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Correlation Between Voice, Speech, Body and Facial Types in Young Adults

Introduction: Body proportions have been an issue since Ancient times. It started with an interest for personal aesthetics, followed by the concern for selecting the most skillful and physically prepared warriors afterwards. Measurement methods were improved over time, resulting in the emergence of biotypology and biometry, which differentiates individuals among themselves in a higher level when compared to age, gender or social factors. Objective: To correlate voice, speech, biotype and facial type measures. Method: The study was conducted on 124 individual’s college students, with mean age 22 years old. The sample was divided in three groups, according to biotype, and all individuals were submitted to anthropometric and vocal evaluation. The anthropometric evaluation consisted of body and facial type. Voice evaluation consisted of sustained phonation and acoustic analysis. All voice records were carried out and analyzed on an acoustic program PRAAT. Statistical analysis was performed by ANOVA and Pearson Correlation (0.05 significance level). Results: A relationship was found in men between body type and F1 /i/ (p < 0.001, correlation -53.9%) and with F1 /a/ and F3 /u/ (p = 0.05 e p = 0.035, respectively). There was also relationship between F3 and facial types, with higher F3 values in men with short faces and women with long faces. Conclusion: There is interference in F1 and F3 formants shaping by body type and in F3 formant shaping by facial type, concluding that body type reflects in different vocal tract shapes and in final speech product.
Teaching Practical Software Tools Using Screencasts While Simultaneously Reinforcing Theoretical Course Concepts

In this paper, we address a frequent complaint of students in technical fields that they are expected to simultaneously learn course material while learning software tools required for a course. Additionally, the learning of these tools is often expected to be self directed, rather than formally taught. We propose the use of screencasts to teach the software packages while at the same time reinforcing course concepts. We discuss our implementation of such a solution to this problem in a junior level electrical engineering course at an engineering focused university in the northeast. We also present survey responses from students who took the course which demonstrates that they enjoy and benefit from this method.
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Recognising actions in videos relies on labelled supervision during training, typically the start and end times of each action instance. This supervision is not only subjective, but also expensive to acquire. Weak video-level supervision has been successfully exploited for recognition in untrimmed videos, however it is challenged when the number of different actions in training videos increases. We propose a method that is supervised by single timestamps located around each action instance, in untrimmed videos. We replace expensive action bounds with sampling distributions initialised from these timestamps. We then use the classifier’s response to iteratively update the sampling distributions. We demonstrate that these distributions converge to the location and extent of discriminative action segments. We evaluate our method on three datasets for finegrained recognition, with increasing number of different actions per video, and show that single timestamps offer a reasonable compromise between recognition performance and labelling effort, performing comparably to full temporal supervision. Our update method improves top-1 test accuracy by up to 5.4%. across the evaluated datasets.
Effect of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza on Growth and Physiological Behavior of PHL-C Rootstock

PHL-C is one of the dwarf sweet cherry rootstocks which is a hybrid between P. avium L. × P. cerasus L. Direct rooting of sweet cherry rootstocks is difficult which can be solved by using in vitro propagation. Transfer of plantlets from in vitro to ex vitro limit the use of micro propagation, because of weak root systems and low survival rates. This study was conducted in order to select the best biohardening agents in order to improve the growth of PHL-C dwarf rootstocks in Khorasan Razavi Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center. Three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) strains, Diversispora epigaea, Rhizophagus intraradices and Rhizophagus fasciculatus, were used as in vitro raised PHL-C plantlets. Results showed that plantlets inoculated with Diversispora epigaea gave the highest leaf area, root diameter, root surface and phosphor concentration. Diversispora epigaea was more effective in improving most of the growth and physiological attributes of inoculated tissue culture raised plantlets of PHL-C. However, the highest total root length (4113 mm) was found in Rhizophagus fasciculatus inoculated plantlets
Realis / irrealis as basic grammatical distinction in some Southern Arawakan languages Some linguists reject irrealis to be a typologically relevant category

