Annotated speech corpora are indispensable to various areas of speech research. In this paper, we present a novel discriminative training approach for HMM-based automatic phonetic segmentation. The objective of the proposed minimum boundary error (MBE) discriminative training approach is to minimize the expected boundary errors over a set of phonetic alignments represented as a phonetic lattice...

In this paper, we address two ways of difference expansion based reversible DNA watermarking using noncoding DNA sequence. Unlike image data, the reversible DNA watermarking should consider the string structure of a DNA sequence, the organism functionality, the perfect recovery, and the high embedding capacity. We convert the string sequence of four characters in noncoding region to the decimal...

Model Based Engineering aims to improve efficiency and effectiveness of software engineering. Success in industrial practice of MBE does not only depend on the modeling languages and constructive or analytical approaches, like code generation or model checking. It is also heavily influenced by the quality and, particularly, usability of the selected tools. In this position paper, we discuss cha...

Annotated speech corpora are indispensable to various areas of speech research. In this paper, we present a novel discriminative training approach for HMM-based automatic phonetic segmentation. The objective of the proposed minimum boundary error (MBE) discriminative training approach is to minimize the expected boundary errors over a set of phonetic alignments represented as a phonetic lattice...

Strong broad photoluminescence similar to that observed in some materials grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) has been observed in Si/Si, -,Ge,/Si quantum wells grown by chemical vapor deposition. As grown, the samples exhibited SiGe band-edge phonon-resolved bound-exciton luminescence, but after being self-implanted with silicon and annealed at 600 “C, a deep broad luminescence band 80-100 m...

In this paper, we review the contributions which MBE (molecular beam epitaxy) has made to the field of GMR (giant magnetoresistance) and interlayer exchange coupling in magnetic multilayers and sandwiches. A historical overview is given and a key advantage of MBE over alternative preparation techniques is emphasized: the ability to probe in situ the growth and structure of these materials. Rece...

We present an investigation of the representation of voice source aperiodicities in the Multi-Band Excitation (MBE) speech model for the compression of narrowband speech. The MBE model is a fixed-frame based analysis-synthesis algorithm which combines harmonic and stochastic components to reconstruct speech from estimated model parameters. Pitch cycle perturbations, such as jitter and shimmer, ...

This paper introduces a growth method—suboxide molecular-beam epitaxy (S-MBE)—which enables drastic enhancement in the rates of Ga2O3 and related materials to over 1 ?m h?1 an adsorption-controlled regime, combined with excellent crystallinity. Using Ga + mixture oxygen mole fraction x(O) = 0.4 as MBE source, we overcome kinetic limits that had previously hampered by MBE. We present up 1.6 1.5 ...

A rapid expansion of supercritical solution (RESS) technology was presented for the micronization of Chinese medicinal material. Magnolia bark extract (MBE) obtained by supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO(2)) extraction technology was chosen as the experimental material. RESS process produced 4.7 microm size MBE microparticles (size distribution, 0.2-24.1 microm), which was significantly smaller...

Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) is a well-established method to grow lowdimensional structures for research applications. MBE has given many contributions to the rapid expanding research-area of nano-technology and will probably continuing doing so. The MBE equipment, dedicated for Silicon/Germanium (Si/Ge) systems, at Karlstads University (Kau) has been studied and started for the first time. In ...