Station Names Research Articles

Some Comments On Alternate Naming Systems

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An isolated spoken word database using CD‐ROMs

A database of isolated spoken words has a 212‐word vocabulary uttered by 40 male and 30 female speakers and further a 3000‐word vocabulary uttered by 10 male and 20 female speakers. The 212‐word vocabulary was selected to contain most of the Japanese phoneme contexts. The 3000‐word vocabulary is a set of Japanese railroad station names. The speech data were sampled at 24 kHz and digitized to 12 bits. About 1000 magnetic tapes were used for the recording of the speech data. However, because of the huge number of the magnetic tapes, it is very difficult to deliver these tapes to speech researchers, and there are many problems in maintenance. For building up a database, the CD‐ROM has many merits such as compactness and price. Furthermore, the so‐called High Sierra Format was published last year and most computers can access CD‐ROMs. The magnetic tapes are being converted to CD‐ROMs in that format. By April 1989, two CD‐ROMs will be available that will contain the 212‐word vocabulary uttered by 50 speakers.

James Graves and the Valentia telegraph station

To many people today Valentia is little more than the name of a weather station quoted in shipping forecasts. Here, the writings of James Graves, Valentia's first superintendent, are used to give some insight into life at the cable station in its early years and also to assess its importance in the development of transatlantic communication

A real-time recognition system for spoken words

A method is presented for reducing the memory capacity and the amount of computation necessary in automatic recognition of spoken words based on the registration of word templates by individual speakers. The reduction is achieved by representing the spectral information of speech in terms of a small number of feature parameters and by sampling them at a variable rate determined by their rate of variation. A special-purpose hardware unit was designed and constructed for the extraction of the speech parameters, using microprocessors and microprogramming techniques for high-speed processing. On the other hand, a general-purpose minicomputer was utilized for word registration and recognition in order to determine detailed specifications for microprocessor implementation. The performance of the total system for real-time word recognition was tested by using three kinds of vacabulary items, including digits, arithmetic symbols, and railway station names, giving an average rate of correct recognition of 98.1%. [Work supported by Ministry of Education Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 285070.]

A guide to current published meteorological data for northern lands. Part 1

A great amount of meteorological data, in both numerical and map form, is available to the researcher interested in the poleward portions of the Northern Hemisphere. Unfortunately, few libraries maintain a current collection of meteorological data journals of foreign areas, although several journals published in the United States include surface and upper level charts for the Northern Hemisphere, and station data on a world-wide basis. In order to provide assistance in determining the availability of point and spatial meteorological data, I have compiled a bibliography of current serial publications which contains Information on the specific meteorological parameters to be found within the latest issue of the journal that I was able to examine. Following the annotated bibliography there is a listing of all weather, climatological and precipitation stations that have data within the most recently published journals. Each list gives the station name, location, height and journals in which its data are published. Omitted from this Guide are stations with less than one year of record, summer-only stations and those not included in the most recent issue of any journal (1972 to 1975) because they have started observations too recently or have ceased operation. All stations are also located on maps.

The Development Of A Cost-effective AutomaticTrain Protection System For Safety Operation OnSuburban Lines In The Tokyo Metropolitan Area

In East Japan Railway Company(JR East), the ATP system based on the transponder technology is applied to upgrade the safety on commuter lines in the Tokyo metropolitan area since 1989. This ATP system was named ATS-P(the Automatic Train Stop with on-board Pattern) in Japanese National Railway. This ATS-P performs the wayside-to-train communication by the transponder technology. The coded message transmitted from a ground coil enables the on-board devices to perform a continuous supervision of the train speed. The lines equipped with the ATS-P system accounted for 706 kilometers as of December 31,1995. Applying the ATS-P to moderate traffic lines, it would be necessary to develop a cost-effective on-board equipment and wayside equipment. In February, 1994 authors decided to develop the wayside equipment of such a system at first and named the developed unit the ATS-P(N> in October, 1995. ATS-P(N) also uses the transponder technology and especially makes full use of the ground coils without power supply cable. The ATS-P(N> system is constructed of several ground coils and relay-modules to change the train control telegrams according to signal indications. It's really significant that the ATS-P(N) system is simpler than the ATS-P ground system. So, the total cost of ATS-P(N)is less than 50% of the ATS-P ground system. The ATS-P(N> will be applied on two conventional lines in 1997. 1 ATS-P system Transponders are generally used as repeating devices in communication satellites and for identifying an aircraft. But as shown in Fig.l, it serves as a digital communication device for sending and receiving information between ground coils and on-board coils. Some transmission specifications for the transponder are illustrated in Table 1. The fixed information such as a station name, etc., can be transmitted using Transactions on the Built Environment vol 18, © 1996 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISSN 1743-3509

Names, names, names

Before I learned about the places where high-energy physics is done, I was under the impression that Frascati came in bottles. But the world's physicists have taken all the old familiar names and given them strange new meanings. To the average boy Copenhagen means beautiful blond girls, but ask a physicist. Orsay used to be the name of a suburban train station in Paris (in the present political climate it will hardly do to mention the French foreign ministry), and Fontenay-aux-Roses should belong to the troubadours. But what has happened to it?

Railway Lighting

The paper opens with a discussion of the general requirements of railway lighting installations, and attention is drawn to the special importance for railway purposes of reliability, robust construction to withstand adverse conditions, “and good design to secure absence of glare. Special problems are referred to in some detail, and a description is given of special devices, such as under-pit fluorescent lighting for the inspection of locomotives, methods of illuminating the interiors of box wagons in goods sheds, and a suggested method for affording background illumination in shunting yards. Reference is made to the need for low illumination in signal boxes so as to ensure reasonable” dark adaptation “for the eyes of signalmen when observing train movements through the windows, and a section deals with some of the features which may make for greater safety of stairways.The later part of the paper covers some possible future developments in the use of fluorescent tube lighting, and in the illumination of direction signs and clocks, station name signs, both large and small, and of various train indicator devices and timetable boards. Finally, some reference is made to the effect of better lighting on the welfare and safety of the staff and the travelling public.

Henry A. Crabb: A Tragedy of the Sonora Frontier

Research Article| June 01 1940 Henry A. Crabb: A Tragedy of the Sonora Frontier Rufus Kay Wyllys Rufus Kay Wyllys Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1940) 9 (2): 183–194. https://doi.org/10.2307/3633084 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rufus Kay Wyllys; Henry A. Crabb: A Tragedy of the Sonora Frontier. Pacific Historical Review 1 June 1940; 9 (2): 183–194. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3633084 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1940 The Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.