In this study, the use of alternative acoustic sensors in human-robot communication is investigated. In particular, a Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) microphone was applied in teleoperating Geminoid HI-1 robot in noisy environments. The current study introduces the methodology and the results of speech intelligibility subjective tests when a NAM microphone was used in comparison with using a standard ...

A cohort of Japanese encephalitis (JE) survivors in Cambodia and Viet Nam were assessed at least 4 months after hospital discharge in order to understand the extent of disability after JE. We used a simple assessment tool which focuses on the impact on daily life. In total, 64 disability assessments were conducted: 38 in Cambodia and 26 in Viet Nam. In Cambodia, 4 (11%) children had severe sequ...

Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyungbuk, Republic of Korea, 790-784. Division of Integrative Biosciences and Bio-technology, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyungbuk, Republic of Korea, 790-784. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Biomed...

Department of Mechanics of Materials, School of Mechanical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, No. 1, Dai Co Viet Road, Hanoi, Viet Nam b International Research Center for Computational Materials Science, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, No. 1, Dai Co Viet Road, Hanoi, Viet Nam Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, M/C 0219, Virginia Polytechnic Instit...

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Plasma amino acid response of wethers to abomasal infusions of DL-methionine (DLM), DL-homocysteine thiolactone-HCl (HCTL) and N-acetyl-DL-methionine (NAM), in vivo rumen stability of the latter two methionine analogs and preintestinal absorption of HCTL were studied. The daily infusion of 1.06 g of DLM elevated molar percentage of methionine and lysine in plasma'and decreased molar percentage ...

In this paper, we review our recent research on technologies for processing body-conducted speech detected with Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) microphone. NAM microphone enables us to detect various types of body-conducted speech such as extremely soft whisper, normal speech, and so on. Moreover, it is robust against external noise due to its noise-proof structure. To make speech communication more u...

The NAM-to-speech conversion proposed by Toda and colleagues which converts Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) to audible speech by statistical mapping trained using aligned corpora is a very promising technique, but its performance is still insufficient, mainly due to the difficulty in estimating F0 of the transformed voice from unvoiced speech. In this paper, we propose a method to improve F0 estimatio...

Describing the genetic diversity in the gene pool of crops will provide breeders with novel resources for varietal improvement. Nested Association Mapping (NAM) populations are uniquely suited for characterizing parental diversity through the shuffling and fixation of parental haplotypes. Here, we describe a set of 1879 rice NAM lines created through the selfing and single-seed descent of F1 hy...

Correspondence to Nam-Jong Paik Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 82 Gumi-ro 173-beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 13620, Korea. Tel: +82-31-787-7731 Fax: +82-31-712-3913 E-mail: [email protected] Ja-ho Leigh, Jong Youb Lim, Moon-Ku Han, Hee-Joon Bae, Won-Seok Kim, Nam-Jong Paik A Prospective Comparison ...