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As well as conveying a message in words and sounds, the speech signal carries information about the speaker's own anatomy, physiology, linguistic experience and mental state. These speaker characteristics are found in speech at all levels of description: from the spectral information in the sounds to the choice of words and utterances themselves. This volume and its companion volume, LNAI 4441, constitute a state-of-the-art survey for the field of speaker classification. They approach the following questions: What characteristics of the speaker become manifest in his or her voice and speaking behavior? Which of them can be inferred from analyzing the acoustic realizations? What can this information be used for? Which methods are the most suitable for diversified problems in this area of research? How should the quality of the results be evaluated? The 19 contributions to this volume comprise general and overview-like articles that are organized in topical sections on fundamentals, characteristics, applications, methods and features, as well as evaluation.

Speech processing systems. --- Speech perception. --- Voice --- Sociolinguistics. --- Traitement automatique de la parole --- Perception de la parole --- Voix --- Sociolinguistique --- Identification. --- Identification --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Speech processing systems --- Speech perception --- Sociolinguistics --- Electrical Engineering --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Information Technology --- Artificial Intelligence --- Speech recognition --- Engineering. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computational linguistics. --- Pattern recognition. --- Application software. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Computer Applications. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Language Translation and Linguistics. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Computer science. --- Computer hardware. --- Image processing. --- Computer Science. --- Computer Hardware. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Automatic language processing --- Language and languages --- Language data processing --- Linguistics --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Mathematical linguistics --- Multilingual computing --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Data processing --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Informatics --- Science --- Auditory perception --- Psycholinguistics --- Speech --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Information theory --- Modulation theory --- Oral communication --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Natural language processing (Computer science). --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Computer vision. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Natural Language Processing (NLP). --- NLP (Computer science) --- Artificial intelligence --- Semantic computing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Image processing --- Pattern recognition systems --- Signal processing. --- Optical data processing. --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Optical equipment --- Automatic speech recognition. --- Mechanical speech recognizer --- Speech recognition, Automatic --- Speech, Intelligibility of --- Speaking --- Human sounds --- Music --- Throat --- Diaphragm --- Elocution --- Larynx --- Physiological aspects

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This book is a unique documentation about the whole range of childhood cancer late effects and discusses their different ways of global influences. The number of childhood cancer survivors is increasing continuously. Thus the topic is also getting more important and well informed caregivers are needed in their institutions. Survivorship after childhood cancer is not the same as survivorship after cancer in adults’ age. All currently known late effects for former childhood cancer patients are explored in detail: not only organ-related but also psychosocial related long-term sequelae. It closes the gap of missing detailed information and their consequences for individuals and society. Past, presence, and future of childhood cancer late effects is presented as well as models of care for childhood cancer survivors. This book is essential for all professionals who work with childhood cancer survivors, no matter if oncologists, psychologists, social workers, or patient advocates. It is also a helpful textbook for university classrooms and seminars as well as for pediatric oncology fellowship programs.

Oncology. --- Pediatrics. --- Hematology. --- Clinical psychology. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Haematology --- Internal medicine --- Blood --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Medicine --- Children --- Tumors --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene

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Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, often cited as 5-HT) is one of the major excitatory neurotransmitter, and the serotonergic system is one of the best studied and understood transmitter systems. It is crucially involved in the organization of virtually all behaviours and in the regulation of emotion and mood. Alterations in the serotonergic system, induced by e.g. learning or pathological processes, underlie behavioural plasticity and changes in mood, which can finally results in abnormal behaviour and psychiatric conditions. Not surprisingly, the serotonergic system and its functional component

Neural transmission --- Neurochemistry --- Serotonin --- 5-HT (Neurotransmitter) --- Hydroxytryptamine --- Neurotransmitters --- Tryptamine --- Biochemistry --- Neurosciences --- Nerve transmission --- Nervous transmission --- Neurotransmission --- Synaptic transmission --- Transmission of nerve impulses --- Neural circuitry --- Neurophysiology

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Impedance Spectroscopy is a powerful measurement method used in many application fields such as electrochemistry, material science, biology and medicine, semiconductor industry and sensors.This book covers new advances in the field of impedance spectroscopy including fundamentals, methods and applications by contributions from international scientists. This book reports about new advances and different approaches in dealing with impedance spectroscopy including theory, methods and applications. Impedance spectroscopy is a widely used and interesting measurement method applied in many fields of science and technology such as electro chemistry, material science, biology and medicine. In spite of the apparently different scientific and application background in these fields, they share the same measurement method in a system identification approach and profit from the possibility to use complex impedance over a wide frequency range and giving interesting opportunities for separating effects, for accurate measurements and for simultaneous measurements of different and even non-accessible quantities. For Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) competency from several fields of science and technology is indispensable. Understanding electro chemical and physical phenomena is necessary for developing suitable models. Suitable measurement procedures should be developed taking specific requirements of the considered application into account. Signal processing methods are very important for extracting target information by suitable mathematical methods and algorithms. New trends are emerging rapidly involving special techniques for realizing fully automatic embedded solutions at low costs and requiring a deep overview of modern information technology.

Impedance spectroscopy. --- IS (Electrochemical analysis) --- Spectroscopy, Impedance --- Electrochemical analysis