This research examines the validity of utilising a 2D multiplane FDTD acoustic model to simulate low frequency sound propagation as part of a hybrid room impulse response (RIR) synthesis system. Analytic results, pertaining to the comparison of simulated low frequency multiplane RIRs with both practical RIR measurements and 3D FDTD simulated RIRs, demonstrate that a good level of accuracy is at...

The state of the art of the field of protein structure prediction is reviewed. The strengths and weaknesses of the three general approaches, comparative modelling, threading and template-freemodelling, are discussed, and an overview of the results of the critical assessment of structure prediction (CASP) protein structure prediction experiments are summarized. The implications for protein struc...

Reasoning with fuzzy rule-based models has been widely applied to perform various real world classification tasks. The main advantage of this approach is that it supports inferences in the way people think and make judgements. However, in order to gain high classification accuracy, transparency and interpretability of such models has often been ignored. To counter against this limitation, this ...

This study explores a new dataset in order to present the comparative determinants of growth quality in 93 developing countries for the period 1990-2011. We employ both cross-sectional and panel estimation techniques with contemporary and non-contemporary specifications. The determinants are quite heterogeneous in significance and magnitude with substantial inclinations to specifications and es...

This work presents a comparative study of the usage of compositional and annotational approaches in the modularization of software process lines. In our comparative study, an Open-UP based software process line extracted from three existing projects are modelled and implemented using the compositional and annotative approaches with the main aim to address a systematic variability management and...