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This paper describes a robust speech documents retrieval system that uses voice input keywords. To solve the inevitable problems which arise when the input to the system is speech, i.e. misrecognition, a novel method was developed, where, before the retrieval processing, unproductive keyword candidates are discarded by a grouping processing using the similarity between words and the recognition...

Recently, single-carrier transmission with frequencydomain equalization (SC-FDE) is attracting attention since the good transmission performance is achieved in a severe frequency-selective fading channel. Most of studies on SC-FDE assumed a propagation channel having sample-spaced time delays. However, the real propagation channel has fractionally spaced time delays. Under such an environment, ...

We study a network model in which each network link is associated with a set of delays and costs. These costs are a function of the delays and reflect the prices paid in return for delay guarantees. Such a cost structure can model a setting in which the service provider provides multiple service classes with a different price and delay guarantee for each class. We are given a source node s, a s...

Modern high-performance asynchronous circuits depend on timing constraints for correct operation, so timing analyzers are essential asynchronous design tools. In this paper, we present a 13-valued abstract waveform algebra and a polynomial-time min-max timing simulation algorithm for use in efficient, approximate timing analysis of asynchronous circuits with bounded component delays. Unlike sev...

The aim of this contribution is to revise and extend results about stability and stabilization of a retarded quasipolynomial and systems obtained using the Mikhaylov criterion in our papers earlier. Not only retarded linear time-invariant time-delay systems (LTI-TDS) are considered in this paper; neutral as well as distributeddelay systems are the matter of the research. A LTI-TDS system of ret...

Abstract “Queer” is a relatively recent and somewhat controversial term in African studies. Yet it proving to be productive, not only for understanding subjectivities of sexuality gender, but also situating Africa’s position the larger economy knowledge. Otu van Klinken explore productive tensions between “queer” “Africa,” aim read Africa as queer from Africa. Thus, rather than imagining polar ...