Ubiquitous speech processing involves listening to speech in ecological environments where noise is often present. The current study investigates the neural mechanisms involved in perceiving speech in noise using a sparse sampling fMRI method. Subjects were asked to match auditorily presented words with picture choices. The auditory stimuli were either presented in quiet or embedded in multi-ta...

Received signal strength indicator plays a very important role in many WLAN applications. However wireless signal strength will be greatly affected by noise and disturbance. It is critical to remove the abnormal data in order to provide a reliable estimation of the received signal strength indicator. Conventional mean value based approaches require large amount of data which would lead to unrel...

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding noise can improve welfare. With quadratic preferences and a uniform type distribution, welfare can be raised for almost every bias level by introducing a sufficiently small amount of noise. Furthermore, there exists a level of noise that makes it possible to achieve the best pay...

Sounds are very important in our daily life with a twofold attitude for any citizen. In one hand, when music, sounds are considered as enhancing the quality of life, but in the other hand, traffic noise deteriorates the quality of life. Due to those contradictory characteristics, the new concept of soundscape tries to combine both positive and negative aspects of the auditory environment. Prese...

background and aim:  the stress resulting from premature delivery and the related neonatal care induces psychological and physical pressure on the mothers, and adversely affects their feeling of comfort. it seems that spiritual care as a sort of communication with a higher power (god) can bring peace to the stressed mothers, and prevent anxiety. therefore, this study was designed to evaluate th...

Vegetation moderates a microclimate by casting shadows, increasing light reflection, evaporation and perspiration; and correcting wind patterns. The present study aims to investigate the microclimatic role of vegetated surfaces and bodies in improving thermal comfort in outdoor spaces between buildings. The main research question is which of the green system modes, that is, horizontal vegetatio...

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding noise can improve welfare. With quadratic preferences and a uniform type distribution, welfare can be raised for almost every bias level by introducing a sufficiently small amount of noise. Furthermore, there exists a level of noise that makes it possible to achieve the best pay...