In dogs and cats, computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA) was originally described almost 20 years ago. Subsequently, numerous CASA systems were validated and used for various applications in dogs and to a lesser extent in cats. CASA systems offer an accurate, rapid, objective and simultaneous assessment of different semen parameters allowing the visualization of subtle changes in sperm charact...

The stock assessment model described here is based on Sullivan et al.’s (1990) CASA model. CASA is entirely length-based with population dynamic calculations in terms of the number of individuals in each length group during each year. Age is largely irrelevant in model calculations. Unlike many other length-based stock assessment approaches, CASA is a dynamic, non-equilibrium model based on a f...

In this paper, we propose a computational auditory scene analysis (CASA)–based front–end for two–microphone speech recognition in a car environment. One of the important issues associated with CASA is the accurate estimation of mask information for target speech separation within multiple microphone noisy speech. For such a task, the time–frequency mask information is compensated through the si...

1 Department of Clinical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy 2 Unit of Endocrinology, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy 3 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, “Magna Græcia” University, Catanzaro, Italy 4 Department of Medical Pathophysiology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy 5 Research Unit of Diabetes and Endocrine Diseases, ...

Recent psychophysical studies suggest that human listeners do not segregate concurrent sounds by grouping frequency regions that have a common interaural time difference (ITD). However, such an approach is adopted by most computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) systems that use binaural cues. Here, we propose a CASA system that separates a target speech signal from a noise interferer, but ...

Computer-aided sperm analysis (CASA) technology was developed in the late 1980s for analyzing sperm movement characteristics or kinematics and has been highly successful in enabling this field of research. CASA has also been used with great success for measuring semen characteristics such as sperm concentration and proportions of progressive motility in many animal species, including wide appli...

1 In August 2003, while many Europeans were heading to the beaches to mitigate the effects of the worst heat wave on record, José Eduardo Sampaio, the CEO of Casa XXI, was faced with another kind of heat. Cartão 21, the innovative payment system of Casa XXI that he had personally conceived and subcontracted, had dramatically failed on August 6 th during the high-visibility inauguration of Alval...

One of the goals of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) is to improve storm-scale numerical weather prediction (NWP) by collecting data with a dense X-band radar network that provides high-resolution low-level coverage, and by assimilating such data into NWP models. During the first spring storm season aft...

Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) allows unlicensed wireless devices to opportunistically access unoccupied licensed spectrum bands. DSA yields efficient spectrum utilization which can greatly improve wireless networking performance. In this paper, we advocate application-awareness to effectively manage the sideeffects of DSA that can offset its benefits by adversely impacting application QoS. Simp...

As an emerging discipline, Component-Aware System Architecting (CASA) takes advantage of the composition of reusable heterogenous architectural components developed by different people, at different time. CASA can also collaborate with component-aware requirements elicitation to strengthen component-aware requirements’ claims. However, CASA does not come for free, one of many challenges facing ...