Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), active and/or passive, can be densely deployed in complex environments to significantly enhance wireless network coverage for both information transfer (WIT) and power (WPT). In this letter, we study the downlink WIT/WPT from a multi-antenna base station single-antenna user over multi-active/passive IRS (AIRS/PIRS)-enabled link. particular, derive locatio...

This paper describes WIT, a toolkit for building spoken dialogue systems. WIT features an incremental understanding mechanism that enables robust utterance understanding and realtime responses. WIT’s ability to compile domain-dependent system specifications into internal knowledge sources makes building spoken dialogue systems much easier than it is from scratch.

Authors Davide Raimondo, Peter Hokayem, Stephan Huck, John Lygeros, Manfred Morari, ETH Alireza Farhadi, Carlos Canudas de Wit, INRIA Sandro Zampieri, Luca Schenato, Angelo Cenedese, UNIPD Paul Smyth, Jacek Czyz, VICON Giambattista Gennari, VIDEOTEC Report Version V2 Doc ID Code ETH-D06.01-28FEB2011 Contract Start Date 01/SEP/2008 Duration 41 months Project Coordinator : Carlos CANUDAS DE WIT, ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate application of diode laser in laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN), and to question this technique in terms of ease of tumor excision and reduction of warm ischemia time (WIT). BACKGROUND DATA LPN is the standard operative method for small renal masses. The benefits of LPN are numerous, including preserving renal function and prolonging overal...