Observations on the Theories of Vowel Sounds

1899 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
John G. M'Kendrick
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Fundamental Tone ◽  
Vocal Cords ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Peculiar Character ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

The quality of the human voice depends on the same laws as those determining the quality, klang-tint, or timbre of the tones produced by any musical instrument. Tones of a mixed character, that is to say, composed of a fundamental and partials, are produced by the vibrations of the true vocal cords, and certain of those partials are strengthened by the resonance of the air in the air-passages, and in the pharyngeal and oral cavities.So strongly may certain of these partials be reinforced, as to obscure or hide the fundamental tone, and give a peculiar character to the sound. These, however, are only general statements, and there are still many difficulties in the way of a true interpretation of voice-tones. In the first place, we observe that we may sing a scale, using one sound for each note, such as la, la, la, etc. Or, by putting the mouth in a certain position, we can pronounce the so-called vowels, a, e, i, o, u (ou as the u in prune), uttering the sounds ah, ā, ē, o, ou. As we do so, we notice that each sound appears to the ear to have a pitch of its own, different from that of the others.

scholarly journals Voice Pathology Identification using Deep Neural Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 7447-7450
Keyword(s):  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ◽  
Vocal Cords ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Quality Of Voice ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Voice Modulation

The human voice construction is a complex biological mechanism capable of Changing pitch and volume. Some Internal or External factors frequently damage the vocal cords and change quality of voice or do some alteration in the voice modulation. The effects are reflected in expression of speech and understanding of information said by the person. So it is important to examine problem at early stages of voice change and overcome from this problem. ML play a major role in identifying whether voice is pathological or normal in nature. Voice features are extracted by Implementing Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) method, and examined on the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to identify the category of voice.

Unrepresentable Justice: Looking for a Postqualitative Theory of Social Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042092226
Author(s):  
Jerry Lee Rosiek
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Social Inquiry ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Performative Contradiction ◽  
Do So ◽  
Rhetorical Tools ◽  
The Way

I believe posthumanist philosophy promises the possibility of a more robustly ethical and political practice of social inquiry. I do not, however, believe analytic and rhetorical tools have been developed that deliver amply on that promise. This is less a reflection on the quality of efforts to do so, than it is on the scope of the challenge before us. Since this is an essay about what “postqualitative means to me,” I speak from within the desire to see that promise more fully realized and the belief that there is much work yet to be done. Simply stating that concern directly and describing the grounds for it, however, would involve a performative contradiction. It would presume the challenge is an epistemic one that yields to better information and clearer representation. The challenge, however, lies within the limitations of representation itself and the way convention compels us to address our scholarship to a humanist spectator subject, as opposed to seeking to transform the subject of address. This essay, therefore, departs from standard prose conventions in an effort to both do and describe what needs to be done.

Rigor With or Without Templates? The Pursuit of Methodological Rigor in Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 109442812093778
Author(s):  
Bill Harley ◽  
Joep Cornelissen
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Reasoning Process ◽  
Methodological Rigor ◽  
Practical Recommendations ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

The domain of qualitative research is replete with templates, standard protocols for the analysis of qualitative data. The use of such templates has sometimes been considered as automatically enhancing the rigor of qualitative research. In this article, we challenge the view that in the context of qualitative research, rigor is tied into the application of established protocols. Instead, we argue that rigor emanates from the way in which researchers engage in a deliberate reasoning process of inferring theoretical claims from their data. Such reasoning exists outside of templates, although it may make use of templates. Framing rigor as an emergent quality of reasoning, we distill the main processes through which qualitative researchers derive inferences from data and provide criteria for reflecting on the rigor with which they do so. We then extend these criteria into a set of practical recommendations through the presentation of examples and the framing of questions to focus researchers’ thinking on the application of the criteria. In doing so, we aim to help qualitative researchers to conduct research that leads to rigorously derived theoretical insights without having to resort to templates to attempt to do so.

Aspects of the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen

Dialogue ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Hugo Meynell
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Special Quality ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Kai Nielsen is perhaps the most prolific of contemporary philosophers in Canada, as well as one of the most interesting. There are three salient aspects of his philosophy: his Marxism, his anti-foundationalism, and his particular brand of atheism. (The point of that last phrase will become clear in due course.) Among a large number of objections which I have to Nielsen's arguments and conclusions, one in particular stands out. I do not see how anti-fideism can consistently be combined with anti-foundationalism. The essence offideismis that one does not deem it necessary to rationally justify one's (typically religious) position, but one just “plumps for” it. But any justification of a (religious or other) position appears to involve appeal to foundations. Either the reasons in accordance with which a belief or set of beliefs is to be accepted can at least in principle be spelled out; or the belief or set of beliefs is arbitrary and unjustified. Nielsen needs to grasp the former horn of the dilemma to attack religious beliefs in the way he does; but to do so necessarily involves the foundationalism which he also attacks. A lot of the special quality of Nielsen, as a philosopher, comes out in the devices with which he covers over this intellectual crevasse.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KONTRASTIF KONSONAN BAHASA INDONESIA DAN BAHASA KEPULAUAN TUKANG BESI DIALEK KALEDUPA

