Cultural differences have been one of the many factors that can cause failures in speech emotion analysis. If this cultural parameter could be regarded as noise artifacts in detecting emotion in speech, we could then extract pure emotion speech signal from the raw emotional speech. In this paper we use the amplitude spectral subtraction (ASS) method to profile the emotion from raw emotional spe...

In 1928 Henry Solomon Wellcome, facing the Royal Commission on National Museums and Galleries, elaborated on his deep fascination with "the great past".' The passion of this remarkable American-born entrepreneur, co-founder of the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co and "obsessive collector of medical artefacts, instruments and books",2 is amply evident in the Wellcome Archive, which...

Produced water (PW) during oil and gas production operations contains various hazardous substances including heavy metals (HM) with adverse impact on the environment. Disposal of PW interferes environmental sustainability, making treatment obligatory prior to discharge into Among previously available treatments PW, environmentally sustainable methods using low-pore space bio-adsorbents require ...

A macro structure cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC) or MS_CMAC was developed by connecting several one-dimensional (1-D) CMACs as a tree structure, which decomposes a multidimensional problem into a set of 1-D subproblems, to reduce the computational complexity in multidimensional CMAC. Additionally, a trapezium scheme is proposed to assist MS_CMAC to model nonlinear systems. Howe...

This paper presents an intelligent control scheme that uses a cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC) and genetic algorithms (GA) in aircraft automatic landing control and to make automatic landing systems (ALS) more intelligent. The proposed intelligent controller can act as an experienced pilot and guide the aircraft to a safe landing in severe turbulence environment. Current flight c...