Speech dereverberation remains an open problem after more than three decades of research. The most challenging step in speech dereverberation is blind channel identification (BCI). Although many BCI approaches have been developed, their performance is still far from satisfactory for practical applications. The main difficulty in BCI lies in finding an appropriate acoustic model, which not only ...

In this paper, we describe how to efficiently implement an acoustic room simulator to generate large-scale simulated data for training deep neural networks. Even though Google Room Simulator in [1] was shown to be quite effective in reducing the Word Error Rates (WERs) for far-field applications by generating simulated far-field training sets, it requires a very large number of Fast Fourier Tra...

Objective: To establish the motivating factors for member participation in a patient safety Breakthrough Series (BTS) Collaborative. Design: A qualitative, process-oriented, formative evaluation using a participatory approach, the Researcher-in-Residence (RiR) model. The RiR embraces the concept of ‘co-producing’ knowledge between researchers and practitioners using qualitative research methods...

Identifying locations of occupants is beneficial to energy management in buildings. A key observation in indoor environment is that distinct functional areas are typically controlled by separate HVAC and lighting systems and room level localization is sufficient to provide a powerful tool for energy usage reduction by occupancy-based actuation of the building facilities. Based upon this observa...

Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre a produção humorística de Jô Soares (1938-2022) centrada nos programas televisivos e espetáculos teatrais que foi autor e, particularmente, nas múltiplas personagens criou. A análise dessas – para cuja composição são igualmente importantes o texto, os adereços, gestos, trejeitos bordões permite elencar temas alvos intervenção artística evoluiu da comicid...

The majority of the studies in field mechanofluorochromism (MFC), based on donor (D)-acceptor (A) complexes, have reported that MFC was strongly associated with intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) character and aggregation-induced emission (AIE). However, mechanism has been inconclusively demonstrated. In this study, a triphenylamine (TPA) introduced BODIPY complex designed synthesized to demo...

two breeds of chickens were used to develop reference family and detect qtls affecting egg quality traits: cocks of a native polish breed green-legged partidgenous (glp) and hens of rhode island red (rir). during the first 100 days of the laying period, the glp hens lay about 40 eggs weighting on average 50 g, whilst the rir flock laid 83 eggs with a mean weight of 60 g. qtl analysis of egg qua...

Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA These authors contributed equally to this work. Running title: Structure of the Rev1 CTD-Rev3/7-Pol  RIR complex To whom correspondence should be address...

'Repetitions in Reserve' (RIR) scales in resistance training (RT) are used to control effort but assume people accurately predict performance a priori (i.e. the number of possible repetitions to momentary failure (MF)). This study examined the ability of trainees with different experience levels to predict number of repetitions to MF. One hundred and forty-one participants underwent a full body...