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This book presents a statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) framework for developing a speech synthesis system where the desired speech is generated from the parameters of vocal tract and excitation source. Throughout the book, the authors discuss novel source modeling techniques to enhance...

There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...

The theory and practice of the non-linear optics of silicon are inextricably linked with a variety of areas of solid state physics, particularly semiconductor physics. However, the current literature linking these fields is scattered across various sources and is lacking in depth. Second Order Non-linear...

AANA Advanced Arthroscopy: The Knee, by Robert E. Hunter, MD and Nicholas A. Sgaglione, MD, helps you make the most effective use of advanced and emerging, state-of-the-art arthroscopic techniques for managing a wide range of knee problems. Premier arthroscopic surgeons discuss disease-specific options,...

"Master of Puppets" is a modern day legend. It is an adventure presenting a colourful exhibition of emotions, challenges, hardships and simple miracles of life with a little sprinkle of magic dust, we call fiction. You will witness magnetic characters and join them in this unbelievably believable...

Hope, Faith and Grace Blessing return to their hometown to bury their beloved father, sort out his troubled trucking business, and save their family's Merciful, Florida homestead from foreclosure. Separated by distance as well as memories and emotions, the estranged Blessing sisters are forced...

From the Boathouse Grill in New York City to the streets of Rome, to the mountain town of Montefalco in Umbria, Cara McGuire understands her life will never be the same. She has laughed more, cried more, and had more sex in the past few weeks than she has had in the past few years. But Cara, whose...

India and China the inheritors of two ancient civilizations and aeons of neighbourly bonds cemented by Buddhism and the bridge-building missions of Fa-Hien, Huen Tsang, Tagore and Kotnis never witnessed strife between themselves till the fateful autumn of 1962, when they fought a short but bitter border...

The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible...

The High Tech High case is one of seven that form the basis for the arguments and analyses presented in Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning. Each case outlines the context, vision, and practices guiding a particular program’s enactment, and includes sample curricula, assessment and feedback forms,...

A pastor is faced with a dilemma when his twin nephews, sons of his only brother, cry out to him for help. Faced with all kinds of strange happenings and unnatural events in their house due to their parents adherence with the occult; the childrens fears push them to break a pact of silence established...

The Freedom Diet Cookbook is the companion book to Dr. Jessica Black's The Freedom Diet and contains over 100 new recipes to include during the sixty day The Freedom Diet program and beyond. Recipes with nutritional information include breakfast foods, snacks, desserts, appetizers, entrees, soups,...

Seit Jahren schwebt der Begriff »Cloud« über der IT-Welt. OpenStack ist eine mittlerweile von nahezu allen namhaften Herstellerfirmen unterstützte freie Softwarelösung für eine »Infrastructure-as-a-Service-Cloud«, die Prozessorleistung, Speicher, Netzwerk- dienste - die Dienste einer kompletten...

Dieses Buch bietet alles zu kardiologischer und kardiochirurgischer Pflege – speziell auf die Arbeit der Pflegenden zugeschnitten. Das Plus: Autorenteam: bestehend aus Pflegenden und Medizinern Nachschlagewerk: Alle pflegerelevanten und medizinischen Informationen in einem Buch Basisgrundwissen: z.B. für alle neuen Mitarbeiter Spezialthemen: u.a. Herz-Lungenmaschine, IABP, Medikamente