Speech is easily produced with regular periodic patterns—as if spoken to a metronome. If we ask what it is that is periodically spaced, the answer is a perceptual ‘beat’ that occurs near the onset of vowels (especially stressed ones). Surprisingly, when periodically produced speech is studied it exhibits attractors at harmonic fractions (especially halves and thirds) of the basic periodicity. I...

Background: Mobile diabetes apps enable health care professionals (HCPs) to monitor patient progress, offer remote consultations, and allow more effective and informed treatment decisions between patients and HCPs. The OneTouch Reveal app aggregates data from a blood glucose meter and provides analytics to help patients and HCPs visualize glycemic trends and patterns, enabling more informed tre...

Approximately 18 million people suffer from diabetes mellitus, also known as diabetes, only in the United States which is 5% of the total population. It is the seventh leading cause of death. By 2020, the cost associated with diabetic treatment is expected to rise as high as $192 billion (Freer, March 2011). There is no cure for diabetic till date. Measuring glucose level in a diabetic patient ...

In this paper we present results from the METER (MEasuring TExt Reuse) project whose aim is to explore issues pertaining to text reuse and derivation, especially in the context of newspapers using newswire sources. Although the reuse of text by journalists has been studied in linguistics, we are not aware of any investigation using existing computational methods for this particular task. We inv...

This paper introduces a novel way to detect metrical structure in music. We introduce a way to compute autocorrelation such that the distribution of energy in phase space is preserved in a matrix. The resulting autocorrelation phase matrix is useful for several tasks involving metrical structure. First we can use the matrix to enhance standard autocorrelation by calculating the Shannon entropy ...

A microcontroller based capacitance meter using 89C52 microcontroller for the measurement of capacitance has been design and developed. It is based on the principle of charging and discharging of the capacitor. Atmel’s AT89C52 microcontroller is used in the present study. Further, an LCD module is interfaced with the microcontroller in 4-bit mode, which reduces the hardware complexity. Software...

The widespread deployment of smart meters for electricity gas and water consumption to modernise the electricity systems, has been associated with privacy concerns. In this paper, we present protocols that can be used to privately compute aggregate meter measurements, allowing for fraud and leakage detection as well as further statistical processing of meter measurements, without revealing any ...