Human listeners can perceive speech signals from a voicemodulated ultrasonic carrier which is presented through a boneconduction stimulator, even if they are sensorineural hearing loss patients. As an application of this phenomenon, we have been developing a bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing aid (BCUHA). This research examined whether formant space and F0 can be cues of speaker discrimination i...

Balanced nested designs are closely related to other combinatorial structures such as balanced arrays and balanced n-ary designs. In particular, the existence of symmetric balanced nested designs is equivalent to the existence of some balanced arrays. In this paper, various constructions for symmetric balanced nested designs are provided. They are used to determine the spectrum of symmetric bal...

In this note the existence of a (Vj P2j 4, 2) BTD I for P2 = 0, 1 and 2, in which any pair of blocks intersect in at most two elements, is proved for any admissible v. A balanced ternary design is a collection of multi-sets of size k, chosen from a v-set in such a way that each element occurs 0, 1 or 2 times in anyone block, each pair of non-distinct elements, {x, x}, occurs in P2 blocks of the...