Abstract: The present disclosure relates to substituted thiophene carboxamides and analogues thereof of formula (I) that may be used for protecting plants from bacterial diseases, in particular from bacterial diseases caused by bacteria belonging to the genus Xanthomonas.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for associating and reconciling disparate key-value pairs corresponding to a target entity across multiple organizational entities using a distributed match. A shared output mapping may be generated that associates and reconciles common and/or conceptually aligned key-value pairs across the multiple organizational entities. The shared output mapping allows any given organizational entity to leverage information known to other organizational entities about a target entity. In this manner, the organizational entities participate in an information sharing ecosystem that enables each organizational entity to provide a user with a more optimally customized user experience based on the greater breadth of information available through the shared output mapping.

Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic phase mask, the phase mask having a variation in the acoustic index n, characterized in that the phase mask comprises a body comprising: at least one matrix formed from a deformable solid material, having a shear modulus of less than 10 MPa, and pores formed in the matrix, the pores being mostly filled with gas, the deformable solid material extending between the pores, the body having a porosity ? less than or equal to 50%, and a controlled porosity ? gradient resulting in a variation of the acoustic index n spatially in the body.

Abstract: A porous acoustic bead resonator is provided, wherein the Young's modulus of the material of the resonator is lower than 1 GPa and the porosity of the resonator is comprised between 20% and 50%, most of the pores of the resonator being filled with a gas and most of the pores being interconnected, via at least one pore, with the exterior of the resonator.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for associating and reconciling disparate key-value pairs corresponding to a target entity across multiple organizational entities using a distributed match. A shared output mapping may be generated that associates and reconciles common and/or conceptually aligned key-value pairs across the multiple organizational entities. The shared output mapping allows any given organizational entity to leverage information known to other organizational entities about a target entity. In this manner, the organizational entities participate in an information sharing ecosystem that enables each organizational entity to provide a user with a more optimally customized user experience based on the greater breadth of information available through the shared output mapping.

Abstract: A porous acoustic bead resonator is provided, wherein the Young's modulus of the material of the resonator is lower than 1 GPa and the porosity of the resonator is comprised between 20% and 50%, most of the pores of the resonator being filled with a gas and most of the pores being interconnected, via at least one pore, with the exterior of the resonator.

Abstract: An auditory user interactive interface to an application program being installed in the computer controlled system. A routine in an object, in an application program being installed in the computer controlled system for providing an auditory user interface to the program in combination with auditory means for offering the user of the computer controlled system the auditory user interface during installation of said application program, and responsive to the selection of the auditory interface provides the auditory user interface during said installation of the application program.

Abstract: An auditory user interactive interface to an application program being installed in the computer controlled system. A routine in an object, in an application program being installed in the computer controlled system for providing an auditory user interface to the program in combination with auditory means for offering the user of the computer controlled system the auditory user interface during installation of said application program, and responsive to the selection of the auditory interface provides the auditory user interface during said installation of the application program.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided to automate the mapping so that custom widgets that cause compliance errors in the Web page can be identified automatically. The mechanism dynamically creates and inserts debug directives into the HTML code generated from a custom widget in a Web page so that a compliance error found in the generated code can be traced back to the custom widget that caused the error.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided to automate the mapping so that custom widgets that cause compliance errors in the Web page can be identified automatically. The mechanism dynamically creates and inserts debug directives into the HTML code generated from a custom widget in a Web page so that a compliance error found in the generated code can be traced back to the custom widget that caused the error.

Abstract: A client-side application receives an initial page from an application server that includes initial content and provides the initial page to a user. Next, the client-side application receives user input corresponding to the initial page and updates a portion of the initial content, which results in updated content and unmodified initial content. Subsequently, the client-side application formats the updated content and adds markup tags that describe the updated content. The client-side application then sends the updated content and the markup tags to a verification server. As a result, the client-side application receives a verification report from the verification server that corresponds to the updated content and the markup tags. The client-side application determines whether the verification report includes a verification error and, if so, the client-side application provides the verification error to the user.

Abstract: A data processing system collects video and audio samples of acceptable speech production. A video camera focuses on a speaker's face and, particularly, articulation visible in the area of the mouth or other body movements associated with speech production. Video files are used to archive acceptable and unacceptable productions. These files may then be used to provide feedback about acceptable and unacceptable ways to produce speech. A speech professional or language teacher may play a model speech production and a subject speech attempt simultaneously to compare articulation, audio analysis, and appearance of articulators. A subject may play a model speech production and record a speech attempt simultaneously to attempt to mimic the appearance of articulators. Image processing may be used to create a mirror image of a video model or a current attempt or both to avoid left-right confusion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for interfacing a device driver in real time applications are provided. On input, the device driver is probed to determine a data sample block size supported by the device driver. The device driver delivers data samples to a buffer at each interrupt. The buffer is accessed to determine the presence of data in at least one buffer entry, or block. At each such access, a first counter is incremented to point to a next buffer entry to be accessed. One or more buffer entries are filled at each interrupt, with any data samples not sufficient to fill an entry held by the device driver until a subsequent interrupt. A second counter is incremented by the number of entries filled by the device driver. The size of each block in the buffer is incremented until the number of data samples held by the device driver between each interrupt corresponds to the size of the block, wherein each of the first and second counters increment by one, on each access to the buffer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed that allows people to carry on unobtrusive phone conversations in business or other settings where it is either not possible or impolite to talk. In the system of FIG. 1, the telephone user one will listen in the same manner as with a regular telephone. However, he will not speak into the telephone microphone. User one instead employs a unit including a keyboard to enter the text corresponding to what he wants to say. The text is converted into a synthesized speech using TTS apparatus and a voice output is sent to the microphone of the phone apparatus. The telephone apparatus transmits the synthesized voice signal over a standard telephone line to a unit including a conventional telephone speaker 26 and telephone microphone. User two, the party using the telephone at the other end, listens to a synthesized voice, but user one listens to the actual voice of user two with the telephone speaker, unless user two is also using a system similar to that of user one.

Abstract: Selecting human speech samples for a speech model of human speech is preformed. The system presents a graphic representing a human speech sample on a computer display, e.g., an amplitude vs. time graph of the speech sample. Through user input, the system marks a segment of the graphic. The marked segment of the graphic represents a portion of the human speech sample. The system plays the portion of the human speech sample represented by the marked segment back to the user to allow the user to determine its acceptability for inclusion in the speech model. If so indicated by the user, the portion of the human speech sample represented by the marked segment is selected for inclusion in the speech model. The system also analyzes the portion of the human speech sample represented by the marked segment for acoustic properties. These properties are presented to the user in a graphic of the analyzed portion representative of the acoustic properties, e.g.