The TIMIT and KING databases are used to compare proven spectral processing techinques to an auditory neural representation for speaker identification. The feature sets compared are linear prediction ...coding (LPC) cepstral coefficients and auditory nerve firing rates using the Payton model (1988). Two clustering algorithms, one statistically based and the other a neural approach, are used to generate speaker-specific codebook vectors. These algorithms are the Linde-Buzo-Gray algorithm and a Kohonen self-organizing feature map. The resulting vector-quantized distortion-based classification indicates the auditory model performs statistically equal to the LPC cepstral representation in clean environments and outperforms the LPC cepstral in noisy environments and in test data recorded over multiple sessions (greater intra-speaker distortions).< >
Book reviews Frankel, Joseph; Cable, Vincent; Kapur, Ashok ...
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Foreign Policy Making in Developing States: a comparative approach. Edited by Christopher Clapham, Farnborough (UK): Saxon House. 1978. 148 pp. £8.50.
Tariff Protection and Growth in Developing ...Countries. Mona Fouad Attia, Rotterdam: Rotterdam University Press. 1976. 251 pp.
Exports of Manufactures from Developing Countries. A H M Mahfuzur Rahman, Rotterdam: Centre for Development Planning, Rotterdam University Press. 1973. 140 pp.
Policy Reform in Developing Countries. Bela Balassa, Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1977. 176 pp. £9.00. £5.95 pb.
Nuclear Proliferation and the Near-Nuclear Countries. Edited by Onkar Marwah & Ann Schultz, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger. 1975. 350 pp £11.60. (Distributed in UK by John Wiley)
Sociology and Development. Edited by E de Kadt and G Williams, London: Tavistock Publications Ltd. 1974. (Reprinted 1976). 374 pp. £4.25.
An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development. Norman Long, London: Methuen &Co Ltd. 1977. 221 pp. £3.25 pb.
Growing out of Poverty. Elizabeth Stamp, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1977. 165 pp. £4.25.
The United Nations System: coordinating its economic and social work. Martin Hill, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 252 pp. £13.50.
The United Nations in Bangladesh. Thomas W Oliver, Princeton University Press. 1978. 231 pp. US$20.
International Money: issues and analysis. Andrew Crockett, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1978. 250 pp. £3.95 pb.
The Failure of World Monetary Reform 1971-74. John Williamson, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1977. 221 pp. £3.25.
The International Monetary Tangle: myths and realities. Guillaume Guindey, Oxford: Blackwells. 1977. 121 pp. £7.85.
Research and Development Abroad by US Multinationals. Robert Ronstadt, New York: Praeger. 1977. 150 pp. £11.25.
International Migration and Dependence. Stephen Adler, Farnborough (UK): Saxon House. 1977. 235 pp. £8.50.
The Seventh Enemy: the human factor in the global crisis. Ronald Higgins, London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1978. 303 pp. £5.95.
The Disintegrating West. Mary Kaldor, London: Allen Lane-Penguin Books Ltd. 1978. 219 pp. £5.50.
The Changing Face of the Third World: regional and national studies. Edited by Josef Nyilas, Budapest: Department of World Economy, Karl Marx University of Economic. Sciences. 1978. 431 pp.
Interdependent Development. Harold Brookfield, London: Methuen. 1977. 233 pp. £3.30.
Oil Companies in the International System. Louis Turner, London: George Allen &Unwin. 1978. 222 pp. £8.50.
Venezuela's Oil. Romullo Betancourt, London: George Allen & Unwin. 1978. 275 pp. £3.95.
Namibia Old and New. Gerhard Tötemeyer, London: C Hurst & Company Ltd. 1978. 257 pp. £9.50.
Buying Time in South Africa. CIS Anti-Report No. 21, London: Counter Information Services. 1978. 56 pp. £0.95 pb.
Revolutionary Pressures in Africa. Claude Ake, London: Zed Press Ltd. 1978. 109 pp. £6.50.
