A voicing feature is used in concatenation to MFCC features to increase the performance of digit recognition at both low and high SNRs. The problem of noise robust extraction of the voicing feature is solved by using the glottal electromagnetic sensor (GEMS). The GEMS device provides reliable voicing information at all SNRs and noise environments. It is shown that although the voicing feature i...

Real-time monitoring of water quality for sewer system is required for efficient sewer network design because it provides information on the precise loading of pollutant to wastewater treatment facilities and the impact of loading on receiving water. In this study, synchronous fluorescence spectra and its first derivatives were investigated using a number of wastewater samples collected in sewe...

We investigated the effectiveness of Escherichia coli community fingerprinting for identifying fecal pollution sources impacting a recreational beach. E. coli in water collected from the beach, nearby creek and storm sewer outfall were enumerated using membrane filtration, while E. coli communities were characterized following polymerase chain reaction analysis and denaturing gradient gel elect...

All the parts of an urban drainage system, i.e. the sewer system, the waste water treatment plant (WWTP) and the river, should be integrated into one single model to assess the performance of the overall system and for the development of design and control strategies assisting in its sustainable and cost effective management. Existing models for the individual components of the system have to b...

Sewer systems are considered as complex large-scale systems that traditionally collect and transport stormwater and sanitary sewage out from urban areas. Each subsystem is in itself composed of a large number of elements with time-varying behavior, exhibiting several operating modes and subject to changes due to external conditions and operational constraints. Sewer systems are mainly operated ...

A large number of human diseases are related to poor access to water and sewer systems, inadequate solid waste management and deficient storm water drainage. The goal of this study was to formulate environmental sanitation indicators and classify sanitation conditions in specific sewer basins and their respective neighborhoods. The database used contains information on the following sanitation ...

We will demonstrate the GEMS system for automated development and evaluation of high-quality cancer diagnostic models and biomarker discovery from microarray gene expression data. The development of GEMS was informed by the results of an extensive algorithmic evaluation using 11 microarray datasets. The system was further evaluated in two cross-dataset applications and using 5 microarray datase...

Sewer flooding incidents in the UK are being increasingly associated with the presence of blockages. Blockages are difficult to deal with as although there are locations where they are more likely to occur, they do occur intermittently. In order to manage sewer blockage pro-actively sewer managers need to be able to identify the location of blockages promptly. Traditional closed-circuit televis...

Amorphous silicates containing abundant nano-inclusions have been reported in the Paris CM chondrite (Leroux et al., 2015). They chemical and morphological similarities to glass with embedded metal sulfides (GEMS) found interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) micrometeorites believed originate from comets. We used scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscop...