Detection of audio spoofing attacks has become vital for automatic speaker verification systems. Spoofing attacks can be obtained with several ways, such as speech synthesis, voice conversion, replay, and mimicry. Extracting discriminative features from speech data can improve the accuracy of detecting these attacks. In fact, a frame-wise weighted magnitude spectrum is found to be effective to detect replay attacks recently. In this work, discriminative features are obtained in a similar fashion (frame-wise weighting), however, a cosine normalized phase spectrum is used since phase-based features have shown decent performance for the given task. The extracted features are then fed to a convolutional neural network as input. In the experiments ASVspoof 2015 and 2017 databases are used to investigate the proposed system’s spoof detection performance for both synthetic and replay attacks, respectively. The results showed that the proposed approach achieved 34.5% relative decrease in the average EER for ASVspoof 2015 evaluation set, compared to the ordinary cosine normalized phase features. Furthermore, the proposed system outperformed the others at detecting S10 attack type of ASVspoof 2015 database.

The influence of different nozzle types and adjuvants on the biological efficacy of fungicides in potato was investigated in four growing seasons in the years 1997-2000. The studied foliar plant disease was late blight (Phytophthora infestans). The biological efficacy of fungicides (alone or with adjuvants) applied with coarse air induction nozzles was comparable to fine standard flat fan nozzle. The differences between the nozzle types tested were small in control oflate blight in potato with systemic and contact fungicides. Coverage of upper side of leaf blades was from three to four times higher than lower side of leaf blades. In general, the highest coverage of upper and lower side of leaf was achieved when the full dosage rate of fungicide (copper oxychloride) was used with both the flat fan XR 110-03 and air induction DB 120-03 nozzle. Adding Atpolan 80 EC and Zero Piany 62 SL to 50% dosage rate of copper oxychloride decreased the spray coverage on lower side ofleaf as well as with both the XR 110-03 and DB 120-03 nozzles. However, addition of adjuvants to spray solution did not decrease the deposition on upper side of leaf blade. In general, adjuvants did not considerably influence the biological efficacy of the fungicide treatments sprayed with both the flat fan and the air induction nozzles but had favourable influence on potato yield.