Solution to Cleopatra's Cocktail challenge

Solution to phenylbutazone purity challenge.

In the last 15 years NMR has become a reference technique for the determination of purity for organic standards containing NMR active nuclei [1, 2]. The puzzle proposed for this Analytical Challenge was focused on the use of 1H-NMR for the characterization of a phenylbutazone standard. Such material was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich and analyzed in parallel by HPLC-UV and 1H-NMR. Initially, appl...

Solution to spectroscopy challenge 8.

Malic acid was first isolated by Carl Wilhelm Scheele from apple juice in 1785. Scheele was born in 1742 in Stralsund. The German seaport of Stralsund is situated on the southern coast of a sound of the Baltic Sea that separates the island of Rügen from the mainland. This small town remained under Swedish control until 1815, when it became a part of the Prussian Province of Pomerania. Thus, Sch...

Solution to half-titration challenge.

A Biologically Motivated Solution to the Cocktail Party Problem

We present a new approach to the cocktail party problem that uses a cortronic artificial neural network architecture (Hecht-Nielsen, 1998) as the front end of a speech processing system. Our approach is novel in three important respects. First, our method assumes and exploits detailed knowledge of the signals we wish to attend to in the cocktail party environment. Second, our goal is to provide...

Auditory Perception: Attentive Solution to the Cocktail Party Problem

A recent study has demonstrated how the focus of auditory attention can rapidly shift to follow spectrally dynamic speech-like sounds in the presence of a similar interferer. This requires multidimensional variation in sound features and a minimum spacing in spectral feature space.