Presentation Planning and Media Relations for the Pharmaceutical Industry by Lidstone, John

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Developmental Phonological Disorders : Foundations of Clinical Practice. by Rvachew, Susan

Table of Contents: “…3.1.1.3 Development of Mandibular Control During Babbling3.1.1.4 Organization of Supralaryngeal Articulatory Gestures in Meaningful Speech; 3.1.1.5 Gestural Goals in Connected Speech; 3.1.2 Vowels; 3.1.2.1 Development of the Vowel Space in Infancy; 3.1.2.2 Vowel Production in Childhood; 3.1.3 Voice-Onset Time; 3.1.4 Fundamental Frequency Contours; 3.1.5 Summary of Studies of Speech Development; 3.2 Theories of Speech Motor Control; 3.2.1 Psycholinguistic Models of Speech Production; 3.2.2 Motor Schema Theory; 3.2.3 Auditory Feedback Based Models of Speech Motor Control; 3.2.3.1 DIVA Model.…”
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War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor : the Canard Enchan and World War I. by Douglas, Allen

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Direct speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca : narrative and rhetorical functions of the characters' "varied" and "many-faceted" words by Verhelst, Berenice, 1987-

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Breaking Banks : the Innovators, Rogues, and Strategists Rebooting Banking by King, Brett

Table of Contents: “…Breaking Banks: The Innovators, Rogues, and Strategists Rebooting Banking; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction: An Industry Being Reborn and Reinvented; Chapter 1:A New Take on Credit and Lending; When Your Credit Score Becomes More Important than Actual Risk; Taking a Fresh Look at Lending; A Different Type of Credit Assessment Based on Community; Through the Looking Glass: Lending 3.0?…”
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CCSP Complete Study Guide : Exams 642-501, 642-511, 642-521, 642-531, 642-541. by Lammle, Todd

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Scholastic Journalism by Tate, C. Dow

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Caesar in Gaul and Rome : war in words by Riggsby, Andrew M.

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War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor : the Canard Enchan and World War I. by Douglas, Allen

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Evaluation in Translation : Critical points of translator decision-making. by Munday, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…2.3.1 Translation of pronouns2.3.2 Spatio-temporal deixis and identity; 2.3.3 Reading position and voice of the interpreter; 2.4 Conclusion; Appendix 2.1 Transcript of Obama inaugural speech, 20 January 2009; 3 THE VIEW FROM THE TECHNICAL TRANSLATORS; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 The perception of the professionals; 3.1.1 Text-type and explicitation; 3.1.2 The Chinese context; 3.2 KudoZ 3.3 SENSE; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 THE LITERARY TRANSLATOR AND REVISER; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 Revisions of a classical text -- Agricola and Germania; 4.1.1 The manuscript revised.…”
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Mission-critical network planning by Liotine, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…; 1.2 Purpose of the book; 1.3 Network Continuity Versus Disaster Recovery; 1.4 The Case for Mission-Critical Planning; 1.5 Trends Affecting Continuity Planning; 1.6 Mission Goals and Objectives; 1.7 Originization of the Book; 2. …”
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Syntactic analysis and description : a constructional approach by Lockwood, David G.

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Video Conferencing over IP : Configure, Secure, and Troubleshoot.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Foreword; Part I: Getting Started with Video Calls; Chapter 1: Introduction to Video Calls; Types of Videoconferencing; What Is a Video Call?…”
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Political power and corporate control : the new global politics of corporate governance by Gourevitch, Peter Alexis, Shinn, James

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News Discourse by Bednarek, Monika, author

Table of Contents: “…; Directions for further reading; Notes; 9 Killing Osama: a case study of online news; 1 Introduction; 2 Introducing the data; 3 Reflecting established news practices; 4 'Wherever you are, you're with the BBC': voice and authority in the two stories; 5 Covering 'special' news events; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Appendix 1 Tables; Appendix 2 Evaluation in the news -- a model student assignment; References; Index.…”
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Mothers, babies, and their body language by Sansone, Antonella