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 594
Author(s):  
Ariani Ariani ◽  
La Ode Sidu ◽  
Sulfiah Sulfiah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Vocal Cords ◽  
Local Language ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
Community Data ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
The Way

Abstract : The purpose of this research is to describe the consonants of the languages of the Tukang Besi islands dialect Kaledupa and Indonesian language based on artculation areas,  describe the contrasts of the consonants language of the Tukang Besi island dialect Kaledupa and Indonesian language  dialect based on articulation, describing the contrast of the consonantsof  Tukang Besi islands dialectid Kaledupa and the Indonesian language based on the quality of of the dialectial Tukang Besi island language and the Indonesian language based on the way of articulatian, describing the contrast of the cosonants of the Tukang Besi islands of the iron bones of the Tukang Besi islands language  of the Kaledupa dialect and the Indonesian language based the quality sounds, describes of the consonants of the language Tukang Besi islands of the dialect Kaledupa based on consonant distribusion, and describe the consonants of the Tukang Besi language islands of the dialect Kaledupa and the Indonesian language based on vocal cords. The benefist expected in this study are (1) as source and information material for users of the Kaledupa dialect archipelago language, (2) as an input in affeorts to foster and develop language that continues to be developed ip to now specivically in the development of dialect Kaledupa islands, (3) as one of the references for further resereachers related to the resereach tittle. This resereach is a field resereach, because it involves the community as an informant or source of data in resereach. The data used in this study is oral data. The intended oral data is data derived from oral speech of the local language of the Tukang Besi islands dilect of the Kaledupa wich is used and expressed in daily conversation by the speaker community. Data collection techniques used in this study are the record technique, and note taking technique. Collected data were analyzed using contrastive descriptive methods. The results can be concluded that the consonant contrastive analysis in the language of the Tukang Besi islands dialect of Kaledupa and Indonesian namely, 16 consonants did not occur in contrast and 16 consonants that occurred in contrast. Keywords: contrastiv; consonant. 

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Lucy C. M. M. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Positive Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

There has been no focused study of the chorus in fourth-century drama. This may be, in part, explained by the difficult and diffuse evidence for its presence and activity. Two phenomena may also have discouraged scholars from attempting any such focused study: Aristotle’s castigation of later dramatic odes as embolima, and the replacement of choral odes in papyri with the mark χοροῦ‎, or χοροῦ μέλος‎—‘song of the chorus’. The notion that the chorus of drama in the fourth century was a pale shadow of its fifth-century self has flourished for well over a century. In order to do so, however, much positive evidence for the quantity and quality of the dramatic chorus has had to be explained away. An examination of the chorus itself, and the way contemporary thinkers used the idea of the chorus, will allow the re-writing of the history of Attic drama and its development.

Found

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally McKee
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The People ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

This chapter explains how the contradictory forces of invisibility and conspicuousness that worked incessantly upon dark-skinned black men and women living in societies dominated by European cultural values shaped Edmond Dede's interactions with the people he encountered. They defined people's expectations of him and provoked him to adopt strategies to evade those forces. He may not have prospered to the extent or in the way that he would have preferred to, but in the end the people who used him as an index of their hopes were right to do so. Conspicuousness was a permanent quality of his life in an overwhelmingly white society. Likewise, because his skin color consistently drew the attention of white, black, and mixed-race observers away from his work, the creative self would be always behind the mask.

Strategic threats to energy security as risks of quality of people's life

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 730-744
Author(s):  
V.I. Loktionov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Economic Well Being ◽  
The Way

Subject. The article reviews the way strategic threats to energy security influence the quality of people's life. Objectives. The study unfolds the theory of analyzing strategic threats to energy security by covering the matter of quality of people's life. Methods. To analyze the way strategic threats to energy security spread across cross-sectoral commodity and production chains and influences quality of people's living, I applied the factor analysis and general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. Results. I suggest interpreting strategic threats to energy security as risks of people's quality of life due to a reduction in the volume of energy supply. I identified mechanisms reflecting how the fuel and energy complex and its development influence the quality of people's life. The article sets out the method to assess such quality-of-life risks arising from strategic threats to energy security. Conclusions and Relevance. In the current geopolitical situation, strategic threats to energy security cause long-standing adverse consequences for the quality of people's life. If strategic threats to energy security are further construed as risk of quality of people's life, this will facilitate the preparation and performance of a more effective governmental policy on energy, which will subsequently raise the economic well-being of people.

The way to improve the quality of the application of lime fertilizers

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-91
Author(s):  
A.N. Sedashkin ◽  
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A.A. Kostrigin ◽  
E.A. Milyushina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
The Way
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