Constructing speech interfaces to large knowledge bases is difficult. Increasing the scope of the knowledge base often results in a decrease in speech-recognition accuracy. Re-engineering the input language to improve accuracy often necessitates non-trivial modification to the knowledge-base query processor. This problem is compounded if sophisticated techniques are used to analyze input to obt...

Herein, the interand intra-site correlation properties of shadow fading and power-weighted angular spread at both the mobile station and the base station are studied utilizing narrow band multi-site MIMO measurements in the 1800MHz band. The influence of the distance between two base stations on the correlation is studied in an urban environment. Measurements have been conducted for two differe...

the aim of this study is to compare the sensitometric properties of commonly used radiographic films processed with chemical solutions in different workload hospitals. the effect of different processing conditions on induced densities on radiologic films was investigated. two accessible double emulsions fuji and kodak films were exposed with 11-step wedge and processed with champion and cpac pr...

T he phenomenal improvements in microprocessor performance place significant demands on memory systems , requiring a low latency, high-band-width stream of operands. Researchers point out that DRAM access latencies (measured in processor cycles) are growing and any request that misses in the caches may eventually take hundreds of cycles to satisfy. These researchers have proposed many technique...

OBJECTIVES New signal processing technologies have recently become available for Baha® sound processors. These technologies have led to an increase in power and to the implementation of directional microphones. For any new technology, it is important to evaluate the degree of benefit under different listening situations. METHODS Twenty wearers of the Baha osseointegrated hearing system partic...

As natural language processing systems become more frequent in clinical use, methods for interpreting the output of these programs become increasingly important. These methods require the effort of a domain expert, who must build specific queries and rules for interpreting the processor output. Knowledge discovery and data mining tools can be used instead of a domain expert to automatically gen...

The paper presents the results of a novel method for the instruction-level energy consumption measurement and the corresponding modeling approach for embedded microprocessors. According to the proposed method the base and interinstruction energy costs of the ARM7TDMI embedded processor as well as the energy cost due to different values in the instruction parameters are modeled. These models can...

This paper presents the INSIDE system that rapidly searches the design space for extensible processors, given area and performance constraints of an embedded application, while minimizing the design turn-around-time. Our system consists of a) a methodology to determine which code segments are most suited for implementation as a set of extensible instructions, b) a heuristic algorithm to select ...

This paper presents the INSIDE system that rapidly searches the design space for extensible processors, given area and performance constraints of an embedded application, while minimizing the design turn-around-time. Our system consists of a) a methodology to determine which code segments are most suited for implementation as a set of extensible instructions, b) a heuristic algorithm to select ...

This paper presents a real-time fullprogrammable fuzzy processor using piecewiselinear intelpolation techniques and implements it using the SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) set of instructions of an Intel Pentium III. A fullprogrammable fuzzy processor is defined as a system where the set of rules, the membership finctions, the t-norm, the t-conorm, the aggregation operator, the propagation oper...