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Argument selectors : a new perspective on grammatical relations

Table of Contents: “…Argument selectors in Mon; 3.1 Word order; 3.2 Case marking; 3.3 Voice; 3.3.1 Passive; 3.3.2 Causative; 3.4 Secondary verbs; 3.5 Control; 3.6 Reflexives; 3.7 Purposive clauses…”
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Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition. by Virtanen, Tuomas

Table of Contents: “…-- List of Contributors xv -- Acknowledgments xvii -- 1 Introduction 1 / Tuomas Virtanen, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj -- 1.1 Scope of the Book 1 -- 1.2 Outline 2 -- 1.3 Notation 4 -- Part One FOUNDATIONS -- 2 The Basics of Automatic Speech Recognition 9 / Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj, Tuomas Virtanen -- 2.1 Introduction 9 -- 2.2 Speech Recognition Viewed as Bayes Classification 10 -- 2.3 Hidden Markov Models 11 -- 2.3.1 Computing Probabilities with HMMs 12 -- 2.3.2 Determining the State Sequence 17 -- 2.3.3 Learning HMM Parameters 19 -- 2.3.4 Additional Issues Relating to Speech Recognition Systems 20 -- 2.4 HMM-Based Speech Recognition 24 -- 2.4.1 Representing the Signal 24 -- 2.4.2 The HMM for a Word Sequence 25 -- 2.4.3 Searching through all Word Sequences 26 -- References 29 -- 3 The Problem of Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition 31 / Bhiksha Raj, Tuomas Virtanen, Rita Singh -- 3.1 Errors in Bayes Classification 31 -- 3.1.1 Type 1 Condition: Mismatch Error 33 -- 3.1.2 Type 2 Condition: Increased Bayes Error 34 -- 3.2 Bayes Classification and ASR 35 -- 3.2.1 All We Have is a Model: A Type 1 Condition 35 -- 3.2.2 Intrinsic Interferences -- Signal Components that are Unrelated to the Message: A Type 2 Condition 36 -- 3.2.3 External Interferences -- The Data are Noisy: Type 1 and Type 2 Conditions 36 -- 3.3 External Influences on Speech Recordings 36 -- 3.3.1 Signal Capture 37 -- 3.3.2 Additive Corruptions 41 -- 3.3.3 Reverberation 42 -- 3.3.4 A Simplified Model of Signal Capture 43 -- 3.4 The Effect of External Influences on Recognition 44 -- 3.5 Improving Recognition under Adverse Conditions 46 -- 3.5.1 Handling the Model Mismatch Error 46 -- 3.5.2 Dealing with Intrinsic Variations in the Data 47 -- 3.5.3 Dealing with Extrinsic Variations 47 -- References 50 -- Part Two SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT -- 4 Voice Activity Detection, Noise Estimation, and Adaptive Filters for Acoustic Signal Enhancement 53 / Rainer Martin, Dorothea Kolossa -- 4.1 Introduction 53 -- 4.2 Signal Analysis and Synthesis 55.…”
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Getting the buggers to turn up by McCormack, Ian

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A linguistic handbook of French for translators and language students by Boucher, Paul

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Training Research Consultants Training Research Consultants. by Torreano, Jennifer

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The Routledge Introduction to Qur'anic Arabic. by Younes, Munther Abdullatif, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Grammar: The pronunciation of the object/possessive pronounsGrammar: The passive voice; Grammar: More on subject markers on the perfect verb; Exercise: Word analysis; Lesson Five; Grammar: More on subject markers; Grammar: Passive voice; Grammar: Negation; Grammar: Number; Grammar: Cases; Grammar: Moods; Grammar: Verb-subject disagreement; Exercise: Stems and affixes; Exercise: Word analysis; Lesson Six; Grammar: The imperative; Exercise: Word analysis; Lesson Seven; Exercise 1: Word analysis; Exercise 2: Opposites; Grammar: Subject markers revisited; Grammar: Possessive/object pronouns…”
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Presenting on TV and Radio: An insider's guide. by Trewin, Janet