The Guerilla Reader: a historical anthology. Edited by Walter Laqueur, London: Wildwood House. 1978. 246 pp. £5.95.
Negotiating Third World Mineral Agreements: promises as prologue. David N Smith and Louis T Wells Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company. 1975. 266 pp. £10.80. (Distributed in the UK by John Wiley)
Economic Growth and Distribution in China. Nicholas R Lardy, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 244 pp. £12.
The Peasant and the Raj: studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in colonial India. Eric Stokes, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 308 pp. £12.50.
Women of the World: illusion and reality. Urmila Phadnis and Indira Malani, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House. 1978. 283 pp.
Message from the Village. Perdita Huston, New York: Epoch B Foundation. 1978. 120 pp. US $3.95.
Living Black. Kevin Gilbert, London: Allen Lane - the Penguin Press. 1977. 305 pp. £7.00.
The Economics of the Arab World. Yusif A Sayigh, London: Croom Helm. 1978. 726 pp. £35.
The Determinants of Arab Economic Development. Yusif A Sayigh, London: Croom Helm. 1978. 181 pp. £12.95.
The Arabs' New Frontier. Robert Stephens, London: Temple Smith (second revised edition). 1976. 279 pp. £5.50.
Emergency in Perspective; reprieve and challenge. Sachchidanand Sinha, London: Books from India Ltd. 1977. 122 pp. £3.75.
Inside India Today. Dilip Hiro, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. (reprinted 1978) 293 pp. £3.95 pb.
The Essential JP: the philosophy and prison diary of Jayaprakash Narayan. Edited by Satish Kumar, Dorchester (UK): Prism Press. 1978. 153 pp. £4.95.
Women of Vietnam. Arlene Eisen Bergman, San Francisco: People's Press. 1975 (revised edition). 255 pp. £2.95.. (Distributed in the UK by Zed Press)
Land and Labour in Latin America. Edited by Kenneth Duncan and Ian Rutledge with the collaboration of Colin Harding Cambridge Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Press. 1977. 535 pp. £17.50.
Secession: the legitimacy of self-determination. Lee C Buchheit, New Haven: Yale University Press. 1978. 260 pp. £12.60.
Book reviews Riley, Stephen; Taylor, Trevor; Guelke, Adrian ...
Third World Quarterly,
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Making the Most of the Least: alternative ways to development. Edited by Leonard Berry and Robert W Kates, New York: Holmes & Meier. 1980. 282pp. £17.25
The Study of Political Adaptation. James N ...Rosenau, London: Frances Pinter. 1981. 235pp. £15.00. £6.00pb
Perspectives on World Politics. Edited by Michael Smith, Richard Little and Michael Shackleton, London: Croom Helm. 1980. 431pp. £12.95
Vodka-Cola: the explosive cocktail of detente. Charles Levinson Horsham, England: Biblias. 1980.328pp. £9.95
White Supremacy: a comparative study in American and South African history. George M Fredrickson, New York: OUP. 1981. 356pp. £12.50
The Third World Calamity. Brian May, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1981. 274pp. £8.95
Reflections on Economic Development and Social Change: essays in honour of Professor V K R V Rao. Edited by C H H Rao and P C Joshi, Oxford: Martin Robertson. 1979. 486pp. £19.50
Circle of Poison: pesticides and people in a hungry world. David Weir and Mark Schapiro San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy. 1981. 101pp. $3.95pb
United States Food Aid in a Global Context. Mitchell B Wallerstein, London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1980. 299pp. £21.00
The World of States. J D B Miller, London: Croom Helm. 1981.179pp. £12.50
The Development Gap: a spatial analysis of world poverty and inequality. J P Cole Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1981. 454pp. £16.80
Agribusiness in the Americas. Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn, London: Monthly Review Press. 1980. 314pp. £3.25
