The purpose of the article is to explore the effects of Sichuan opera singing on music majors’vocal skills,focusing on three key aspects:pitch test,assessment of rhythmic perception,and emotional expression.Through a...The purpose of the article is to explore the effects of Sichuan opera singing on music majors’vocal skills,focusing on three key aspects:pitch test,assessment of rhythmic perception,and emotional expression.Through a quasi-experimental design,100 music majors were selected as research subjects and divided into an experimental group that received Sichuan opera singing instruction and a control group that received traditional vocal instruction.The results showed that compared with the control group,the experimental group receiving Sichuan opera singing teaching showed significant improvement in pitch mastery,rhythm perception,and emotional expression.展开更多
The Singing Sand Mountain and Crescent Spring Scenic Spot in Dunhuang,Northwest China is a world-renowned desert attraction that is also an integral component of the Dunhuang UNESCO Global Geopark.This scenic area und...The Singing Sand Mountain and Crescent Spring Scenic Spot in Dunhuang,Northwest China is a world-renowned desert attraction that is also an integral component of the Dunhuang UNESCO Global Geopark.This scenic area underwent a 30-year transformation,i.e.,from a severe sand risk with spring water threatened by sand burial due to dune deformation,to restoration of the original sand flow field and mitigation of the sand burial problem.The current paper summarizes the research on the intensive monitoring of the dynamic change of star dunes near the spring,observation of wind and sand flow movement,and then restoring the harmonic vibration of the sand particles(singing sand)that were previously silenced.The existing and prospective impacts of anthropogenic and natural forces on the deformation of the sand dunes are investigated by integrated methods,guiding the implementation of mitigating measures with significant ameliorative effects.Contrast to common sand control practices that aim to reduce wind speed and stop blown sands,our research highlights the importance of maintaining the natural wind flow field in stabilizing surrounding dunes.These mitigation measures consist of removing excessive vegetation and newly constructed buildings to recover the original wind flow field and sand transport activity.Such research and mitigation efforts ensure the scientific protection and restoration of the special desert landform,and contribute to the mutual enhancement of the conservation and exploitation of this desert scenic spot and similar sites.展开更多
The importance of diaspora identity has grown in recent years as the world becomes more interconnected and diaspora individuals are increasingly involved in matters among different ethnics.The Grass is Singing by Dori...The importance of diaspora identity has grown in recent years as the world becomes more interconnected and diaspora individuals are increasingly involved in matters among different ethnics.The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing is considered one of the most outstanding works of literature after World War II.Interest in ethnic identity has been heightened.The book is recognized as an introspective reflection of the spiritual crisis suffered by diaspora people and societal crises of the time.The thesis will examine the oppression imposed by dominant white group by exploring the transformation of diasporic white individuals’identity.展开更多
This paper proposes a technique for synthesizing a pixel-based photo-realistic talking face animation using two-step synthesis with HMMs and DNNs. We introduce facial expression parameters as an intermediate represent...This paper proposes a technique for synthesizing a pixel-based photo-realistic talking face animation using two-step synthesis with HMMs and DNNs. We introduce facial expression parameters as an intermediate representation that has a good correspondence with both of the input contexts and the output pixel data of face images. The sequences of the facial expression parameters are modeled using context-dependent HMMs with static and dynamic features. The mapping from the expression parameters to the target pixel images are trained using DNNs. We examine the required amount of the training data for HMMs and DNNs and compare the performance of the proposed technique with the conventional PCA-based technique through objective and subjective evaluation experiments.展开更多
在英语学习中,Free talk是说的能力,书面表达是写的能力,二者互相联系又相互促进,要有机融合,才能促进英语水平的有效提高。一、初中英语书面表达现状。在初中英语质量检测中,学生词汇贫乏、句型单一、结构松散、逻辑混乱的问题普遍存...在英语学习中,Free talk是说的能力,书面表达是写的能力,二者互相联系又相互促进,要有机融合,才能促进英语水平的有效提高。一、初中英语书面表达现状。在初中英语质量检测中,学生词汇贫乏、句型单一、结构松散、逻辑混乱的问题普遍存在。第一,受母语的影响导致汉语式英语,类似“I by bike to school every day”的表达司空见惯。展开更多
The new millennium has witnessed the stunning growth of Chinese textile industry, China has become the largest textile producer and textile exporter in the world. With exports of Chinese textile products outnumbered t...The new millennium has witnessed the stunning growth of Chinese textile industry, China has become the largest textile producer and textile exporter in the world. With exports of Chinese textile products outnumbered those of all the other nations, various forms of trade frictions against Chinese textile products have arisen.展开更多
The article intends to interpret The Grass Is Singing from the perspective of ecofeminism and analyze the unequal relationships between man and nature,man and woman,the white race and the black race.
