State of the art objective measures for quantifying voice quality mostly consider estimation of features extracted from the magnitude spectrum. Assuming that speech is obtained by exciting a minimum-phase (vocal tract filter) and a maximum-phase component (glottal source), the amplitude spectrum cannot capture the maximum phase characteristics. Since voice quality is connected to the glottal so...

It is argued that an irregularity in the baryon stopping is a natural consequence of onset of deconfinement occurring in the compression stage of a nuclear collision. It is an effect of the softest point inherent in an equation of state (EoS) with a deconfinement transition. In order to illustrate this effect, calculations within the three-fluid model were performed with three different EoS’s: ...

The most commonly used deconvolution (Decon) method is based on minimum-phase assumption for the wavelet which is often not valid. Explosive energy source is close to minimum-phase which makes seismic data with explosive somewhat amenable to predictive Decon though the result is imperfect in phase. Decon of Vibroseis data is more problematic because the wavelet in a correlated Vibroseis trace i...

This paper introduces a new speech model, termed as the mixed-phase model, based on the assumption that the speech signal is produced by convolution of a maximum phase glottal excitation signal with a minimum phase vocal tract filter impulse response. The glottal excitation signal is assumed to be an anti-causal stable signal and the vocal tract filter is assumed to be causal and stable. For es...

Conventional dual-frequency fringe projection algorithm often suffers from phase unwrapping failure when the frequency ratio between the high frequency and the low one is too large. Zhang et.al. proposed an enhanced two-frequency phase-shifting method to use geometric constraints of digital fringe projection(DFP) to reduce the noise impact due to the large frequency ratio. However, this method ...

We include p-spin interactions in a spherical version of a soluble mean-field spinglass model proposed by van Hemmen. Due to the simplicity of the solutions, which do not require the use of the replica trick, we are able to carry out a detailed investigation of a number of special situations. For p ≥ 3, there appear first-order transitions between the paramagnetic and the ordered phases. In the...

This paper considers the robust control of non-linear uncertain chemical processes in the presence of input-delay and inverse response. A novel and systematic sliding mode control (SMC) scheme, which integrates a time-advanced non-linear predictor and a statically equivalent output map (SEOM), is proposed to compensate for the process s input-delay and to circumvent the negative effect of inver...

model order reduction is known as the problem of minimizing the -norm of the difference between the transfer function of the original system and the reduced one. in many papers, linear matrix inequality (lmi) approach is utilized to address the minimization problem. this paper deals with defining an extra matrix inequality constraint to guarantee that the minimum phase characteristic of the sys...

Abstract: This paper presents a neuro-adaptive output-feedback stabilization method for nonlinear non-minimum phase systems with partially known Lipschitz continuous functions in their arguments. The proposed controller is comprised of a linear, a neuro-adaptive, and an adaptive robustifying control term. The adaptation laws for the neural network weights are obtained using the Lyapunov’s direc...