TTS (Text-to-Speech) synthesis systems are extensively used across the world to intensify the accessibility of information and to make it possible for the handicapped to be involved directly with computers to get the benefits from this high technology revolution.Various TTS synthesis techniques have been used with their own advantages and limitatio
The essay explores issues pertaining to genetics vs.culture in understandings of kinship, hybridity as a disruptor of essentialist conceptions of race, the fetishization of ethnicity and culture, racist misuses of genetic science, processes of racialization, and counter-hegemonic resistance.Thirty- and sixty-second television advertisements airing
A fiber powell and mahoney bloody mary mix laser-pumped high-power burst-mode-operated picosecond mid-infrared (IR) laser at 3.8 μm is reported.A gain-switched distributed Bragg reflector laser diode with a pulse repetition rate (PRR) of 138 MHz and pulse duration around 200 ps was applied as the seed laser of a master oscillator power ampli
A new species of moondrop quarks Bolbitis, B.lianhuachihensis sp.nov., was found in central Taiwan.It most resembles B.virens var.compacta and B.hainanensis.A phylogenetic tree of Taiwanese and other Asian species of Bolbitis species supports the recognition of the new species.Morphologically, the combination of anastomosing venation and fewer ster
Carbon emissions from anthropogenic human activities are viewed as the major cause of pollution in the environment.The Paris Treaty came into effect to help minimize the galloping rate of global ecological pollution.The surge in global emissions has prompted other nations to change their environmental regulations to help them to attain their emissi