This paper presents the Modi ed Multiband Excitation Model used for speech coding. In many MBE model coders, speech quality is degraded when incorrect voicing decisions are made, particularly for high-pitched female speakers. The MMBE addresses this issue with a modi ed voiced/unvoiced decision algorithm and a more robust pitch estimate. The listening quality of speech produced using the MMBE m...

In this paper we apply the Weighted Acoustic Modeling (WAM) technique to the recognition of speech coded by the full-rate GSM codec or the FS-1016 CELP codec employing various estimates of instantaneous distortion. In the WAM method, separate hidden Markov models are developed for regions of speech that exhibit low levels of codec-induced distortion and for regions with higher levels of such di...

CONCLUSION Daily intake of 480 mg of BNO 1016 for 15 days is an effective treatment in acute viral rhinosinusitis. OBJECTIVES The pooled efficacy data of two similar randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials were analyzed. Safety was evaluated on the basis of the individual trials. METHODS The efficacy analysis was based on 589 patients. Treatment was performed orally with either 3 × 16...

During the second FORMAT (FORMaldehyde as A Tracer of oxidation in the troposphere) campaign in 2003 the airborne multi-axis DOAS instrument (AMAXDOAS) performed scattered-light spectroscopic measurements of SO2 over the city of Mantova and the power plant Porto Tolle, both situated in the Po-valley, Northern Italy. The SO2 vertical columns and emission flux were derived from two days of measur...

We report time resolved measurements of spin and carrier relaxation in InAs films with carrier densities of 1.3 1016 and 1.6 1016 cm−3 grown on 001 and 111 GaAs, respectively. We used standard pump-probe and magneto-optical Kerr effect spectroscopy at different excitation wavelengths, power densities, and temperatures. We observed sensitivity of carrier and spin relaxation time to the photoindu...

10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000309 © 2017 pISSN 1758-2008 eISSN 1758-2016 Neuropsychiatry (London) (2017) 7(6), 1016–1019 1016 1Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Pudong New area People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China; 2Department of Traditional Medicine, Shanghai Pudong New area People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China †Author for correspondence: Ping Zheng, Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Pudong Ne...

In this work we propose the application of an enhanced radiation damage model based on the introduction of deep level traps / recombination centers suitable for device level numerical simulation of silicon detectors at very high fluences (e.g. 2.0 × 1016 1 MeV equivalent neutrons/cm2). We present the comparison between simulation results and experimental data for p-type substrate structures in ...