The term auditory scene analysis (ASA) refers to the ability of human listeners to form perceptual representations of the constituent sources in an acoustic mixture, as in the well-known ‘cocktail party’ effect. Accordingly, computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) is the field of study which attempts to replicate ASA in machines. Some CASA systems are closely modelled on the known stages o...

The aim of this study was to determine the extent of metal pollutions and the identification of their major sources in the vicinity of the Sangan iron mine occurring in NE Iran. Soil samples were collected from the vicinity of the mine site and analyzed for heavy metals. In addition, the chemical speciation of these metals was investigated by means of the sequential extraction procedure. The st...

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...

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 effect of sequential extraction of trace metals on sulfur (S) speciation in anoxic sludge samples from two lab-scale biogas reactors augmented with Fe was investigated. Analyses of sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption near edge structure (S XANES) spectroscopy and acid volatile sulfide (AVS) were conducted on the residues from each step of the sequential extraction. The S speciation in sludge sam...

background and purpose: the heavy metal pollution and its fractionations in the surface sediments of darreh-morad beyg river, hamedan city were monitored for cd, cr, cu, fe, ni, pb, and zn in 2014.   materials and methods: totally 30 surface sediment samples were taken from 10 stations with three replicates. the samples subjected to bulk digestion and chemical partitioning. the concentrations o...

We describe a parallel solution to the problem of resolving non-ordinary singularities of a plane algebraic curve. The original sequential program is implemented in the software library CASA on top of the computer algebra system Maple. The new parallel version is based on Distributed Maple, a distributed programming extension written in Java. We evaluate the performance of the program in a clus...

This paper introduces a novel technique for sequential blind extraction of singularly mixed sources. First, a neural-network model and an adaptive algorithm for single-source blind extraction are introduced. Next, extractability analysis is presented for singular mixing matrix, and two sets of necessary and sufficient extractability conditions are derived. The adaptive algorithm and neural-netw...

this study was carried out to 1. determine spatial variations of heavy metal deposition in agricultural soils of two rural communities (ouledbouaicha and tazakourte) of about 5790 ha in a mining area near marrakech city in morocco; 2. to assess the extent of metallic pollution generated by the mining activity and; 3. to identify the key mechanism responsible for this contamination and its relat...

biomedical datasets usually include a large number of features relative to the number of samples. however, some data dimensions may be less relevant or even irrelevant to the output class. selection of an optimal subset of features is critical, not only to reduce the processing cost but also to improve the classification results. to this end, this paper presents a hybrid method of filter and wr...