Through the introduction of the American poem "I Hear America Singing" and its writer Walt Whitman, the Chinese poem " 春望 "and its writer:杜甫, and the comparison of these two poems in prosody, l...Through the introduction of the American poem "I Hear America Singing" and its writer Walt Whitman, the Chinese poem " 春望 "and its writer:杜甫, and the comparison of these two poems in prosody, language, contents and emotion, writing techniques, political views field, etc, this essay analyses further some poetic phenomenon, and also draws a vivid picture of America in 19 century and China in 8 century.展开更多
The term "Other" is a key concept in the framework of postcolonialism.This paper attempts to analyze the native black people's role-"the Other" in the process of colonization.The British writer...The term "Other" is a key concept in the framework of postcolonialism.This paper attempts to analyze the native black people's role-"the Other" in the process of colonization.The British writer Doris Lessing finds the unltimate expression in her first novel The Grass Is Singing.With the settlement of the colonizers,the South Africa has been rendered by the white colonizers as "the Other World" and the native people are regarded as "the Other" who are degraded into unspeakable animals by white people.展开更多
A ——Why do you sing in the bathtub(浴缸)? ——The door won't lock, so I have to. B ——I've been singing ever since I was two years old. ——No wonder you're hoarse(嘶哑的). C ——Why do you always stand...A ——Why do you sing in the bathtub(浴缸)? ——The door won't lock, so I have to. B ——I've been singing ever since I was two years old. ——No wonder you're hoarse(嘶哑的). C ——Why do you always stand outside on the porch when your wife sings? ——Because I don't want the neighbors to think I'm beating her.展开更多
We propose a mandarin Chinese singing voice synthesis system, in which hidden Markov model(HMM)-based speech synthesis technique is used. A mandarin Chinese singing voice corpus is recorded and musical contextual feat...We propose a mandarin Chinese singing voice synthesis system, in which hidden Markov model(HMM)-based speech synthesis technique is used. A mandarin Chinese singing voice corpus is recorded and musical contextual features are well designed for training. F0 and spectrum of singing voice are simultaneously modeled with context-dependent HMMs. There is a new problem, F0 of singing voice is always sparse because of large amount of context, i.e., tempo and pitch of note, key, time signature and etc. So the features hardly ever appeared in the training data cannot be well obtained. To address this problem,difference between F0 of singing voice and that of musical score(DF0) is modeled by a single Viterbi training. To overcome the over-smoothing of the generated F0 contour, syllable level F0 model based on discrete cosine transforms(DCT) is applied, F0 contour is generated by integrating two-level statistical models.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system outperforms the baseline system in both objective and subjective evaluations. The proposed system can generate a more natural F0 contour. Furthermore, the syllable level F0 model can make singing voice more expressive.展开更多
文摘The purpose of the article is to explore the effects of Sichuan opera singing on music majors’vocal skills,focusing on three key aspects:pitch test,assessment of rhythmic perception,and emotional expression.Through a quasi-experimental design,100 music majors were selected as research subjects and divided into an experimental group that received Sichuan opera singing instruction and a control group that received traditional vocal instruction.The results showed that compared with the control group,the experimental group receiving Sichuan opera singing teaching showed significant improvement in pitch mastery,rhythm perception,and emotional expression.
基金the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFD1100104)the National Science Foundation of China(42071014)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y202085).
文摘The Singing Sand Mountain and Crescent Spring Scenic Spot in Dunhuang,Northwest China is a world-renowned desert attraction that is also an integral component of the Dunhuang UNESCO Global Geopark.This scenic area underwent a 30-year transformation,i.e.,from a severe sand risk with spring water threatened by sand burial due to dune deformation,to restoration of the original sand flow field and mitigation of the sand burial problem.The current paper summarizes the research on the intensive monitoring of the dynamic change of star dunes near the spring,observation of wind and sand flow movement,and then restoring the harmonic vibration of the sand particles(singing sand)that were previously silenced.The existing and prospective impacts of anthropogenic and natural forces on the deformation of the sand dunes are investigated by integrated methods,guiding the implementation of mitigating measures with significant ameliorative effects.Contrast to common sand control practices that aim to reduce wind speed and stop blown sands,our research highlights the importance of maintaining the natural wind flow field in stabilizing surrounding dunes.These mitigation measures consist of removing excessive vegetation and newly constructed buildings to recover the original wind flow field and sand transport activity.Such research and mitigation efforts ensure the scientific protection and restoration of the special desert landform,and contribute to the mutual enhancement of the conservation and exploitation of this desert scenic spot and similar sites.