Some linguists reject irrealis to be a typologically relevant category. Bybee (1998: 269) e.g. argued that “the term „irrealis‟ is simply too general to be useful”. This owes to the fact that irrealis as a label is referred to a wide range of different categories, such as potential, optative, counterfactual, future, subjunctive, interrogative, and negative (cf. Frawley 1992). It seems difficult to compare all these functions that apparently operate on different levels of the grammar (cf. Bybee 1998: 265). The irrealis mode may interact with verbal categories, like tense and aspect, with nominal categories, like referentiality and definiteness, or with syntactic and pragmatic operations, like subordination and backgrounding. Secondly, irrealis is in many languages a secondary notion, expressed through an aspectual or temporal category or other constructions. Therefore, experts on the typology of grammaticalized concepts do not consider irrealis to be a universal category (Bybee et al. 1994, Bybee 1998: 264). In contrast, Elliott (2000) argues for a basic grammatical category of reality status. Even though this may not be a universal category, it cannot be ignored, considering its presence in a considerable number of languages of the world. She assumes that “[p]rototypically realis is used in clauses where there is perceived certainty of the factual reality of an event‟s taking place, while irrealis is used to identify that an event is perceived to exist only in an imagined or non-real world” (Elliott 2000: 67). For a number of Southern Arawakan languages, distributed over Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil, the basic distinction between realis and irrealis seems obligatory. This presentation gives an overview of the category of reality status in these languages, which sums up the forms and the application of the markers. Languages of focus are Trinitario, Ignaciano, Baure, Joaquiniano, Paunaka, Terêna, and Nanti. Some of the presented data have only been collected or published recently, so that a comparative study could not have been produced any earlier. In Paunaka, Trinitario, Terêna, Joaquiniano, and historical Baure, irrealis is marked obligatorily by a floating affix a-/-a, which is attached according to verb classes (active vs. stative basically). Realis, on the other hand, is the unmarked category.
Formation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles i Formation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

In a robot team, one of the essential factors to achieve cooperation is its capacity to maintain any desired geometric configuration, by using appropriate control techniques for the relative poses between teammates. Formation control methods must be robust to several types of disturbances, so that the desired geometry is achieved. But, at the same time, it must be flexible enough to change its geometry, so that the team can handle environment spacial constraints (e.g., moving from an open area to a narrow corridor). Artificial potential fields control methods, based on harmonic functions were chosenas the control method for formations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), specifically quadrotors. The first part of this thesis presents the concept of a quadrotor vehicle, by defining its kinematics and its dynamics, and also presents the study and development of several control methods. Both implemented in Simulink. The second part firstly describes the panel method based on harmonic potential functions and lastly presents the formation control method with UAVs. Finally, in the last part of this thesis the results of flight tests with a real quadrotor are presented.
3D Teleconferencing

This report summarizes the work done to develop a 3D teleconferencing system, which enables remote participants anywhere in the world to be scanned in 3D, transmitted and displayed on a 3D display with correct vertical and horizontal parallax, correct eye contact and eye gaze. The main focus of my work, and thus this report, has been the development of this system and especially how to in an efficient and general manner render to the novel 3D display. The 3D display is built out of modified commodity hardware and show a 3D scene for observers in up to 360 degrees around it and all heights. The result is a fully working 3D Teleconferencing system, resembling communication envisioned in movies such as holograms from Star Wars. The system transmits over the internet, at similar bandwidth requirements to concurrent 2D video conferencing systems.
Insights Into The Acoustic Near And Far Field Based On Synchronized PIV And Microphone Measurements

The aim of this study is to detect and visualize the propagating sound waves emanating from a flow around different types of rods. For this purpose, synchronous Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and microphone measurements were performed in an aeroacoustic wind tunnel. The velocity fluctuations were recorded not only in the vicinity of the rods but also in several regions between the wake flow field and the far field microphone. By means of the correlation between velocity and pressure fluctuations, coherent structures within and outside the flow could be identified. In particular, the temporal and spatial development of these structures provides an insight into the sound generation mechanism and the transition between the acoustic near and far field. The results are compared with analytical and numerical solutions.
JieDu TongLuo ( JDTL ) treatment regimen delays myocardial fibrosis in rats by inhibiting chymase activity

