presence of the flow mask affects voice quality. Microphone and flow recordings were inverse filtered and were compared to examine the possible effects of the flow mask. Closing quotient (ClQ), open quotient (OQ) and the amplitude difference between the first and second harmonics (H1-H2) were the parameters used to characterise the inverse filtered signals. The presence of the flow mask used fo...

Perceptual fluctuations experienced during motion-induced blindness (MIB) have been characterized as the result of a competition between representations of the moving mask and stationary (or slowly moving) targets (Bonneh, Cooperman, & Sagi, 2001). While there is evidence to support a local influence of the mask on target disappearance, what is not yet clear is whether the global properties of ...

Speech under face cover constitute a case that is increasingly met by forensic speech experts. Wearing face cover mostly happens when an individual strives to conceal his or her identity. Based on the material of face cover and the level of contact with speech production organs, speech production becomes affected by face mask and a part of speech energy gets absorbed in the mask. There has been...

This contribution proposes for Recommendation G.812 (1) a holdover specification for Clock Type II that is consistent with the current specification of 10 per day and is not broken into aging, temperature, and initial offset components and (2) a modification to the output wander TDEV mask, to apply only to Types II and III, to make the mask consistent with the respective wander generation TDEV ...

Phishing, a new-rise identity fraud of this century has already caused huge financial loss and social disorder. This paper provides an overview of the evolution and forecasted trend of phishing activities with detailed analysis on common phishing features, proliferation channels, relevant anti-phishing measures, related legislation, and an anti-phishing framework from the perspective of social ...

Image quality models usually include a mechanism whereby artifacts are masked by the image acting as a background. Scientific study of visual masking has followed two traditions: contrast masking and noise masking, depending primarily on whether the mask is deterministic or random. In the former tradition, masking is explained by a decrease in the effective gain of the early visual system. In t...

abstract We give a formula for the duals of the mask associated with trivariate box spline functions. We show how to construct trivariate nonseparable compactly supported biorthogonal wavelets associated with box spline functions. The biorthogonal wavelets may have arbitrarily high regularities.

The paper describes a method for binary 2D and 3D object methamorphosis using a normalized morphological interpolation function and a mask. Comparing with the existing methods the proposed one has two important advantages: the normalization of the interpolation function and the new formulation of the interpolator. The first one allows obtaining steady and smooth transfomation of the area (volum...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of two different immobilization methods in patient positioning in cranial radiotherapy. The six-dimensional (6D) target localization accuracy of using a dedicated stereotactic mask was compared with that of a conventional head mask by the ExacTrac system. Material and Methods: ...