In this work we address the problem of single-channel speech enhancement when the speech is corrupted by additive noise. The model presented here, called the Modified Phase Opponency (MPO) model, is based on the auditory PO model, proposed by Carney et. al., for detection of tones in noise. The PO model includes a physiologically realistic mechanism for processing the information in neural disc...

This study compared oxygen pressures (Po(2)), measured by oxygen-dependent quenching of phosphorescence, in the intravascular (blood plasma) space in the muscle with those in the interstitial (pericellular) space. Our hypothesis was that the capillary wall would not significantly impede oxygen diffusion from the blood plasma to the pericellular space. A new near-infrared oxygen sensitive probe,...

A novel poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-based block copolymer possessing a 4-vinylbenzylphosphonate repeating unit in another segment (PEG-block-poly(4-vinylbenzylphosphonate)) (PEG-b-PVBP) was designed and successfully synthesized. As a control, an end-functionalized PEG possessing a mono-phosphonate group (PEG-PO(3)H(2)) was also synthesized. The surface of near-infrared (NIR) phosphors (i.e., yt...

The catalytic performances over propylene epoxidation with H2 and O2 (HOPO process) are significantly affected by the properties (e.g., surface properties, Ti coordination, morphology) of titanosilicate zeolite. Introducing urea into zeolite synthesis is a simple convenient method to modify these Uncalcined pore-blocked titanium silicalite-1 (TS-1, i.e., TS-1-B) lower dosage possesses more defe...

In this paper, we investigate po-purity using finitely presented S-posets, and give some equivalent conditions under which an S-poset is absolutely po-pure. We also introduce strongly finitely presented S-posets to characterize absolutely pure S-posets. Similar to the acts, every finitely presented cyclic S-posets is isomorphic to a factor S-poset of a pomonoid S by a finitely generated right con...

Pyridoxal-PO* binds to pepsinogen in a reaction in which the stoichiometry is highly dependent on the conformation of the protein. When pepsinogen is in its native conformation, pyridoxal-PO4 forms Schiff bases with the (r-NH2 group of Leul and the e-NH2 group of LysZS8. When the protein is mildly denatured and assumes a more extended conformation, pyridoxal-PO4 can react with the t-NH2 groups ...

In this paper we introduce a class of partially ordered sets, called differential posets, with many remarkable combinatorial and algebraic properties. (Terminology from lattice theory and the theory of partially ordered sets not explained here may be found in [St6].) The combinatorial properties of differential posets are concerned with the counting of saturated chains Xl < x2 < ... < x k or of...