The identification of the second of two targets presented in close succession is often impaired--a phenomenon referred to as the attentional blink. Extending earlier work (Di Lollo, Kawahara, Ghorashi, and Enns, in Psychological Research 69:191-200, 2005), the present study shows that increasing the number of targets in the stream can lead to remarkable improvements as long as there are no inte...

We present improvements to the refinement stage of YANGsaf[1] (Yet ANother Glottal source analysis framework), a recently published F0 estimation algorithm by Kawahara et al., for noisy/breathy speech signals. The baseline system, based on time-warping and weighted average of multi-band instantaneous frequency estimates, is still sensitive to additive noise when none of the harmonic provide rel...

Title: Cost-effectiveness analysis of the introduction of S-1 therapy for first-line metastatic breast cancer treatment in Japan: results from the randomized phase III SELECT BC trial Authors: Takeru Shiroiwa ([email protected]) Takashi Fukuda ([email protected]) Kojiro Shimozuma ([email protected]) Mitsuko Mouri ([email protected]) Yasuhiro Hagiwara ([email protected]...

kinase II enhances adipogenesis Michio Noguchi, Kiminori Hosoda*, Junji Fujikura, Muneya Fujimoto, Hiroshi Iwakura, Tsutomu Tomita, Takako Ishii, Naoki Arai, Masakazu Hirata, Ken Ebihara, Hiroaki Masuzaki, Hiroshi Itoh, Shuh Narumiya, and Kazuwa Nakao From the Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan and Department of Pharm...

The voice conversion algorithm based on the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) has also been proposed by Stylianou et al. In this algorithm, the acoustic space of a speaker is represented continuously. In this paper, we apply this GMMbased voice conversion algorithm to STRAIGHT proposed by Kawahara et al., which is recognized as a high quality vocoder. In order to evaluate this voice conversion algor...

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A large body of recent work in wall-bounded, unstratified shear flow has been dedicated to finding Exact Coherent Structures (ECS) (e.g. see the review Kawahara et al. (2012)). These are fully non-linear, invariably unstable, exact solutions which help understand how turbulence arises. The growing consensus is that the existence of these solutions is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition f...