This study discusses the detection of primary Stir Sticks stress in continuous speech in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) using the West Point corpus (Morgan et al.2008), and compressed representations of the speech signal (MFCCs, modelled by HMM-GMMs), as implemented in the toolkit Kaldi (Povey et al.2011).An acoustic model of BP was trained using 5-fold

Roadside habitats are important for a range of taxa including plants, insects, mammals, and birds, particularly in developed countries in which large expanses of native vegetation have been cleared for agriculture or urban development.Although roadside vegetation may provide suitable habitat for many species, resident animals can be exposed to high

In this paper a novel modelling and solving method has been developed to address the so-called resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) where project tasks have multiple modes and also the preemption of activities are allowed.To solve this NP-hard problem, a new general optimization via simulation (OvS) approach has been developed wh

Genetic variants within the endothelin-1 gene (EDN1) Used Catchers have been associated with several cardiovascular diseases and may act as genetic prognostic markers.Here, we explored the overall relevance of EDN1 polymorphisms for long-term survival in patients undergoing on-pump cardiac surgery.A prospectively collected cohort of 455 Caucasian p

Hypersonic aircraft represent an important area of aerospace development.Raising the aircraft lift-to-drag ratio, improving the efficiency of attitude control, and optimizing aerodynamic performance are important Champagne Flutes goals.Active flow control technology can improve the aerodynamic performance of the aircraft while optimizing its contro