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PSOLA (Pitch Synchronous Overlap and Add) is a digital signal processing technique used for speech processing and more specifically speech synthesis. In this paper we are exploiting the feature of Pitch Synchronous Overlap and Add to change voice properties. Here, we are taking three properties, namely vocal tract, pitch and time. On changing these properties original voice is changed. In PSOLA, we divide the speech waveform in small overlapping segments. Now, if we want to increase the pitch, we need to move speech segments apart otherwise we need to bring the segments together to decrease the pitch.
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Increasing population density in Delhi, urban agglomeration and haphazard development in the NCR region necessitate the need toward development of systematic and planned urban areas for residential, commercial as well as industrial purposes. Government of Haryana has planned for development of a new urban complex adjacent to Gurugram in the National Capital Region for sustainable urban development. This new city will be developed in a public-private partnership (PPP) model, with proposed expansion spread across 50,000 hectares. The city will be located south of Delhi and will share boundaries with the Gurgaon-Manesar urban area to the North and the Aravalli hills to the North-East. It will be connected to the neighbouring urban centres through national and state highways, the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway and another major districts road -Network.
Today, Manesar is facing the problem of unequal distribution of Land use and the situation has worsened exponentially in the recent past. This paper will analyse the increasing population, rapid urbanisation in the Manesar vicinity and change in land use pattern of the proposed urban complex from year 1987 till Date.
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The relationship between financial system and economic growth remains controversial among economist and policy makers. Bagehot (1873) and Hicks (1969) argues that Financial market was responsible for igniting the industrialization in the Great Britain through capital mobilization, while Schumpeter (1912) highlighted that a well performing bank provides an avenue for technological progress by providing entrepreneurs with the prerequisite for innovative production process. The paper focus on examining the relationship between financial market development and economic growth in Nigeria. The study uses a financial depth index that encompasses the domestic credit to the private sector as a share of GDP, the stock market capitalization as a share of GDP, while the private and public bond market capitalization as a share of GDP is not available in Nigerian case, as such is ignored. A Markov switching regression model with two regimes based on Hamilton specification is used in analyzing the variables. The macroeconomic variables that include FDI, Inflation and Openness to trade do not perform base on mainstream literature. The low performance of FDI is associated with lack of infrastructure, corruption, low level of ease of doing business, government bureaucracy, absence of enabling environment, and inadequate educated workforce that allows to exploit FDI spill-overs, while inflation can best be modelled using a nonlinear approach. Moreover, the country’s openness to trade are positively related with growth rate in all regimes, which signifies country’s readiness for trade with regards to import and export. The financial system development variables are significant in explaining the finance – growth nexus but the magnitudes are less, which shows a very limited level of providing liquidity in the equity markets in Nigeria. Some of the recommendations include proper diversification of the economy to reduce the heavy dependence on oil, massive investment in infrastructure and device way to tackle corruption; this will help the proper functioning of the macroeconomic variables. While the financial system needs to be standardized in terms of liquidity, and regulation.
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This study aims to investigate the effects of using Collaborative learning to enhance the English reading comprehension by comparing the Collaborative learning instruction and traditional lecture instruction on ninth-grade students from a secondary school of Anand district. The students were divided into two groups: experimental group (36 students selected randomly) and control group (36 students selected randomly).The students in experimental group received the collaborative learning treatment, while students in control group received no treatment, but worked in a traditional classroom environment. Each student spent approximately two weeks in either a class using collaborative learning strategies or one that did not. Collaborative learning activities were incorporated ten to twelve class periods per week. Both groups were administered English-reading achievement tests. The data were analyzed by means, standard deviations and t tests. The findings indicate statistically significant differences in favor of Collaborative learning instruction on English reading comprehension, particularly among students attending tuition class and not attending tuition class for English and students whose parents are engaged in agriculture and whose parents are engaged in services. Collaborative learning instruction also created a significantly positive effect on student motivation toward learning English reading. In conclusion, we strongly suggest teachers use Collaborative learning instruction in English subject at secondary school level.
