Results of magnetization and high-field electron spin resonance (ESR) studies of the new spin-1 Haldane-chain material [Ni(C2H8N2)2NO2] (BF4) (NENB) are reported. A definite signature of the Haldane state in NENB was obtained. From the analysis of the frequency–field dependence of magnetic excitations in NENB, the spin-Hamiltonian parameters were calculated, yielding 1/kB = 17.4 K, g‖ = 2.14, D...

This study investigated the effects of hearing impairment and auditory vs. auditory-visual perception of lexical tone by native Thai hearing impaired listeners: Hearing Impaired with Hearing Aids (HI+HA), Hearing Impaired without Hearing Aids (HIHA), and Normal Hearing (NH). Adults’ discrimination of the 5 Thai tones was investigated in auditory-visual (AV), auditoryonly (AO), and visual-only (...

Speech recognition in reverberant environments is still a challenge problem. In this paper, we first investigated the reverberation effect on subband temporal envelopes by using the modulation transfer function (MTF). Based on the investigation, we proposed an algorithm which normalizes the subband temporal modulation spectrum (TMS) to reduce the diffusion effect of the reverberation. During th...

In the subband coding of images, directionality of image features has thus far been exploited very little. The proposed subband coding scheme utilizes orientation of local image features to avoid the highly objectionable Gibbs-like phenomena observed at reconstructed image edges with conventional subband schemes at low bit rates, At comparable bit rates, the subjective image quality obtained by...

This paper presents design methods for boundary filters for the processing of finite-length signals. In particular, it is shown how vanishing moments can be imposed during the design. Applications are found in segmentation-based audio and shape-adaptive image compression.

Regulatory policy in telecommunications is desperately in need of mid-level theory. There is widespread consensus that regulators should try to promote competition. There is also bitter contention about what this implies for particular industry battles. For example, an industry observer declared, “Competition should be the policy. And code that enables competition should be the rule.” He then w...

Psychophysical two-tone suppression and the growth of the (2f• --f2} and • --f•) distortion products were measured in four normal-hearing young adults using a forward-masking paradigm. The stimulus parameters investigated were: (1)f• = 750 and 3000 Hz; (2)f2/f• = 1.1 l, 1.26, and 1.41; (3) L• = 50, 65, 80, and 90 dB SPL; and (4) L2 -L• varied from -20 to + 20 dB in 10-dB increments. It appears ...

Crystallographic analyses of x-ray and neutron diffraction data have provided a definitive structural representation of fHRh[P(O-i-C3H7)3J2j2 and IHRhIP(OCH3)31213. These polynuclear hydrides are generated from square planar H2RhIP(OR)3J2 units by edge (hydrogen atom) sharing and by vertex (hydrogen atom) sharing to form the dimeric and trimeric structures, respectively. The square-planar units...