41,172 research outputs found
The Contract for College
Rising college costs, combined with major policy changes in financial aid, have made college less affordable for today's generation of young people. The Contract for College would unify the existing three strands of federal financial aid--grants, loans and work-study--into a coherent, guaranteed financial aid package for students
Space related biological and information studies Annual report, Mar. 1968 - Mar. 1969
Space related biotelemetry research - multichannel implantable telemeter, subcarrier oscillator, and ion concentration transducer
Space and related biological and instrumentation studies
Research and experimental effort was carried out on high-density photo-optical recorder design, implantable pH electrodes and the mangetic/doppler blood-flow sensor
Turbulence and turbulent mixing in natural fluids
Turbulence and turbulent mixing in natural fluids begins with big bang
turbulence powered by spinning combustible combinations of Planck particles and
Planck antiparticles. Particle prograde accretions on a spinning pair releases
42% of the particle rest mass energy to produce more fuel for turbulent
combustion. Negative viscous stresses and negative turbulence stresses work
against gravity, extracting mass-energy and space-time from the vacuum.
Turbulence mixes cooling temperatures until strong-force viscous stresses
freeze out turbulent mixing patterns as the first fossil turbulence. Cosmic
microwave background temperature anisotropies show big bang turbulence fossils
along with fossils of weak plasma turbulence triggered as plasma photon-viscous
forces permit gravitational fragmentation on supercluster to galaxy mass
scales. Turbulent morphologies and viscous-turbulent lengths appear as linear
gas-proto-galaxy-clusters in the Hubble ultra-deep-field at z~7. Proto-galaxies
fragment into Jeans-mass-clumps of primordial-gas-planets at decoupling: the
dark matter of galaxies. Shortly after the plasma to gas transition,
planet-mergers produce stars that explode on overfeeding to fertilize and
distribute the first life.Comment: 23 pages 12 figures, Turbulent Mixing and Beyond 2009 International
Center for Theoretical Physics conference, Trieste, Italy. Revision according
to Referee comments. Accepted for Physica Scripta Topical Issue to be
published in 201
Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using two-pass decision tree construction
This paper demonstrates how unsupervised cross-lingual adaptation of HMM-based speech synthesis models may be performed without explicit knowledge of the adaptation data
language. A two-pass decision tree construction technique is deployed for this purpose. Using parallel translated datasets, cross-lingual and intralingual adaptation are compared in a controlled manner. Listener evaluations reveal that the
proposed method delivers performance approaching that of unsupervised intralingual adaptation
Recommended from our members
How Useful are High-Precision Delta ?17O Data in Defining the Asteroidal Sources of Meteorites?: Evidence from Main-Group Pallasites, Primitive and Differentiated Achondrites
High-precision oxygen isotope analysis is capable of revealing important information about the relationship between different meteorite groups. New data confirm that the main-group pallasites are from a distinct source to either the HEDs or mesosiderites
Instrumentation for Biological Research, Volume I, Sections 1 to 3 Final Report, Nov. 9, 1964 - Mar. 31, 1966
Bioinstrumentation for controlling and measuring parameters interacting with biological syste
Generalised action-angle coordinates defined on island chains
Straight-field-line coordinates are very useful for representing magnetic
fields in toroidally confined plasmas, but fundamental problems arise regarding
their definition in 3-D geometries because of the formation of islands and
chaotic field regions, ie non-integrability. In Hamiltonian dynamical systems
terms these coordinates are a form of action-angle variables, which are
normally defined only for integrable systems. In order to describe 3-D magnetic
field systems, a generalisation of this concept was proposed recently by the
present authors that unified the concepts of ghost surfaces and
quadratic-flux-minimising (QFMin) surfaces. This was based on a simple
canonical transformation generated by a change of variable , where and are poloidal and toroidal
angles, respectively, with a new poloidal angle chosen to give
pseudo-orbits that are a) straight when plotted in the plane and
b) QFMin pseudo-orbits in the transformed coordinate. These two requirements
ensure that the pseudo-orbits are also c) ghost pseudo-orbits. In the present
paper, it is demonstrated that these requirements do not \emph{uniquely}
specify the transformation owing to a relabelling symmetry. A variational
method of solution that removes this lack of uniqueness is proposed.Comment: 10 pages. Accepted by Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion as part of
a cluster of refereed papers in a special issue containing papers arising
from the Joint International Stellarator & Heliotron Workshop and
Asia-Pacific Plasma Theory Conference, held in Canberra and Murramarang
Resort, Australia, 30 January - 3 February, 201
- …