Currently, most approaches to speech recognition are frame-based in that they represent speech as a temporal sequence of feature vectors. Although these approaches have been successful, they cannot easily incorporate complex modeling strategies that may further improve speech recognition performance. In contrast, segment-based approaches represent speech as a temporal graph of feature vectors a...

D. Molodtsov (1999) introduced the concept of a soft set as a new approach for modeling uncertainties. The aim of this work is to define special kinds of soft sets, namely soft, L-fuzzifying soft, L-soft, and L-fuzzy soft neighborhood sets and to use them in order to give an alternative characterization of categories related to topology: crisp topological, L-topological, L-fuzzifying topologica...

Introduction: Trunk-like continuum robots have wide applications in manipulation and locomotion. In particular, trunk-like soft arms exhibit high dexterity adaptability very similar to the creatures of natural world. However, owing bodies, their performance payload spatial movements is limited. Methods: this paper, we investigate influence key design parameters on robotic performance. It verifi...

The National Health Service is being re-engineered. One of the components is that public health medicine needs to be delivered differently but effectively. It has been proposed that this should be done via managed public health networks (MPHNs). Underpinning this re-engineering there is an increasing role for ICT (information and communication technologies) and previous work suggests that most ...

This paper presents a robotic manipulation system capable of autonomously positioning a multi-segment soft fluidic elastomer robot in three dimensions. Specifically, we present an extremely soft robotic manipulator morphology that is composed entirely from low durometer elastomer, powered by pressurized air, and designed to be both modular and durable. To understand the deformation of a single ...

3.1 CHAPTER SUMMARY The solid state structure-property behavior was investigated of a series of poly(ether-blockamide) PEBAX thermoplastic elastomers based on nylon 12 and polytetramethylene oxide with varying hard segment content. Particular emphasis was placed on better defining the morphological features of this series of commercially available materials. Compression molded and solution cast...

vehicle detection and classification of vehicles play an important role in decision making for the purpose of traffic control and management.this paper presents novel approach of automating detecting and counting vehicles for traffic monitoring through the usage of background subtraction and morphological operators. We present adaptive background subtraction that is compatible with weather and ...

0 2000 (a) Figure 4: Lossless modeling of audio segments using MSDEs. (a) A segment of audio (violin) signal, (b) modeling coeecients for two scale modeling with = 2, (c) coeecients for two scale modeling with = 3, and (d) coeecients for three scale modeling with = 2.

a lot of researches have investigated the effects of topical cyclosporine a on the eye surface layers' diseases. by now the main limitation in cyclosporine application is the low permeation of the drug into the posterior segments of the eye. the aim of present study was to formulate high permeable dosage form can be beneficial in the topical treatment of the uveitis. to reach higher corneal dru...