PURPOSE In this study, the spatial and temporal relationship of wind speed, atmospheric particles concentration, and the industrial-induced noise levels during different times of the day were examined, using sawmill industrial location around Ile-Ife in Osun of Nigeria as a case study. METHODS Mobile devices were used to measure noise level and basic meteorological parameters were examined an...

We classify all compact 1-connected manifolds $M^n$ for $2 \leq n leq 7$ which are diffeomorphic to biquotients. Further, given that $M$ is diffeomorphic to a biquotient, we classify the biquotients it is diffeomorphic to. Finally, we show the homogeneous space $Sp(3)\Sp(1) \tines Sp(1)$ and two of its quotients $Sp(3)\Sp(1) \times Sp(1) \times S^1$ and $\delta S^1 \backslash Sp(3)/Sp(1)\times ...

In real human-robot interaction (HRI) scenarios, speech recognition represents a major challenge due to robot noise, background noise and time-varying acoustic channel. This document describes the procedure used to obtain the Multichannel Robot Speech Recognition Database (MChRSR). It is composed of 12 hours of multichannel evaluation data recorded in a real mobile HRI scenario. This database w...

Aim: The aim of the study was to examine relationship between noise exposure and incidence arterial hypertension as well annoyance sensitivity with hypertension. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey performed on 911 adult residents Niš, Serbia, whom 388 were men (42.6%) 523 women (57.4%). criterium for diagnosis that it diagnosed by a physician. Based measurement results noise, resid...

Up to now, traffic noise effect studies focused on hypertension as health outcome. Hypotension has not been considered as a potential health outcome although in experiments some people also responded to noise with decreases of blood pressure. Currently, the characteristics of these persons are not known and whether this down regulation of blood pressure is an experimental artifact, selection, o...

Approximate string matching with k differences is considered. Filtration of the text is a widely adopted technique to reduce the text area processed by dynamic programming. We present sublinear filtration algorithms based on the locations of q-grams in the pattern. Samples of q-grams are drawn from the text at fixed periods, and only if consecutive samples appear in the pattern approximately in...