The goal for most speech enhancement techniques is to improve speech quality by increasing intelligibility and/or reducing listener fatigue. The Multi-microphone Sub-band Adaptive (MMSBA) processing scheme has been shown to improve both the SNR and speech intelligibility of a wanted speech source in the presence of an unwanted noise source, in a moderately reverberant real-room environment usin...

From a heuristic calculation of the leading order essential singularity in the distribution of Yang-Lee zeroes, we obtain new scaling relations near the ferromagnetic-Griffiths transition, including the prediction of a discontinuity on the analogue of the critical isotherm. We show that experimental data for the magnetization and heat capacity of La(0.7)Ca(0.3)MnO(3) are consistent with these p...

We develop a recently proposed importance-sampling Monte Carlo algorithm for sampling rare events and quenched variables in random disordered systems. We apply it to a two dimensional bond-diluted Ising model and study the Griffiths singularity which is considered to be due to the existence of rare large clusters. It is found that the distribution of the inverse susceptibility has an exponentia...

Nowadays, Internet and mobile phone use are widespread worldwide. Forty percent of the world population use the Internet, whereas six times more individuals are online today compared to the last decade (International Telecommunication Union, 2012, 2013). Advancements in digital technologies have resulted in various positive applications, including (but not limited to) promoting (mental) health,...

Griffiths’ “quantum trajectories” formalism is extended to describe weak decoherence. The decoherence conditions are shown to severely limit the complexity of histories composed of fine-grained events. CPP-94-33 In response to the increasingly popular opinion that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics raises more questions than it answers [7] and a desire to treat the entire univer...