In this research, the animal model of myocardial necrosis induced by isoproterenol (ISO) in Wistar rats was applied to inform the mechanism of JieDu TongLuo (JDTL) treatment regimen delays myocardial fibrosis in rats by inhibiting chymase activity. The results showed that after treatment with the JDTL regimen for 7 days, the area of both the necrotic foci and the collagen fibres in the myocardium in Wistar rats was reduced significantly. Meanwhile, after 7-day treatment with the JDTL regimen, the myocardial levels of Ang II in every treatment group were reduced as compared with those in the model group rats (P<0.05). Before treatment, the results of toluidine blue staining showed that the number of toluidine blue-positive cells in the myocardial tissue of the ISO model group were significantly higher than that in the normal control group, indicating that chymase activity was substantially increased. Correspondingly, the mRNA and protein expression levels of chymase in the ISO model group increased significantly according to RT-qPCR and Western Blot results (P<0.05). Moreover, after JDTL treatment for 7 days, the number of luidine blue-positive cells in the myocardial tissues and myocardial chymase activity in the treated group were significantly reduced. The expression of chymase mRNA and protein decreased significantly compared with that in the rats in the ISO group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). The expression of chymase mRNA in the myocardium was significantly reduced in the rats treated with the JDTL regimen compared with that in the ISO model group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). In conclusion, the JDTL regimen (detoxification and improvement of the meridian circulation, or TongLuo JieDu) can effectively inhibit collagen fibre formation in the myocardium of rats with myocardial fibrosis.
POSTER: iGLANCE project: free-viewpoint 3D video

The iGLANCE project aims at researching the methods of receiving and rendering of free-view 3D-TV sequences. We describe the ongoing iGLANCE project and introduce the iGLANCE decoding and rendering system. It consists of free viewpoint video interpolation and coding. One of the key components of this system is view interpolation and its related challenges. There are two main application fields within iGLANCE: consumer and medical systems. In this article we discuss an example use case for a medical application that illustrates the need for the research and development in the iGLANCE framework.
Eff ects of microsite variation on growth and adaptive traits in a beech provenance trial

The effects of the within-trial spatial variation of environmental factors on phenotypic traits were studied in the Slovak plot of the international beech provenance trial coordinated by BFH Grosshansdorf with 32 provenances, established under a randomized complete block design with three adjacent blocks. Five indicators of soil properties (soil moisture, bulk density and pH) and microclimate (average daily temperature and temperature amplitude) were assessed at 96 points distributed over a 10 × 10 m grid and their values for the positions of individual trees were estimated by ordinary point kriging. The evaluation of phenotypic variation (height, diameter, Julian days of spring flushing and autumn leaf discoloration, vegetation period length, late frost damage) using a common two-way analysis of variance showed a significant provenance × block interaction effect indicating the heterogeneity of blocks. Analysis of covariance using single-tree kriging estimates of environmental variables as covariates showed that in addition to provenance, all phenotypic traits were significantly affected by microsite, especially by temperature fluctuation. Employing methods incorporating the spatial component in the evaluation of tree breeding field experiments is advocated.
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THE EFFECTS OF OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE , CAPITAL COMBINATION , AND LIQUIDITY ON THE MARKET VALUE OF THE COMPANIES IN THE INDEX OF 50 MOST ACTIVE FIRMS LISTED ON TEHRAN STOCK EXCHANGE

This research aims to study the effects of ownership structure, capital combination, and liquidity on the market value of the companies in the index of 50 most actives firms listed on Tehran Stock Exchange. The statistical population of this research consists of the companies in the index of 50 most active firms listed on Tehran Stock Exchange. All these companies have been selected as the sample of the statistical population for the period from 2001 to 2011. To study the effects of the independent variables including ownership structure, capital combination, and liquidity on the market value of the above-mentioned companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange, the hypotheses are tested by multivariate regression model. The results indicate that the percent of the shares hold by the institutional investors has a positive and significant effect of the market value of the studied companies. However, the share concentration has a significantly negative effect on the market value of the same companies. Moreover, there is no positive and significant relation between capital structure and market value. In addition, liquidity has a positive and significant effect of the market value of the studied companies. Finally, the control variables of this research including Tobin's Q, DPR, and TANG have a positive and significant effect on the market value of the companies studied in this research.
Factors Influencing Depression Endpoints Research ( FINDER ) Results from the Belgian subgroup analysis

