In this paper, utilization of clustering algorithms for data fusion in decision level is proposed. The results of automatic isolated word recognition, which are derived from speech spectrograph and Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) analysis, are combined with each other by using fuzzy clustering algorithms, especially fuzzy k-means and fuzzy vector quantization. Experimental results show that the ...

Abstract Herein, a high strain of ∼0.3% with small hysteresis 43% is achieved at low electric field 4 kV/mm in the highly <001>-textured 0.97(0.76Bi 0.5 Na TiO 3 −0.24SrTiO )−0.03NaNbO (BNT−ST−0.03NN) ceramics an ergodic relaxor (ER) state, leading to large normalized ( d 33 *) 720 pm/V. The introduction NN templates into BNT−ST induces grain orientation growth and enhances ergodicity. BN...

Three strains of facultatively anaerobic thermotolerant and moderately halophilic bacteria were isolated from two Jordanian hot spring locations. The novel Bacillus strains were short rods, Gram-positive, motile and spore formers. The strains were capable of anaerobic (but not aerobic) growth at 63C, moderately halophilic, able to grow at NaCl concentration range of 12 15 % and at temperatures ...

BACKGROUND Antibodies (Abs) produced during HIV-1 infection rarely neutralize a broad range of viral isolates; only eight broadly-neutralizing (bNt) monoclonal (M)Abs have been isolated. Yet, to be effective, an HIV-1 vaccine may have to elicit the essential features of these MAbs. The V genes of all of these bNt MAbs are highly somatically mutated, and the V(H) genes of five of them encode a l...