OBJECTIVE To develop, standardize, and partly validate a developmental scale for toddlers (age, 1.6 to 3 years) attending anganwadis in India. METHODS After the development of the 12-item Developmental Assessment Tool for Anganwadis (DATA), its internal consistency, face validity, content validity and construct validity were studied in 100 toddlers in anganwadis and were found to be appropria...

An algorithm is proposed for estimating the band aperiodicity of speech signals, where “aperiodicity” is defined as the power ratio between the speech signal and the aperiodic component of the signal. Since this power ratio depends on the frequency band, the aperiodicity should be given for several frequency bands. The proposed D4C (Definitive Decomposition Derived Dirt-Cheap) estimator is base...

In this paper, a novel pointing device is proposed which utilizes the deformation of the fingerprint. When the fingertip is pressed and slid slightly on a rigid plate, a partial slip, called “incipient slip”, occurs on the contact surface. Since the deformation around the center of the contact surface is small, the center of the fingerprint can be detected during the incipient slip. The Group D...

In this paper, we consider the problem for singular systems with state delay. We mainly focus on the problems of absolute delay-dependent stability using the Lyapunov function method and give sufficient conditions in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI). A numerical example is given to illustrate the application of the proposed method. References [1] Izumi Masubuchi, ∞ H control for descript...

Nowadays, dispersive mirrors are able to cover the wavelength range of 4.5 optical octaves and can be used from 220 nm up to 4500 nm. Various design approaches to dispersive mirrors in visible and near IR are briefly discussed. We consider in more detail two dispersive mirrors representing extreme cases. The first one is a mirror working in the range of 290−360 nm and providing group delay dis...

Analogue first, second and high-order all-pass active filters in the current mode, with constant group delay and magnitude responses, are presented in this paper. These filters are based on a modification of the multi-loop feedback canonical structures using signal flow graphs. Implementations by multi-output transconductors, namely classical OTAs and novel CDTAs are given.

A lot of methods for analog filter group delay optimization have been developed. In the article an original approach to the evaluation of the optimization methods is presented. Our approach is based on the original representation of the optimization results in a polar space. In that space there are very interesting spirals indicating the optimization efficiency directly and clearly. This approa...

The influence of the dispersion of glass seams only relevant for femtosecond lasers with a pulse length below 100 fs. This commonly used approximation holds only for visible and IR light. For UV fs-laser Z. Bor stated out that due to the large dispersion in the UV regime fs-pulses with a duration of a few hundred femtoseconds are significantly affected in lenses by the group delay [1]. When a p...

Feature extraction and selection for continuous speech recognition is a complex task. State of the art speech recognition systems use features that are derived by ignoring the Fourier transform phase. In our earlier studies we have shown the efficacy of The Modified Group Delay Feature (MODGDF) derived from the Fourier transform phase for phoneme, syllable and speaker recognition. In this paper...