A simple new method to recover details in a spectral envelope is proposed based on a recently introduced speech analysis, modification and resynthesis framework called TANDEMSTRAIGHT. Spectral envelope recovery of voiced sounds is a discrete-to-analog conversion in the frequency domain. However, there is a fundamental problem because the spatial frequency contents of vocal tract functions gener...

 Abstract Background: Rehabilitation of facial paralysis is one of the greatest challenges faced by reconstructive surgeons today. The traditional method for treatment of patients with facial palsy is the two-stage free gracilis flap which has a long latency period of between the two stages of surgery. Methods: In this paper, we prospectively compared the results of the one-stage gracilis flap ...

A technique is presented that permits fast view-reconstruction of individual objects. This method improves a previous approach to solve the problem of approximated view reconstruction by combining clustering of polygons with visibility bitfields to determine visibility for novel viewpoints. The technique consists of three steps: patch creation, spherical sampling, and rendering. In the first st...

Reliable estimates of abundance are needed to assess consequences of proposed habitat restoration and enhancement projects on freshwater mussels in the Upper Mississippi River (UMR). Although there is general guidance on sampling techniques for population assessment of freshwater mussels, the actual performance of sampling designs can depend critically on the population density and spatial dist...

Due to the explosive growth of data in every aspect of our life, data mining algorithms often suffer from scalability issues. One effective way to tackle this problem is to employ sampling techniques. This paper introduces, ML-DS, a novel deterministic sampling algorithm for mining association rules in large datasets. Unlike most algorithms in the literature that use randomness in sampling, our...

PAUL ALAN FLYER. Finite Population Correction for Replication Estimates of Variance. (Under the direction of CHIRAYATH M. SUCHINDRAN and LESTER R. CURTIN.) For large, national surveys, stratified two stage sample designs are frequently used. In these surveys, unequal probability sampling is almost always used in the selection of first stage units. Typically, the sampling procedure does not allo...

At NTCIR-6 CLIR, Toshiba participated in the Monolingual and Bilingual IR tasks covering three topic languages (Japanese, English and Chinese) and one document language (Japanese). For Stage 1 (which is the usual ad hoc task using the new NTCIR6 topics), we submitted two DESCRIPTION runs and two TITLE runs for each topic language. Our first search strategy is Selective Sampling with Memory Rese...

We introduce a new concept of sparsity for the stochastic elliptic operator −div (a(x,ω)∇(·)), which reflects the compactness of its inverse operator in the stochastic direction and allows for spatially heterogeneous stochastic structure. This new concept of sparsity motivates a heterogeneous stochastic finite element method (HSFEM) framework for linear elliptic equations, which discretizes the...

At NTCIR-6 CLIR, Toshiba participated in the Monolingual and Bilingual IR tasks covering three topic languages (Japanese, English and Chinese) and one document language (Japanese). For Stage 1 (which is the usual ad hoc task using the new NTCIR6 topics), we submitted two DESCRIPTION runs and two TITLE runs for each topic language. Our first search strategy is Selective Sampling with Memory Rese...