This study determined whether developmental and adult 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) exposures in rats have interactive effects on body temperature, learning, other behaviors, and monoamine concentrations in the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and striatum. Learning was assessed in the Cincinnati water maze (CWM), Morris water maze (MWM), and novel object recognition (NOR). On acquisi...

Article history: Received 20 April 2016 Received in revised form 25 October 2016 Accepted 6 November 2016 Available online xxxx Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in North America, is impaired by excess nutrient discharges, especially from urban and agricultural land.Watershed simulationmodels have provided key insights to understanding land-towater connections, but rarely are these models app...

This paper proposes a text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system based on a combined model consisting of the Composite Wavelet Model (CWM) and the Hidden Markov Model (HMM). Conventional HMM-based TTS systems using cepstral features tend to produce over-smoothed spectra, which often result in muffled and buzzy synthesized speech. This is simply caused by the averaging of spectra associated with each...

The importance of metadata has been broadly referred in the last years, mainly in the field of data warehousing and decision support systems. Contemporarily, in the adjacent field of data quality, several approaches and tools have been set out for the purpose of data profiling and cleaning. However, little effort has been made in order to formally specify metrics and techniques for data quality...

Due to the increasing costs of construction waste disposal, an accurate estimation of the amount of construction waste is a key factor in a project’s success. Korea has been burdened by increasing construction waste as a consequence of the growing number of construction projects and a lack of construction waste management (CWM) strategies. One of the problems associated with predicting the amou...