Response surface methods via the first or second order models are important in manufacturing processes. This study, however, proposes different structured mechanisms of the vertical transportation systems or VTS embedded on a shuffled frog leaping-based approach. There are three VTS scenarios, a motion reaching a normal operating velocity, and both reaching and not reaching transitional motion....

Introduction Activation mapping of ventricular tachycardia (VT) is rarely accomplished owing to limited temporal and spatial resolution, unacceptably long mapping time, and hemodynamic instability. Entrainment mapping is a reasonable approach to identify targets for ablation in patients with tolerated postinfarction reentrant VTs; however, it often does not allow delineation of the entire VT ci...

This paper addresses the problem of speaker verification in the presence of additive noise. We propose a fast implementation of Psychoacoustic Model Compensation (Psy-Comp) scheme for static features along with model domain mean and variance normalization for robust speaker recognition in noisy conditions. The proposed algorithms are validated through experiments on noise corrupted NIST-2000 sp...

In a traditional HMM compensation approach to robust speech recognition that uses Vector Taylor Series (VTS) approximation of an explicit model of environmental distortions, the set of generic HMMs are typically trained from “clean” speech only. In this paper, we present a maximum likelihood approach to training generic HMMs from both “clean” and “corrupted” speech based on the concept of irrel...

I review the NLO QCD calculations of the branching ratio for B → Xsγ in the SM. Including the leading electromagnetic corrections, one obtaines BR(B → Xsγ) = (3.32±0.30)×10−4. Confronting theory with the newest data, an updated value for |Vts| is obtained: |Vts| = 0.037±0.007. Theoretical progress on the photon energy spectrum is also discussed. The inclusive FCNC semileptonic decays in the SM ...

Ventricular tachycardias (VTs) occurring after prior myocardial infarction are usually caused by reentrant circuits formed by surviving myocardial bundles. Although part of the reentrant circuits may be located in the midmyocardium or epicardium, most of the VTs can be safely and successfully ablated by endocardial ablation targeting the late potentials/local abnormal ventricular activation, wh...

We propose a new method to extract |Vtd| |Vts| from the ratio of the decay distributions dR ds ≡ dB ds [B → Xdll]/ ds [B → Xsll ]. This ratio depends only on the KM ratio |Vtd| |Vts| with very little theoretical uncertainties, if dilepton invariant mass-squared s is away from the peaks of the possible resonance states, J/ψ, ψ′, and etc. We also give a detailed analytical and numerical analysis ...

BACKGROUND Exercise-related ventricular tachycardia (VT) and high burden of premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are common in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy. We hypothesized that VT in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy shows a high degree of association with the PVC at baseline. METHODS AND RESULTS The study population included 16 conse...

Estimating parameters for models of neurons requires a quantitative comparison between the model output and empirical data. The present study compares three error functions: voltage time-series (VTS), cumulative voltage integrals (CVI), and phase histograms (PH). In two test cases, predefined models were used to produce target data and to compare the efficacy of the three error functions when t...

We examine the possibility for precise determination of |Vtd| and/or |Vtd/Vts| from the ratios of exclusive decays, (B → ρl+l−)/(B → K∗l+l−) and (B → πl+l−)/(B → Kl+l−). We show that the ratio |Vtd/Vts| can be extracted experimentally with a small theoretical uncertainty from SU(3) breaking effects and hadronic form–factors, if we appropriately constrain kinematical regions of q2. We also give ...