This thesis involves designing discrete-time filters for modifying the spectrum of audio signals. The main contribution of this research is the significant reduction in the order of the filters. To achieve this, we have combined a technique called frequency transformation, or frequency warping, with an effective Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter design algorithm. Both techniques exploit some...

This paper proposes a new method of designing finitesupport wavelet filters, based on minimization of energy in key parts of the frequency domain. In particular this technique is shown to be very effective for designing families of filters that are suitable for use in the shift-invariant DualTree Complex Wavelet structure that has been developed by the author recently, and has been shown to be ...

RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is a powerful technology that allows one to assess the RNA levels in a sample. Analysis of these levels can help in identifying novel transcripts (coding, non-coding and splice variants), understanding transcript structures, and estimating gene/allele expression. Biologists face specific challenges while designing RNA-seq experiments. The nature of these challenges lies...

The workflow of enterprises usually involves the integration of multiple applications from various systems. To lower the difficulty of integration, Enterprise Integration Patterns could be helpful. Each pattern poses a specific design problem, discusses the considerations surrounding the problem, and presents an elegant solution that balances the various forces. The BPEL language is used to mod...

Increasing user encounters with connected devices, IoT, Smart Home and Connected Cars have been motivating designers and HCI researchers need to craft interaction solutions for such scenarios of the future. Designing solutions for scenarios, which we named M3 that involves multiple contexts (Multi-Envi‐ ronment) with users using connected devices (Multi-Device), using natural inter‐ actions (Mu...

This work is a sample of designing a simple object, just like a coffee machine, using innovative methodologies as Quality Function Deployment, Value Analysis and Design for Assembly. These are three methods which serve to improve quality during the process of design; they are part of the famous designing technique which is named Concurrent Engineering. The first one, QFD, is structuring all the...

A good estimate of the design effect is critical for calculating the most efficient sample size for cluster surveys. We reviewed the design effects for seven nutrition and health outcomes from nine population-based cluster surveys conducted in emergency settings. Most of the design effects for outcomes in children, and one-half of the design effects for crude mortality, were below two. A reasse...

BACKGROUND Cluster-randomized trials, in which health interventions are allocated randomly to intact clusters or communities rather than to individual subjects, are increasingly being used to evaluate disease control strategies both in industrialized and in developing countries. Sample size computations for such trials need to take into account between-cluster variation, but field epidemiologis...