all German phonemes. Phoneme recognition in this paradigm consists of two steps: After the acoustic events have been determined from the speech signal, a phonological parser is used to generate syllable and phoneme hypotheses from the event lattice. Results obtained on a speaker--dependent corpus are presented.Comment: 4 pages, to appear at ICSLP'94, PostScript version (compressed and uuencoded

The Environmental Humanities in a Post-Truth World

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 15, Issue 2 (2017)

Superconducting switch permits measurement of small voltages at cryogenic temperatures

Dual-coil, superconducting, on-off switch measures small, thermoelectrically generated voltages produced by thermocouples in a liquid helium bath. Placed in a shunt configuration between the thermocouple and the measuring device, the measuring device sees the sum of the voltage to be measured and the spurious thermoelectric voltages

Responding to a Racist Climate: An Editorial

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 16, Issue 1 (2017)

Measurements of thermoelectric power in annealed and quenched gold-platinum alloys

Report gives measurements of absolute thermoelectric powers of dilute gold-platinum alloys and influence of quenched-in lattice vacancies on their thermoelectric powers. It investigates phonon-drag component of thermoelectric power as a function of platinum concentration, and change in phonon-drag thermoelectric power by lattice vacancies

Editor\u27s Notebook

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 15, Issue 1 (2016)

Dark Stories: Poet-Audience Relations and the Journey Underground in Margaret Atwood’s The Door and Other Works

The depiction of the underground journey, being more suggestive of a continuous process of exploration than it is of a transition from one discrete state to another, tempers the uneasy separation that Margaret Atwood often attempts to envision between normal and creative consciousness. Atwood has referred to Northrop Frye’s connections between the unconscious mind and the creative imagination – that “there may be imaginative rewards not afforded by the waking consciousness.” Knowledge gained in unseen realms may be a matter of moving through the darkness: continuously inhabiting both the past and the present at all times. By casting the poetic project as a voyage into a dark underworld – a voyage all people take in one form or another – the poems in The Door develop a subtle yet important case for complicating normative understandings of the poet and the audience. In doing so, they problematize the assumption that there can be a clear distinction between the two