Official Journal Of The European Union L 102 11042006
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| Author | : Pietro Polotti |
| Publisher | : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH |
| Total Pages | : 487 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 383251600X |
Since the 1950s, Sound and Music Computing (SMC) research has had a profound impact on the development of culture and technology in our post-industrial society. SMC research approaches the whole sound and music communication chain from a multidisciplinary point of view. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, modeling, representing and producing sound and music using computational approaches. This book, by describing the state of the art in SMC research, gives hints of future developments, whose general purpose will be to bridge the semantic gap, the hiatus that currently separates sound from sense and sense from sound.
| Author | : Stefan Steidl |
| Publisher | : Logos Verlag Berlin |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation - Sprachverarbeitung - Kind 10-13 Jahre - Gesprochene Sprache - Gefühl - Automatische Klassifikation |
| ISBN | : 9783832521455 |
The recognition of the user's emotion-related state is one important step in making human-machine communication more natural. In this work, the focus is set on mono-modal systems with speech as only input channel. Current research has to shift from emotion portrayals to those states that actually appear in application-oriented scenarios. These states are mainly weak emotion-related states and mixtures of different states. The presented FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus is a major contribution in this area. It is a corpus of spontaneous, emotionally colored speech of children at the age of 10 to 13 years interacting with the Sony robot Aibo. 11 emotion-related states are labeled on the word level. Experiments are conducted on three subsets of the corpus on the word, the turn, and the intermediate chunk level. Best results have been obtained on the chunk level where a classwise averaged recognition rate of almost 70\% for the 4-class problem 'Anger', 'Emphatic', 'Neutral', and 'Motherese' has been achieved. Applying the proposed entropy based measure for the evaluation of decoders, the performance of the machine classifier on the word level is even slightly better than the one of the average human labeler. The presented set of features covers both acoustic and linguistic features. The linguistic features perform slightly worse than the acoustic features. An improvement can be achieved by combining both knowledge sources. The acoustic features are categorized into prosodic, spectral, and voice quality features. The energy and duration based prosodic features and the spectral MFCC features are the most relevant acoustic features in this scenario. Unigram models and bag-of-words features are the most relevant linguistic features.
| Author | : Iris Alvarez-Armas |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2013-01-16 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1118599918 |
Duplex Stainless Steels (DSSs) are chromium-nickel-molybdenum-iron alloys that are usually in proportions optimized for equalizing the volume fractions of austenite and ferrite. Due to their ferritic-austenitic microstructure, they possess a higher mechanical strength and a better corrosion resistance than standard austenitic steels. This type of steel is now increasing its application and market field due to its very good properties and relatively low cost. This book is a review of the most recent progress achieved in the last 10 years on microstructure, corrosion resistance and mechanical strength properties, as well as applications, due to the development of new grades. Special attention will be given to fatigue and fracture behavior and to proposed models to account for mechanical behavior. Each subject will be developed in chapters written by experts recognized around the international industrial and scientific communities. The use of duplex stainless steels has grown rapidly in the last 10 years, particularly in the oil and gas industry, chemical tankers, pulp and paper as well as the chemical industry. In all these examples, topics like welding, corrosion resistance and mechanical strength properties (mainly in the fatigue domain) are crucial. Therefore, the update of welding and corrosion properties and the introduction of topics like texture effects, fatigue and fracture strength properties, and mechanical behavior modeling give this book specific focus and character.
| Author | : Suresh C. Pillai |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2017-02-16 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 3319501445 |
This volume provides expert coverage of the state-of-the-art in sol-gel materials for functional applications in energy, environment and electronics. The use of sol-gel technology has become a hotbed for cutting edge developments in many fields due to the accessibility of advanced materials through low energy processes. The book offers a broad view of this growing research area from basic science through high-level applications with the potential for commercialization and industrial use. Taking an integrated approach, expert chapters present a wide range of topics, from photocatalysts, solar cells and optics, to thin films and materials for energy storage and conversion, demonstrating the combined use of chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering in the search for solutions to some of the most challenging problems of our time.
