The effects of loudspeaker azimuth and reference microphone location on probe tube microphone measures were assessed. The real ear unaided response (REUR), real ear aided response (REAR), and real ear insertion response (REIR) were obtained on a KEMAR. Aided measures were obtained with both a behind-the-ear and an in-the-ear hearing aid. All three measurements were affected by changes in the lo...

Speech recorded from a throat microphone is robust to the surrounding noise, but sounds unnatural unlike the speech recorded from a close-speaking microphone. This paper addresses the issue of improving the perceptual quality of the throat microphone speech by mapping the speech spectra from the throat microphone to the close-speaking microphone. A neural network model is used to capture the sp...

For more than two decades, intensive worldwide MEMS research and development have led to widespread applications of MEMS-based devices in consumer, industrial, and military products. Harnessing of MEMS technology enabled the birth of pressure sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, print heads, optical switches for rapid communications and, recently, the bio-chips for life science applications. Su...

BACKGROUND An often-used tool to measure adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS), an electronic pill-cap that registers date and time of pill-bottle openings. Despite its strengths, MEMS-data can be compromised by inaccurate use and acceptability problems due to its design. These barriers remain, however, to be investigated in resource-limited ...

in this paper, an adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (anfis) based control is proposed for the tracking of a micro-electro mechanical systems (mems) gyroscope sensor. the anfis is used to train parameters of the controller for tracking a desired trajectory. numerical simulations for a mems gyroscope are looked into to check the effectiveness of the anfis control scheme. it proves that the sy...

In this paper we develop a numerical procedure using finite element and augmented Lagrangian meth-ods that simulates electro-mechanical pull-in states of both cantilever and fixed beams in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switches. We devise the augmented Lagrangian methods for the well-known Euler-Bernoulli beam equation which also takes into consideration of the fringing effect of electr...