From the fact that Japanese listeners have difficulty perceiving English fricative sounds in natural speech, it is natural to expect that such listeners would have even more difficulty perceiving fricatives in degraded speech. This research tests the ability of 72 Japanese university students to identify fricatives in English words presented in cell phone speech simulated with the AMR-NB codec....

determination of gross auditory perceptibility of value to clinicians, generally. It is not demanded of the clinical psychologist that he compete with the aurist, but if a correct diagnosis is to be made he must establish the degree of auditory perceptibility3 and recognize the handicaps of reduced auditory acuity to effect necessary school adjustments and to stress the need for medical care. T...

Electronic cash; Payment systems; Untraceable; Date attachable. Abstract Eslami and Talebi (2011) [25] proposed an untraceable electronic cash scheme and claimed that their scheme protects the anonymity of customers, detects the identity of double spenders and provides the date attachability of coins to manage the bank database. In this paper, illustrating Eslami and Talebi’s scheme, as one of ...

Electronic voting is a form of that often used for elections using electronic systems. However, at the time implementation there was lot fraud only intended one parties. Therefore, Web-Based Muhammadiyah Association E-Voting Application created Laravel Framework. There no need to use nails because DPT (Permanent Voters List) needs touch screen vote elected candidate. This application uses RFID ...

The increasing data volumes impose unprecedented challenges to traditional mining in preprocessing, learning, and analyzing, it has attracted much attention designing efficient compressing, indexing searching methods recently. Inspired by locally sensitive hashing (LSH), divide-and-conquer strategy, double-voting mechanism, we proposed an iterative instance selection algorithm, which needs run ...

To proposing a voting model for groups with members of unequal power and proficiency, we present some models for rank ordering efficient candidates, by extending the ideas of some authors. Then, we propose a new methodology to rank the ranking models for the performance indices of only DEA efficient candidates based on a classical voting model. Also, an approach for combining the results obtain...