Construction of Identity and Time Perspective for College Students

Past studies dealing with the effects of time perspective on identity construction have lacked a time integration point of view. This paper presents the effects from the perspective of college students and arrives at the following conclusions. (1) Achievement and diffusion status have intermixed both high and low time integration groups. (2) However, foreclosure status has a relatively high integration, whereas moratorium status has a low integration. The above conclusions suggest that for foreclosure and moratorium status, time integration is more important as compared to achievement and diffusion status. On the other hand, some problems are indicated on the scale with respect to categorizing four identity statuses. Finally, the paper discusses several suggestions for future studies

Quantum Phase Transitions of the Distorted Diamond Spin Chain

The frustrated quantum spin system on the distorted diamond chain lattice suitable for the alumoklyuchevskite is investigated using the numerical diagonalization of finite-size clusters and the level spectroscopy analysis. It is found that this model exhibits three quantum phases; the ferrimagnetic phase, the spin gap one, and the gapless Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid depending on the exchange coupling parameters. The ground state phase diagram is presented.Comment: to be published in JPS Conf. Se

Magnetization Plateau of the Distorted Diamond Spin Chain

The frustrated quantum spin system on the distorted diamond chain lattice is investigated using the numerical diagonalization of finite-size clusters and the level spectroscopy analysis. In the previous work this system was revealed to exhibit the 1/3 magnetization plateau due to two different mechanisms depending on the coupling parameters, and the phase diagram at the 1/3 magnetization was obtained. In the present work it is found that the 1/3 magnetization plateau vanishes for sufficiently large $XY$-like coupling anisotropy. The phase diagram based on the level spectroscopy analysis is also presented.Comment: to be published in JPS Conference Proceeding

CAPTDURE: Captioned Sound Dataset of Single Sources

In conventional studies on environmental sound separation and synthesis using captions, datasets consisting of multiple-source sounds with their captions were used for model training. However, when we collect the captions for multiple-source sound, it is not easy to collect detailed captions for each sound source, such as the number of sound occurrences and timbre. Therefore, it is difficult to extract only the single-source target sound by the model-training method using a conventional captioned sound dataset. In this work, we constructed a dataset with captions for a single-source sound named CAPTDURE, which can be used in various tasks such as environmental sound separation and synthesis. Our dataset consists of 1,044 sounds and 4,902 captions. We evaluated the performance of environmental sound extraction using our dataset. The experimental results show that the captions for single-source sounds are effective in extracting only the single-source target sound from the mixture sound.Comment: Accepted to INTERSPEECH202

Onoma-to-wave: Environmental sound synthesis from onomatopoeic words

In this paper, we propose a framework for environmental sound synthesis from onomatopoeic words. As one way of expressing an environmental sound, we can use an onomatopoeic word, which is a character sequence for phonetically imitating a sound. An onomatopoeic word is effective for describing diverse sound features. Therefore, using onomatopoeic words for environmental sound synthesis will enable us to generate diverse environmental sounds. To generate diverse sounds, we propose a method based on a sequence-to-sequence framework for synthesizing environmental sounds from onomatopoeic words. We also propose a method of environmental sound synthesis using onomatopoeic words and sound event labels. The use of sound event labels in addition to onomatopoeic words enables us to capture each sound event's feature depending on the input sound event label. Our subjective experiments show that our proposed methods achieve higher diversity and naturalness than conventional methods using sound event labels

Environmental sound synthesis from vocal imitations and sound event labels

One way of expressing an environmental sound is using vocal imitations, which involve the process of replicating or mimicking the rhythm and pitch of sounds by voice. We can effectively express the features of environmental sounds, such as rhythm and pitch, using vocal imitations, which cannot be expressed by conventional input information, such as sound event labels, images, or texts, in an environmental sound synthesis model. In this paper, we propose a framework for environmental sound synthesis from vocal imitations and sound event labels based on a framework of a vector quantized encoder and the Tacotron2 decoder. Using vocal imitations is expected to control the pitch and rhythm of the synthesized sound, which only sound event labels cannot control. Our objective and subjective experimental results show that vocal imitations effectively control the pitch and rhythm of synthesized sounds.Comment: Submitted to ICASSP202