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Civil society, democratization and the search for human security : the politics of the environment, gender, and identity in northeast India by McDuie-Ra, Duncan

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William Sloane Coffin, Jr. : a holy impatience by Goldstein, Warren

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William Sloane Coffin, Jr. : a holy impatience by Goldstein, Warren

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Teaching and Learning Languages : a practical guide to learning by doing. by Buck, Jemma

Table of Contents: “…Use of the target language by students; Types of classroom language; Collecting and learning classroom language; Core language.…”
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Recent developments in historical phonology

Table of Contents: “…-- The distribution of short and long vowels in stems of the type Lith. Ã"sti: vÃ?sti: mÃ?sti and OCS fasti: vesti: mesti in Baltic and Slavic languages -- Comment on W. …”
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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010 : Selected Papers from 'going Romance' Leiden. by Franco, Irene

Table of Contents: “…The person case constraint; 2.1 A Case-based account; 2.2 A grammar without repairs; References; Contextual conditions on stem alternations; 1. …”
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Experiential Verbs in Homeric Greek A Constructional Approach. by Luraghi, Silvia

Table of Contents: “…Experiential Situation Types -- 2.1.1. Bodily Sensations -- 2.1.2. Perception -- 2.1.3. …”
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Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder : a Student Textbook by Wilson, David, Yardley, Elizabeth, Lynes, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Public and Personal Service -- Driving and Transitory Dependent Work -- Key Term -- Linkage Blindness -- Revision -- Case Study: Peter Sutcliffe -- Key Term -- Case Study -- Case Overview -- Occupational History -- Offending History -- Peter Sutcliffe -- A Case Study of Serial Murder -- Key Term -- Crime Template -- Key Terms -- Awareness and Activity Space -- Key Term -- Rational Choice Theory -- Revision -- The Female Serial Killer -- Introduction -- Crime, Violence, Sex and Gender -- Box 1: British Female Serial Killers in the 20th-century -- Box 2: Feminine and Masculine Traits and Characteristics -- Key Term -- Gendered -- To Kill ... -- Key Term -- Social Divisions -- ... and Kill Again -- Progressing the Study of Female Serial Killers -- The 'Institutional' Approach -- Revision -- Mary Ann Cotton -- Introduction -- The Life and Crimes of Mary Ann -- What 'Type' of Serial Killer was Mary Ann? …”
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Digital Technologies and African Societies Challenges and Opportunities. by Atchoua, Julien

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Cognitive processing in second language acquisition : inside the learner's mind

Table of Contents: “…Quality and type of corrective feedback, noticing, and learner uptake in synchronous computer-mediated text-based and voice chats / Susana Sotillo -- Index.…”
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Atypical predicate-argument relations

Table of Contents: “…Norms discovered via the corpus-based study and observations of language use -- 5. …”
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Righteous indignation : religion and the populist revolution by Creech, Joe, 1964-

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Writing and publishing a scientific research paper

Table of Contents: “…1.3 Moral Responsibility of the ResearcherReferences; 2: Components and Structure of a Manuscript; 2.1 Background; 2.2 Introduction; 2.3 Methodology; 2.4 Results; 2.5 Discussion; 2.6 Acknowledgment; 2.7 References; Case Scenario; References; 3: Title; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Title; 3.3 Importance of Writing a Relevant Title; 3.4 There Are Three Basic Rules to Be Followed While Writing a Title; 3.5 Types of Titles; 3.6 Running Title; 3.7 Title Page; 3.8 Covering Letter; 3.9 Attributes of a Good Title, Running Title, and Covering Letter; 3.10 Conclusions; Case Scenario.…”
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Learning with Online and Mobile Technologies : a Student Survival Guide. by MacDonald, Janet, 1950-

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Playing with Purpose : Adventures in Performative Social Science. by Gergen, Mary M.

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The Tangam language : grammar, lexicon and texts by Post, Mark W., Lipir, Dugbang, Modi, Yankee

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Create to Learn Introduction to Digital Literacy. by Hobbs, Renee

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