Loss minimization is a long progressing issue mainly in distribution system. Nevertheless its effect led to temperature rise due to significant voltage drop through the distribution line. Thus, compensation scheme should be proper scheduled in the attempt to alleviate the voltage drop phenomenon. Distributed generation has been profoundly known for voltage profile improvement; provided that ove...

Fluoroscopic overlay images rendered from pre-operative volumetric data can provide additional guidance for physicians during catheter ablation procedures for treatment of atrial fibrillation (AFib). As these overlay images are compromised by cardiac and respiratory motion, motion compensation methods have been proposed. The approaches so far either require simultaneous biplane imaging for 3-D ...

This paper presents a set of acoustic feature pre-processing techniques that are applied to improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance on noisy speech recognition tasks. The principal contribution of this paper is an approach for cepstrum-domain feature compensation in ASR which is motivated by techniques for decomposing speech and noise that were originally developed for noisy sp...

Objecrive Ratemaking data, particularly loss development pattems, for a state which has enacted major workers compensation reform is not available for a number of years following reform. As a result adjustment, or actuarial judgment, needs to be applied to historical pre-reform data to reflect expected post-refotm loss development pattems. The adjusted pattem can then be incorporated into tradi...

This paper presents a set of acoustic feature pre–processing techniques that are applied to improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance on the Aurora 2 noisy speech recognition task. The principal contribution of this paper is an approach for cepstrum domain feature compensation in ASR which is motivated by techniques for decomposing speech and noise that were originally developed ...

The latest edition of the Physician Executive Compensation Survey reflects the reality of a slow economic recovery and the uncertainty of health care reform. As self-reported by 2,364 physician executives, compensation grew an average of 7 percent between 2010 and 2012 across all titles. That two-year growth rate is essentially the same as reported in the 2011 survey (6 percent between 2008 and...

Lexical information facilitates speech perception, especially when sounds are ambiguous or degraded. The interactive approach to understanding this effect posits that this facilitation is accomplished through bi-directional flow of information, allowing lexical knowledge to influence pre-lexical processes. Alternative autonomous theories posit feed-forward processing with lexical influence rest...

Due to the capture process, video signals are generally contaminated by noise. Furthermore, overall video quality can be improved by reducing sharpness in fast moving areas, except in cases where the eye is able to track the motion. In this paper we propose a relatively simple pre-processing method that is able to address both these situations. The proposed pre-processing algorithm is based on ...

this study addresses executive compensation from shareholders perspective by empirically examining the effects of chief executive officer (ceo) compensation on firm performance subsequent to the year of compensation. three factors of ceo compensation are examined, size, total annual compensation; form percentage of total compensation comprised of cash, cash bonuses and stock; and sensitivity. t...

The current study was designed to test potential caloric and macronutrient counter-regulation or compensation amongst 76 participants who participated in a milkshake preload experiment. Participants completed food diaries for 2 days before and 2 days after participating in the pre-load experiment. It was hypothesized that dieters and restrained eaters might respond to the pre-load by compensati...