| Author | : Laura Solieri |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2009-08-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 8847008662 |
Vinegars can be considered as acidic products of special importance for the enri- ment of our diet, and resulting from the desired or controlled oxidation of ethanol containing (liquid) substrates. The traditional use and integration of vinegars in numerous cultures can be traced back to ancient times. In fact, the cultural heritage of virtually every civilization includes one or more vinegars made by the souring action (of micro-organisms) following alcoholic fermentation. It has been do- mented that the Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians had experience and tech- cal knowledge in making vinegar from barley and any kind of fruit. Vinegar was very popular both in ancient Greece and Rome, where it was used in food prepa- tions and as remedy against a great number of diseases. In Asia, the first records about vinegar date back to the Zhou Dynasty (1027-221 BC) and probably China’s ancient rice wines may have originally been derived from fruit, for which (malted) rice was substituted later. The historical and geographical success of vinegars is mainly due to the low technology required for their production, and to the fact that several kinds of raw materials rich in sugars may easily be processed to give vinegar. In addition, vi- gars are well-known and accepted as safe and stable commodities that can be c- sumed as beverages, health drinks or added to food as preservatives or as flavo- ing agents.
| Author | : John D. Wright |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2018-10-03 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1482283166 |
Sol-Gel processing methods, first used historically for decorative and constructional materials, were extensively developed in the last century for applications such as glasses, ceramics, catalysts, coatings, composites and fibres. Today they are reaching their full potential, enabling the preparation of new generations of advanced materials not easily accessible by other methods yet using mild, low-energy conditions. The topic is therefore increasingly included in advanced undergraduate, MSc and PhD programmes in the areas of chemistry, physics and materials science. This concise introductory text, written at the advanced undergraduate/first-year postgraduate level, is also suitable as an introduction to the development, mechanisms, chemistry, characterisation methods and applications of the technique. It provides readers with an extensive yet concise grounding in the theory of each area of the subject and details the real and potential applications and the future prospects of sol-gel chemistry.
| Author | : Neil K. Komesar |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1997-01-15 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780226450896 |
Major approaches to law and public policy, ranging from law and economics to the fundamental rights approach to constitutional law, are based on the belief that the identification of the correct social goals or values is the key to describing or prescribing law and public policy outcomes. In this book, Neil Komesar argues that this emphasis on goal choice ignores an essential element—institutional choice. Indeed, as important as determining our social goals is deciding which institution is best equipped to implement them—the market, the political process, or the adjucative process. Pointing out that all three institutions are massive, complex, and imperfect, Komesar develops a strategy for comparative institutional analysis that assesses variations in institutional ability. He then powerfully demonstrates the value of this analytical framework by using it to examine important contemporary issues ranging from tort reform to constitution-making.
| Author | : Otto G. Piringer |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2008-06-25 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3527621431 |
Plastics are the most important class of packaging materials. This successful handbook, now in its second edition, covers all important aspects of plastic packaging and the interdisciplinary knowledge needed by food chemists, pharmaceutical chemists, food technologists, materials scientists, process engineers, and product developers alike. This is an indispensable resource in the search for the optimal plastic packaging. Materials characteristics, additives and their effects, mass transport phenomena, quality assurance, and recent regulatory requirements from FDA and European Commission are covered in detail with ample data.
| Author | : Mark Tushnet |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2005-01-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Historical and contemporary examinations of the constitutional issues raised by war.
| Author | : Beate Hermelin |
| Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781853029325 |
Drawing on 20 years of research, Hermelin describes not just what autistic savants do, but how they do it. In her fascinating and highly informative book she describes her investigations into the nature of the talents of savants who are gifted at poetry, foreign language acquisition, the visual arts, music, and calendar and numerical calculations.
