The presence of babble noise is one of the most difficult environments to sustain speech system performance. This study focuses on acoustic and perceptual analyses of babble. The acoustic variability of babble is analyzed as a function of the number of speakers in babble. The concept of acoustic volume is proposed and it is shown that the acoustic volume reduces as the number of speakers in bab...

Recently, Cockburn, Coquel and LeFloch proved convergence and error estimates for higher-order finite volume schemes. Their result is based on entropy inequalities which are derived under restrictive assumptions on either the flux function or the numerical fluxes. Moreover, they assume that the spatial grid satisfies a standard regularity assumption. Using instead entropy inequalities derived i...

In the context buffer models fed by independent on-off fluid sources, we explore conditions under which “determinism minimizes the stationary backlog.” These comparison results are couched in terms of the convex ordering for distributions. We show that increased variability in the on-duration rv results in greater variability of the corresponding backlog. While it appears that in general increa...

A methodology for the gridding and upscaling of geological systems characterized by channeling is presented. The overall approach entails the use of a flow-based gridding procedure for the generation of variably refined grids capable of resolving the channel geometry, a specialized full-tensor upscaling method to capture the effects of permeability connectivity, and the use of a fluxcontinuous ...

Recent works have demonstrated the experimental feasibility of real-time gene expression control based on deterministic controllers. By taking control of the level of intracellular proteins, one can probe single-cell dynamics with unprecedented flexibility. However, single-cell dynamics are stochastic in nature, and a control framework explicitly accounting for this variability is presently lac...

The representation of visual objects in short-term memory has been shown to be related to increased gamma-band activity in the electroencephalogram. Using a similar paradigm, we investigated oscillatory magnetoencephalographic activity in human subjects during a delayed matching-to-sample task requiring working memory of auditory spatial information. The memory task involved same-different judg...

I will discuss the notion of time and spatial finiteness from the perspective of observational cosmology. Our observed universe is well described at early times by small fluctuations in the spatial gravitational field, distributed homogeneously and isotropically on an otherwise smooth background spacetime. The dominant paradigm for an even earlier phase of the evolution of our universe typicall...

Abstract In this work we show how the existence of long term variability in Variable Bit Rate (VBR) video traffic imposes the need of bandwidth renegotiation. In particular, two simple scenarios with a fixed renegotiation interval are considered. Using a real MPEG trace the renegotiation scheme is evaluated to prove its benefits in terms of bandwidth gain and quality of service. The problem of ...

Automated left ventricle (LV) boundary delineation from left ventriculograms has been studied for decades. Unfortunately, no methods in terms of the accuracy about volume and ejection fraction have ever been reported. A new knowledge based multi-stage method to automatically delineate the LV boundary at end diastole and end systole is discussed in this paper. It has a mean absolute boundary err...

BEYOND THE DVH --SPATIAL AND BIOLOGICAL RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING by BO ZHAO August 2010 Advisor: Dr. Jay Burmeister Co-Advisor: Dr. Michael C. Joiner Major: Medical Physics Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Purpose: Both spatial and biological information are necessary in order to perform true optimization of a treatment plan and for predicting clinical outcome. The goal of this work is to de...