An all-dry silicon-etch based micromachining process for neural probes was demonstrated in the manufacture of a probe with a 32-site recording electrode array. The fork-like probe shafts were formed by double-sided deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, with the buried SiO2 layer acting as an etch stop. The shafts typically had the dimensions 5 mm × 25 μm × ...

Review of Raquel Rolnik, Urban Warfare. A global panorama housing policy in the era footloose financial capital.

Nowadays, service robots are appearing more and in our daily life. For this type of robot, open-ended object category learning recognition is necessary since no matter how extensive the training data used for batch learning, robot might be faced with a new object when operating real-world envir...

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans appears to be a valuable method for assessing pulp canal configuration. The aim of this report is to describe endodontic treatment of a mandibular second premolar with aberrant pulp canal morphology detected by CBCT and confirmed by 3D modeling. An accessory canal was suspected during endodontic treatment of the...

A new, single-ended, i.e. reference-free measure for the prediction of perceived listening effort of noisy speech is presented. It is based on phoneme posterior probabilities (or posteriorgrams) obtained from a deep neural network of an automatic speech recognition system. Additive noisy or other distortions of speech tend to smear the posteriorgrams. The smearing is quantified by a performance...

For a country with over 200 million people and severe infrastructural deficit, the reality is that Nigeria has no wherewithal to meet demand for fixing its transport alone, without external financing technical assistance. With rising constraint on public resources fiscal space, it obvious government alone cannot provide necessary address deficit in like Nigeria. Hence, importance of China’s int...