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working regime of power plant cooling system, i.e. optimal pressure in condenser in function of power plant working regime is presented. This method is based on the estimation of working characteristic of the cooling system in global. The working characteristic of the cooling system is formed on the base of characteristics of the elements that make cooling system. The procedure and principal sc...

Corpus studies by Schuler, AbdelRahman, Miller, and Schwartz (2010), appear to support a model of comprehension taking place in a general-purpose working memory store, by providing an existence proof that a simple probabilistic sequence model over stores of up to four syntacticallycontiguous memory elements has the capacity to reconstruct phrase structure trees for over 99.9% of the sentences i...

Corpus studies by Schuler, AbdelRahman, Miller, and Schwartz (2010), appear to support a model of comprehension taking place in a general-purpose working memory store, by providing an existence proof that a simple probabilistic sequence model over stores of up to four syntacticallycontiguous memory elements has the capacity to reconstruct phrase structure trees for over 99.9% of the sentences i...

Accurate and effective voice activity detection (VAD) is a fundamental step for robust speech or speaker recognition. In this study, we proposed a hierarchical framework approach for VAD and speech enhancement. The modified Wiener filter (MWF) approach is utilized for noise reduction in the speech enhancement block. For the feature selection and voting block, several discriminating features wer...

This paper introduces the topic of " Collaborative Distance " within Distributed Collaboration as being an introduction to this Special Issue on Collaborative Working Environments 1 (CWE). It starts in discussing various related concepts, identified during an extensive literature review, on both proximity and distance in distributed collaboration. Then, a Collaborative Distance Framework (CDF) ...

We propose a new approach to commutative watermarkingencryption (CWE). A permutation cipher is used to encrypt the multimedia data, which leaves the global statistics of the multimedia data intact. Therefore, any non-localized watermarking scheme that depends only on global statistics of the multimedia data can be combined with the permutation cipher to form a CWE scheme. We demonstrate this ap...