I needed to resample some wavefiles for a project. In first instance, I used Audacity (1.3.13-beta) running in a MacBook Pro. After finding many aliasing errors I went back to analyze the results of the resampling. Here some pics:

The results with  Audacity ® 1.3.13-beta (Unicode) and Matlab are much noisier than those obtained with Praat.

Related to music and sound:

one syllabe \approx 150-250 ms (Schegloff, 2000)
between-speaker silence 200 ms (Walker & Triboli, 1982)
fastest a human can react to some stimulus with a vocal response under maximally conditions \approx. 200 ms (Fry,1975; Izdebski & Shipp, 1978; Shipp & al., 1984)

Source: http://dined.io.tudelft.nl/dined/# (Dutch (18-30 y) mixed 2003)

Under my rough amphibian skin, I’m still a prince. Sure I can give many kisses, but only a princess will break my spell.

con una cara tan dulce que la devoraban las hormigas

I found very little the small caps (\sc, \scshape, etc.) I was using in a document. I solved adding to the preamble this  line:
\usepackage[scaled=.9]{helvet}

Change the ‘.9′ value according to your needs

I needed to create a publication list for my dissertation. I wanted it to include the abstracts and be sorted descendant by publication date.

There is already an abstract.bst file that outputs the bibliography items with abstract, but it sort them by author. So that messed up my file, because I wasn’t the first author in all these publications. There is also a plainyr-rev.bst that sort the bibitems by year. So I combined them both to have a descendant-by-year-abstract-included output. This is the Bibtex Style File for Publication Lists with Abstract (descYrWithAbst.bst).

I use BibDesk to mantain my bibtex database. I created a Smart group that contains all the entries where I am an author. I have the tex view in the bottom panel, and in the BibDesk’s Preferences, I modify the Tex template like this:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{url, gensymb} % include packages according to your needs
\pagestyle{empty}
\title{Publication List}
\author{Juli\'an Villegas}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\nocite{<<CiteKeys>>}
\bibliography{<<File>>}
\bibliographystyle{./descYrWithAbst}
\end{document}


This method is convenient because it can be used to generate an well-formed HTML file without all the curly braces and such those the BibDesk includes. I’m using SimpleTeX4ht to generate the HTML file. The ‘Publications‘ page of this website was generated that way.

Hope it helps!

I upgraded Mac Os X to the version 10.6.1 and I found that my mysql database stopped working, This is how I fix it:
Open a Terminal and type
sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.0.51b-osx10.5-x86/* /usr/local/mysql

Then, look for the MySQL icon in the System Preference panel and click it. Let it reopen (as the message says), and that’s it. Mysql is running as it was before upgrading the operative system.

Hope it helps.

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