in order to the enhancement of the quality of speech corrupted by additive noise, a speech enhancement method has been put forward based on the combination of spectral subtraction and binary masking. spectral subtraction is a powerful method for removing noise from speech and binary masking provides essential elements to be used in monaural speech segregation. in the proposed combined method, f...

This report. contains fourteen papers on a wide range of current.topics and experiments in,speech research, ranging from the relationshipbetween-speecb:and reading to questions of memory and perception of speech sounds.,The following papers are included: "How Is Language Conveyed by Speech?;" "Reading, the Linguistic Process, and Linquistic_Awareness;" "Misreading:.A. Search for Causes;" "Langu...

ions and is widely used to determine the activity and concentration of hydrogen ions. Metal ion-selective electrodes, such as potassium ions and calcium ions, are also commercially available. Drug ion selective electrodes are prepared and are used to determine the concentrations of drug ions. Other applications of drug ion electrodes include studies of protein binding of drug ions, mechanisms o...

BACKGROUND To compare the corneal healing response between conventional and phototherapeutic keratectomy through a masking agent, in rabbit corneas. METHODS 24 adult rabbits underwent phototherapeutic keratectomy. Animals were divided in two groups: 12 received photoablation through a masking agent (PALM gel) and the remaining 12 received conventional phototherapeutic keratectomy of equal dep...

at the highest signal levels, the masking function for the off-frequency condition seems to become more linear. while some basilar membrane data show more linear growth at high levels, others do not. aim of the present study is to assess function of masking at high levels regarding its clinical appearance. in this experiment we evaluated the hearing thresholds of three different signals (wide-b...

metal complexes, but is useful in the case of metal complexes with low extractability. This process has thus been applied to the separation of metals, which is difficult by conventional batch extraction.1 Extraction reagents (HR) are usually consumed in amounts several hundred times those of metals (M). Complexes to be extractable into an organic solvent {MRn·(HR)m} are not always obtained usin...

the present work concerns on the investigation of the role of polyethylene glycols (pegs) as masking agent for amelioration of extraction-separation of la(iii), eu(iii) and er(iii) ions by the acidic extractant bis(2-ethylhexyl)phosphoric acid (dehpa). the studied solvent extraction system is based on the combination of chelating effect of dehpa in the organic phase on the one hand, and the bin...

Using furosemide (FU) as a model drug, we examined the wet granulation method as a way to improve the taste masking and physical characteristics of orally disintegrating tablets (ODTs). In the wet granulation method, yogurt powder (YO) was used as a corrective and maltitol (MA) was used as a binding agent. The taste masked FU tablets were prepared using the direct compression method. Microcryst...