Objectives: To investigate the quality-of-life of patients in Belgium from the prospective, observational FINDER study of adult outpatients with depression initiating antidepressant medication. Method: Here we report the post-hoc subgroup analyses of patients enrolled at Belgian sites. Patients completed scales to assess quality of life, severity and chronicity of depression, anxiety and painful symptoms at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months. Results: At baseline, 59.9% of 227 eligible Belgian patients had depression and 69.2% had anxiety. A higher HADS-A and SSI-Pain score and a lower SSISomatic score at baseline predicted lower odds of achieving remission. Higher baseline VAS scores were associated with the severity of nonpainful physical symptoms and previous depressive episodes. The mean mental health score (SF-36 MCS) increased during follow-up, while the mean physical health score (SF-36 PCS) remained stable. Conclusions: Physicians may not differentiate between depressive and anxiety symptoms when initiating antidepressant treatment; anxiety may be a stronger predictor than depression for prescribing antidepressants. The presence of painful and nonpainful somatic symptoms may be predictors of treatment response in depression.
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

Whether you're making the switch from a traditional centralized version control system or are a new programmer just getting started, this book prepares you to start using Git in your everyday programming. Pragmatic Version Control Using Git starts with an overview of version control systems, and shows how being distributed enables you to work more efficiently in our increasingly mobile society. It then progresses through the basics necessary to get started using Git. You'll get a thorough overview of how to take advantage of Git. By the time you finish this book you'll have a firm grounding in how to use Git, both by yourself and as part of a team. Learn how to use how to use Git to protect all the pieces of your project Work collaboratively in a distributed environment Learn how to use Git's cheap branches to streamline your development Install and administer a Git server to share your repository
Implementing and Benchmarking Seven Round 2 Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanisms Using a Software/Hardware Codesign Approach

In this paper we present the results of implementing and benchmarking seven lattice-based key encapsulation mechanisms (KEMs), representing fve NIST PQC Round 2 PQC candidates, using a software/hardware codesign approach. This approach is particularly applicable to the current stage of the NIST PQC standardization process, where the large number and high complexity of the candidate algorithms makes traditional hardware benchmarking extremely challenging. We propose and justify the choice of a suitable platform and design methodology. The results obtained indicate the potential for very substantial speed-ups vs. purely software implementations, reaching 396x for encapsulation and 712x for decapsulation. At the same time these speed-ups depend strongly on the features of each particular algorithm, which leads to noticeable changes in the ranking of evaluated candidates using software/hardware vs. purely-software benchmarking.
Software Cost Estimation using Artificial Intelligence Technique

Estimating the work-effort and the schedule required to develop and/or maintain a software system is one of the most critical activities in managing software projects. Software cost estimation is a challenging task. Estimation by correlation is one of the suitable techniques in software cost estimation field. However, the method used for the estimation of software effort by analogy is not able to handle the categorical data in an explicit and accurate manner. This paper aims to make use of ANFIS, an AI technique to improve the precision of software cost estimation. The data used is the DESHARNAIS dataset from PROMISE Software Engineering Repository. The proposed model performance has been analyzed in terms of MAE, Correlation Coefficient and RMSE. It was seen that the proposed model performed better than the Regression model, having RMSE value of 780.97 against 3007.05 of regression model. Keywords—Software cost estimation, RMSE, ANFIS, MAE
Approche supervisée à base de cellules LSTM bidirectionnelles pour la désambiguïsation lexicale [Supervised Approach Based on Bidirectional LSTM Cells for Word Sense Disambiguation]

En desambiguisation lexicale, l'utilisation des reseaux de neurones est encore peu presente et tres recente. Cette direction est pourtant tres prometteuse, tant les resultats obtenus par ces premiers systemes arrivent systematiquement en tete des campagnes d'evaluation, mal-gre une marge d'amelioration qui semble encore importante. Nous presentons dans cet article une nouvelle architecture a base de reseaux de neurones pour la desambiguisation lexicale. Notre systeme est a la fois moins complexe a entrainer que les systemes neuronaux existants et il obtient des resultats etat de l'art sur la plupart des tâches d'evaluation de la desambi-guisation lexicale en anglais. L'accent est porte sur la reproductibilite de notre systeme et de nos resultats, par l'utilisation d'un modele de vecteurs de mots, de corpus d'apprentissage et d'evaluation librement accessibles.