Recently, high-speed multimedia communication systems have become widespread. Not only conventional narrow band speech signal (up to 3.4 kHz) but also wide band speech signal (up to 7 kHz) can be transmitted through high-speed communication lines. Generally, the quality of wide band speech signal is high and its articulation score is good for normal-hearing people, but for elderly people who ha...

in recent years, sub-band speech recognition has been found useful in addressing the need for robustness in speech recognition, especially for the speech contaminated by band-limited noise. in sub-band speech recognition, the full band speech is divided into several frequency sub-bands, with the result of the recognition task given by the combination of the sub-band feature vectors or their lik...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the P300 event-related potentials (ERP) from background Electroencephalograph (EEG) of working memory performance by visual stimuli task. The proposed analysis for each channel at the prefrontal cortex is to compare the energy distribution via wavelet scalogram with the change of time and frequency of ERP signals. Wavelet energy distribution gives a l...

ZnS12xTex (0.022) isoelectronic centers. The pressure coefficients of the emission bands ar...

Complications of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) are well documented including migration, erosion, prolapse, infection, pouch dilatation, and gastric perforation. Band prolapse within the first 5 years after LAGB is observed in about 5% of cases, requiring an operative procedure. Here we report our experience of endoscopic treatment of band prolapses. From December 2007 to Decemb...

Background: The critical role of interleukin-7 (IL-7) in homeostatic proliferation and T cell survival has made it a promising cytokine for the treatment of various clinical conditions, especially those associated with lymphopenia. Methods: In the present study we expressed recombinant human interleukin-7 (rhIL-7) in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO)-K1 cells. CHO-K1 cells were stably transfected ...

In this paper, we propose robust features for the problem of voice activity detection (VAD). In particular, we extend the long term signal variability (LTSV) feature to accommodate multiple spectral bands. The motivation of the multi-band approach stems from the non-uniform frequency scale of speech phonemes and noise characteristics. Our analysis shows that the multi-band approach offers advan...

In this paper, wide band balanced antenna with enhanced bandwidth performance that covers the 850 to 3000 MHZ of Band, covering the GSM, UMTS, Bluetooth, GPS, & Wi-Fi applications is investigated[1-4]. This antenna was designed in HFSS which have low profile, linear phase and constant radiation pattern with proper return loss and resonant on multiple frequencies. This proposed antenna was then ...

Air-borne and space-borne acquired hyperspectral images are used to recognize objects and to classify materials on the surface of the earth. The state of the art compressor for lossless compression of hyperspectral images is the Spectral oriented Least SQuares (SLSQ) compressor (see [1–7]). In this paper we discuss hyperspectral image compression: we show how to visualize each band of a hypersp...