The recent rise in media use has prompted researchers to investigate its influence on users' basic cognitive processes, such as attention and cognitive control. However, most of these investigations have failed to consider that the rise in media use has been accompanied by an even more dramatic rise in media multitasking (engaging with multiple forms of media simultaneously). Here we investigat...

In corn wet milling, dry matter can be separated from liquids in process streams with centrifuges or vacuum belt filtration (VBF). Because separations usually are not complete, dry matter can be lost in the liquid streams (overflow from the gluten thickener centrifuge and filtrate from VBF). This represents a loss of nutrients, especially protein, to low valued coproducts and reduces quality of...

The effect of order in separation media on DNA capillary zone electrophoresis is studied experimentally. A microfluidic technique based on colloidal self-assembly is employed to generate structures with different degrees of order. A model, SEM, and thermoporosimetry of the structures are employed to characterize media properties. The DNA mobility and dispersion coefficient is quantified in each...

Novel magnetic biochar has been successfully synthesized by using microwave technique, using discarded materials such as Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB). The optimized conditions for the best novel magnetic biochar synthesis are at 900 w reaction power, 20 min reaction time, and impregnation ratio 0.5 (biomas:FeCl3) The details physical and chemical analyses of novel magnetic biochar wer...

We present a new approach to the source separation problem for multiple speech signals. Using the extra visual information of the face speaker, the method aims to extract an acoustic speech signal from other acoustic signals by exploiting its coherence with the speaker’s lip movements. We define a statistical model of the joint probability of visual and spectral audio input for quantifying the ...

The advantages of immobilized enzyme over its soluble counterpart arise from their improved stability andeasy separation from the reaction media, leading to decrease in production cost. Immobilization methodsrange from adsorption onto matrices, entrapment, cross-linking and covalent bonding to prefabricatedcarriers or activated supports. Changes in kinetic properties of immobi...

In this contribution, we present a system for creating novel renderings of a given music recording that aurally highlight certain musical aspects or semantics using spatial localizations. The system decomposes a monaural audio recording into separate events using score-informed source separation techniques and prepares them for an interactive mobile player that renders audio based on semantic i...

Making machines that can understand musical structure has long been one of the holy grails of audio processing, separating overlapping sounds has been another. Here we present a simple framework initialy used for the first task, which has come to make itself very useful for source separation. We show that the same type of reasoning that allows one to find the building elements of a musical audi...

The automatic beat tracking from audio is still an open research task in the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) community. The goal of this paper is to show and discuss a work-in-progress of how audio source separation can be used for improving beat tracking estimations in difficult cases of music audio signal with highly predominant vocals. The audio source separation using FASST (Flexible Audi...