Acoustic-to-Articulatory inversion offers new perspectives and interesting applications in the speech processing field; however, it remains an open issue. This paper presents a method to estimate the distribution of the articulatory information contained in the stop consonants’ acoustics, whose parametrization is achieved by using the wavelet packet transform. The main focus is on measuring the...

A one-player, finite, probabilistic game with perfect information can be presented as a bipartite graph. For one-player Can’t Stop, the graph is cyclic and the challenge is to determine the game-theoretical values of the positions in the cycles. In this article we prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution to one-player Can’t Stop, and give an efficient approximation algorithm to solve ...

Active network synthesis is important for circuit designer to find new circuits with desired performance. In this paper, a method of Tow-Thomas (TT) Bi-quad band-pass filter circuit generation methods is proposed using nullor representation of the operational amplifier (OPA), and a method for synthesizing active band-stop filters is presented, both of which start from voltage transfer function ...

BACKGROUND The Respiration Activity Monitoring System (RAMOS) is an established device to measure on-line the oxygen transfer rate (OTR), thereby, yielding relevant information about metabolic activities of microorganisms and cells during shake flask fermentations. For very fast-growing microbes, however, the RAMOS technique provides too few data points for the OTR. Thus, this current study pre...

Heterogeneous DNA sequences can be partitioned into homogeneous domains that are comprised of the four nucleotides A, C, G, and T and the stop codons. Recursively, we apply a new entropic segmentation method on DNA sequences using Jensen-Shannon and Jensen-Rényi divergences in order to find the borders between coding and noncoding DNA regions. We have chosen 12and 18-symbol alphabets that captu...

We propose a new method of automatically creating nonuniform context-dependent HMM topologies by using the Minimum Description Length (MDL) criterion. Phonetic decision tree clustering is widely used, based on the Maximum Likelihood (ML) criterion, and creates only contextual variations. However, it also needs to empirically predetermine control parameters for use as stop criteria, for example,...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of disengagement beliefs in smoking cessation. The association of disengagement beliefs with forward transition through the transtheoretical stages of change and self-reported quitting were examined, with and without adjusting for processes of change. METHODS A longitudinal survey was conducted among Dutch smokers, resulting ...

OBJECTIVE To replicate findings that risk-minimizing and self-exempting beliefs lower quit intentions, and to extend this by testing their capacity to prospectively predict smoking cessation. METHOD 13,324 adult (> or =18 years) cigarette smokers from the USA, Canada, UK, and Australia from one of the first three waves (2002-2004) of the International Tobacco Control 4-Country survey were emp...