文摘The importance of diaspora identity has grown in recent years as the world becomes more interconnected and diaspora individuals are increasingly involved in matters among different ethnics.The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing is considered one of the most outstanding works of literature after World War II.Interest in ethnic identity has been heightened.The book is recognized as an introspective reflection of the spiritual crisis suffered by diaspora people and societal crises of the time.The thesis will examine the oppression imposed by dominant white group by exploring the transformation of diasporic white individuals’identity.
文摘This paper proposes a technique for synthesizing a pixel-based photo-realistic talking face animation using two-step synthesis with HMMs and DNNs. We introduce facial expression parameters as an intermediate representation that has a good correspondence with both of the input contexts and the output pixel data of face images. The sequences of the facial expression parameters are modeled using context-dependent HMMs with static and dynamic features. The mapping from the expression parameters to the target pixel images are trained using DNNs. We examine the required amount of the training data for HMMs and DNNs and compare the performance of the proposed technique with the conventional PCA-based technique through objective and subjective evaluation experiments.
文摘在英语学习中,Free talk是说的能力,书面表达是写的能力,二者互相联系又相互促进,要有机融合,才能促进英语水平的有效提高。一、初中英语书面表达现状。在初中英语质量检测中,学生词汇贫乏、句型单一、结构松散、逻辑混乱的问题普遍存在。第一,受母语的影响导致汉语式英语,类似“I by bike to school every day”的表达司空见惯。
文摘The new millennium has witnessed the stunning growth of Chinese textile industry, China has become the largest textile producer and textile exporter in the world. With exports of Chinese textile products outnumbered those of all the other nations, various forms of trade frictions against Chinese textile products have arisen.
文摘The article intends to interpret The Grass Is Singing from the perspective of ecofeminism and analyze the unequal relationships between man and nature,man and woman,the white race and the black race.
文摘Through the introduction of the American poem "I Hear America Singing" and its writer Walt Whitman, the Chinese poem " 春望 "and its writer:杜甫, and the comparison of these two poems in prosody, language, contents and emotion, writing techniques, political views field, etc, this essay analyses further some poetic phenomenon, and also draws a vivid picture of America in 19 century and China in 8 century.
文摘The term "Other" is a key concept in the framework of postcolonialism.This paper attempts to analyze the native black people's role-"the Other" in the process of colonization.The British writer Doris Lessing finds the unltimate expression in her first novel The Grass Is Singing.With the settlement of the colonizers,the South Africa has been rendered by the white colonizers as "the Other World" and the native people are regarded as "the Other" who are degraded into unspeakable animals by white people.
文摘A ——Why do you sing in the bathtub(浴缸)? ——The door won't lock, so I have to. B ——I've been singing ever since I was two years old. ——No wonder you're hoarse(嘶哑的). C ——Why do you always stand outside on the porch when your wife sings? ——Because I don't want the neighbors to think I'm beating her.
文摘We propose a mandarin Chinese singing voice synthesis system, in which hidden Markov model(HMM)-based speech synthesis technique is used. A mandarin Chinese singing voice corpus is recorded and musical contextual features are well designed for training. F0 and spectrum of singing voice are simultaneously modeled with context-dependent HMMs. There is a new problem, F0 of singing voice is always sparse because of large amount of context, i.e., tempo and pitch of note, key, time signature and etc. So the features hardly ever appeared in the training data cannot be well obtained. To address this problem,difference between F0 of singing voice and that of musical score(DF0) is modeled by a single Viterbi training. To overcome the over-smoothing of the generated F0 contour, syllable level F0 model based on discrete cosine transforms(DCT) is applied, F0 contour is generated by integrating two-level statistical models.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system outperforms the baseline system in both objective and subjective evaluations. The proposed system can generate a more natural F0 contour. Furthermore, the syllable level F0 model can make singing voice more expressive.