In this paper, an integrated feedback and noise reduction scheme in hearing aids is developed. The technique presented is based on the adaptive feedback cancellation (AFC) and general sidelobe canceller (GSC) with a band-limited adaptation method to better the convergence behavior of both AFC and GSC. The band pass pre-filter is applied to AFC and the band stop pre-filter is applied to GSC to i...

The capacity of cells and organisms to respond to challenging conditions in a repeatable manner is limited by a finite repertoire of pre-evolved adaptive responses. Beyond this capacity, cells can use exploratory dynamics to cope with a much broader array of conditions. However, the process of adaptation by exploratory dynamics within the lifetime of a cell is not well understood. Here we demon...

This paper presents LS-Plan, a system capable of providing Educational Hypermedia with adaptation and personalization. The architecture of LS-Plan is based on three main components: the Adaptation Engine, the Planner and the Teacher Assistant. Dynamic course generation is driven by an adaptation algorithm, based on Learning Styles, as defined by Felder-Silverman’s model. The Planner, based on L...

Populations adapt to novel environments in two distinct ways: selection on pre-existing genetic variation and selection on new mutations. These alternative sources of beneficial alleles can result in different evolutionary dynamics and distinct genetic outcomes. Compared with new mutations, adaptation from standing genetic variation is likely to lead to faster evolution, the fixation of more al...

the present study is an attempt to analyze the characters in the novel blindness and its cinematic adapta- tion from intersemiotic viewpoint. to this end, the researchers provided a synthesized model, which is a combination of bernando (2012) and forster's (1927) classification of characters in order to analyze the two main characters from intersemiotic viewpoint. considering the differenc...

This paper addresses instantaneous speaker adaptation, based on feature-space maximum likelihood linear regression (fMLLR), in the context of an automatic transcription task. We investigate the use of fMLLR-based adaptation when the need of a preliminary decoding pass for a speech segment is removed, as sufficient statistics for adaptation parameter estimation are gathered with respect to a Gau...

High-level adaptation effects reveal important features of the neural coding of objects and faces. View-adaptation in particular is a highly useful means of characterizing how depth rotation of the face is represented and therefore, how view-invariant recognition of the face may be achieved. In the present study, we used view adaptation to determine the extent to which depth rotations of a face...

Understanding the genetics of how organisms adapt to changing environments is a fundamental topic in modern evolutionary ecology. The field is currently progressing rapidly because of advances in genomics technologies, especially DNA sequencing. The aim of this review is to first briefly summarise how next generation sequencing (NGS) has transformed our ability to identify the genes underpinnin...

With increasing capabilities of mobile devices, the number of mobile multimedia services grows steadily. Usage of multimedia services and especially the presentation of multimedia content is more challenging in a mobile environment than on stationary devices due to the diversity of mobile devices and their parameters, the sparse resources of the air interface or the changing context. This posit...

We describe two adaptation strategies which are used in our word segmentation system in participating the Microblog word segmentation bake-off: Domain invariant information is extracted from the in-domain unlabelled corpus, and is incorporated as supplementary features to conventional word segmenter based on Conditional Random Field (CRF), we call it statistic-based adaptation. Some heuristic r...