A Plough in Field Arable: western agribusiness in Third World agriculture. Sarah Potts Voll London: University of New Hampshire. 1981. 213pp. £7.25
Food Policies. John R Tarrant Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1980. 338pp. £15.00
The Political Economy of EEC Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States: contributions to the understanding of the Lomé Convention on North-South relations. Edited by Frank Long, Oxford: Pergamon. 1980. 192pp. £10.50
EEC and the Third World: a survey. Edited by Christopher Stevens, London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1981. 150pp. £5.00pb
A Framework for Development: the EEC and the ACP. Carol Cosgrove Twitchett, London: George Allen & Unwin. 1981. 160pp. £12.00
The EEC's Generalised Scheme of Preferences and the Yaoundé and Other Agreements: benefits in trade and development for less developed countries. Delsie M Gandia Montclair, US: Allanheld Osmun. 1981. 178pp. $20.00
The Trade Union Movement in Africa: promise and performance. Wogu Ananaba, London: C Hurst. 1979. 260pp. £9.00
Organise... or Starve: the history of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. Ken Luckhardt and Brenda Walls, London: Lawrence & Wishart. 1980. 520pp. £7.95. £3.50pb
Conflict and Intervention in the Horn of Africa. Bereket Habte Selassie, London: Monthly Review Press. 1980. 211pp. £8.00
The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Kenya 1918-77. Nicola Swainson, London: Heinemann Educational. 1980. 306pp. £3.95pb
Soviet and Chinese Aid to African Nations. Editd by Warren Weinstein and Thomas H Henriksen, New York: Praeger. 1980. 184pp. £13.00
Nepal in Crisis: growth and stagnation at the periphery P Blaikie, J Cameron and D Seddon, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1980. 311pp. £17.50.
Electoral Politics in the Middle East: issues, voters and elites. Edited by Jacob M Landau, Ergun Özbudun and Frank Tachau, London: Croom Helm & Stanford: Hoover Institution. 1980. 335pp. £19.95
Survey of Economy, Resources and Prospects of South Asia. M L Qureshi Colombo: Marga Institute (in association with Third World Foundation). 1981. 274pp. np
Sociology of Southeast Asia: readings on social change and development. Edited by Hans-Dieter Evers Oxford University Press. 1981. 292pp. £17.50.
State Manufacturing Enterprise in a Mixed Economy: the Turkish case. Bertil Walstedt, London: John Hopkins (for the World Bank). 1981. 354pp. £6.00
The Political Economy of Income Distribution in Turkey. Edited by Ergun Özbudun and Aydin Ulusan, London: Holmes & Meier. 1980. 533pp. £22.95
Minangkabau Social Formations: Indonesian peasants and the world economy. Joel S Kahn, Cambridge University Press. 1980. 228pp. £15.00
Industrial Growth, Employment and Foreign Investment in Peninsula Malaysia. Lutz Hoffman and Tan Siew Ee Oxford University Press. 1980. 322pp. £19.50
Egypt: economic management in a period of transition. Khalid Ikram, London: John Hopkins University Press. 1980. 444pp. np
Korea: a decade of development. Edited by Yunshik Chang Seoul National University Press. 1980. 312pp. $10.00
Pakhtun Economy and Society. Akbar S Ahmed, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1980. 416pp. £15.00
Chinese Educational Policy. Jan-Ingvar Lofstedt Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. 1980. 203pp. SKr 185
The Caribbean Issues of Emergence: socio-economic and political perspective. Vincent R McDonald, Washington DC: University of America. 1980. 356pp. $21.25. $11.95pb
The Structure of Brazilian Development. Edited by Nuema Aguiar New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books. 1979. 258pp. $14.95
Literacy and Revolution: the pedagogy of Paulo Freire. Edited by Robert Mackie, London: Pluto Press. 1980. 166pp. £3.50pb
Theories of Imperialism. Wolfgang J Mommsen, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1981. 180pp. £8.50
Colonialism 1870-1945: an introduction. D K Fieldhouse, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1981. 151pp. £8.95