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साहित्य शब्द प्रायः इतने व्यापक और भिन्न.भिन्न अर्थ में प्रयुक्त होता है कि इसका एक निश्चित स्वरूप निर्धारण भारतीय ही नहीं बल्कि पश्चिमी विद्वानों के लिए भी एक चुनौती की तरह रहा है। साहित्य का अंग्रेज़़ी समानार्थी शब्द लिटरेचर लेटर या अक्षर से संबंधित हैय और इसी कारण वहाँ अक्षरों में लिखी प्रत्येक वस्तु लिटरेचर कहलाने लगीय चाहे वह बृहद पुस्तक हो या किसी डॉक्टर द्वारा लिखा गया प्रिस्क्रिप्शन। हमारे यहाँ कविताए कहानीए उपन्यास आदि को तो साहित्य कहा ही जाता हैए दर्शनए गणितए विज्ञान आदि की पुस्तकों को भी व्यापक अर्थ में साहित्य की संज्ञा दी जाती है। भामह ने इस ष्साहित्यष् को काव्य के अर्थ में सीमित कर दिया था.सहितस्य भाव साहित्यम् । इस सहितस्य एकीकरण एवं मिलन को स्पष्ट करते हुए भामह ने कहा कि शब्द और अर्थ का सहभाव या सहितत्त्व होता है.शब्दार्थो सहितौ काव्यय और इसी सहितत्त्व का पर्याय है.काव्य। तात्कालिक समय में इस तरह ष्साहित्यष् और ष्काव्यष् समानार्थी व पर्यायवाची रूप में प्रयुक्त हुए। सातवीं शताब्दी में भर्तृहरि के प्रसिद्ध श्लोक में भी साहित्य काव्य के पर्याय के रूप में ही है
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The development in the field of computer and utility oriented innovations based on internet has changed the means and methods of communication and transactions. This paper is an attempt to examine the determinants of digital wallet adoption by using the details of technology acceptance model. Descriptive and multivariate statistical methods have been used for the analysis of data collected from a sample of 410 people by using structured close ended questionnaire. This study covered only six locations including Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, Gurugram and Faridabad hence this limit the capacity of this research to make any strong generalization of the findings however this study offers important insights about the factors that are important for adoption of digital wallet. The analysis resulted into the extraction of factors that provide practical reasoning about what is important for the adoption of digital wallet. This paper also attempt to construct helpful and important insights on the basis of literature review and statistical calculations.
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The status of women in India has been subjected to many great changes over the past few decades.Women have been progressed,educated and employed by reforms and upliftment which brought a radical change in the society but without touching the roots of the problems that women have been fighting with. Women's rights under the constitution mainly include equality, dignity, and freedom from discrimination; additionally, India has various statutes governing the rights of women. However, women in India continue to face numerous problems such as sexual assault, gender inequality and dowry.The status of women in India is like the eco system of the earth, losing its actual shape and qualities and taking a new change imbalanced and unwanted leading to a smaller problem to a bigger one.
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The employment of celebrities in advertising began in the 1980s in India and today they have become an essential pillar of advertising and the world of advertising, whether it is a movie star, an athlete or any other popular personality. Nowadays, one can find the presence of celebrities in almost all types of advertising, from bicycle advertising to Mercedes Benz advertising. This has become the domain of celebrities in the advertising market today. In India, in particular, it is not difficult to find reasons why companies increasingly use celebrities, The Indians still love their heroes and their heroines.
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This project work entitled “A STUDY ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF FAURECIA EMISSIONS AND CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES” aims to understand the financial position and to find whether its operational efficiency is satisfactory or not. The main objective of the study is to assess the liquidity position of the business and to know about the profitability of the company. The research study is analytical in nature. The data used for this study are secondary data. In this project, the financial analytical tools like ratio analysis, trend analysis, comparative statement analysis and common size balance sheet analysis are used to analyses the financial performance of the company. On the overview, the financial performance of the organization is found to be satisfactory as sales and profit shows an increasing trend. The inference are made out of these analyses and based on these findings, suggestions are made.
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Educational needs a greater focus on accessibility, equity and quality. Over the years, remarkable progress is noticed in respect of female participation up to the secondary level and gross enrolment rate for girls has exceeded that of boys. Such progress in girls participation in elementary and secondary education is mainly attributed to government programme like setting up of residential schools where female literacy rates are low, providing physical and financial incentives to the girls. But girl’s enrolment is lower than that of boys at the higher levels of education. Girl’s enrolment rate stood only 23.5% against 25.4% for boys in higher education during the year 2015-16. At this level, the gap is visible across the social categories too. This paper emphasis on female education as compared to male education because it enables them to responds to the challenges, to confront their traditional role and change their life. So that we can’t neglect the importance of education in reference to women empowerment.
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