It is unclear as to how infants learn the acoustic expression of each phoneme of their native languages. In recent studies, researchers have inspected phoneme acquisition by using a computational model. However, these studies have used a limited vocabulary as input and do not handle a continuous speech that is almost comparable to a natural environment. Therefore, we use a natural continuous sp...

The Study of Innovation and Technology in China (SITC) is a project of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. SITC Policy Briefs provide analysis and recommendations based on the work of project participants. Author's views are their own. Summary T his policy brief examines how innovation takes place within the Chinese defense research, development, and acqui...

The continuous operation of the transmission system is very important. For ensuring high levels of continuous operation it is not only important to select appropriate insulation withstand levels for various power apparatus, insulators etc., but it is also necessary to consider the pollution withstand levels for external insulation. Problems arise when the insulators, which are polluted and expo...

In this study, we present a mobile health (m-Health) system that will be used for continuous monitoring of children with suspected cardiac arrhythmias. The system is able to do real-time acquisition and transmission of ECG signals, and facilitate an alarm scheme able to identify possible arrhythmias so as to notify the on-call doctor and the relatives of the child that an event or something tha...

Blood pressure (BP) is one of the most important monitoring parameters in clinical medicine. For years, the cuff-based sphygmomanometer and the arterial invasive line have been the gold standards for care professionals to assess BP. During the past few decades, the wide spread of the oscillometry-based BP arm or wrist cuffs have made home-based BP assessment more convenient and accessible. Howe...

It is common practice to perform spatially resolved X-ray data acquisition by automatically moving components to discrete locations and then measuring beam intensity with the system at rest. While effective, scanning in this manner can be time consuming, with motors needing to accelerate, move and decelerate at each location before recording data. Information between data points may be missed u...

In the face of crises and risks, emergency responders are often faced with challenges in terms of reaching audiences in treacherous locations, or that are unreachable due to infrastructure failure. Social robots offer one solution for delivering information cornering risks under these circumstances. An exploratory study examined the responses of individuals to risk messages disseminated through...

Structural health monitoring (SHM) involves continuous monitoring of a structure’s condition with near real-time analysis of sensed data. The emerging wireless sensor network (WSN) technology enables distributed data acquisition and processing for structure monitoring applications, which currently adopt a centralized solution, using a network of intelligent sensors. We design a robust WSN-based...