Relationships between self-harm and vulnerability factors were studied in a general population of 432 participants, of whom 30% reported some experience of self-harm. This group scored higher on dissociation and childhood trauma, had lower self-worth, and reported more negative intrusive thoughts. Among the non-harming group, 10% scored similarly to the self-harmers on the dissociation and self...

An accurate method of estimating the efficiency of in-service motors is needed in order to determine the performance of installed motors without disrupting the motor driven process.. In this paper, the motor efficiency is estimated using a non-intrusive implementation of the compensated slip method. The motor speed is accurately estimated using motor vibration signature analysis. A few other ef...

The reported study focuses on overlapping speech, transcription, annotation and disfluency analysis in an 8-hour audio corpus of French political interviews. Overlaps are frequent (on average 3-4 overlaps per minute) and of short duration (5% of data), non-intrusive overlaps being significantly shorter than intrusive ones. Disfluencies include repetitions, revisions and filled pauses. Manual an...

In this article, we present an approach towards a new nonintrusive speech quality estimator. The proposed method facilitates the evaluation of speech telephony services and provides diagnostic information by assessing dimensions of the perceptual quality space. One of these quality dimensions is Loudness, which describes a non optimal sound level. As an important part of the proposed model, a n...

This study explored whether a relatively poor ability to resist or inhibit interference from irrelevant information in working memory is associated with experiencing undesirable intrusive memories. Non-selected participants (N=91) completed a self-report measure of intrusive memories, and carried out experimental tasks intended to measure two different types of inhibition: resistance to proacti...

Relationships between self-harm and vulnerability factors were studied in a general population of 432 participants, of whom 30% reported some experience of self-harm. This group scored higher on dissociation and childhood trauma, had lower self worth, and reported more negative intrusive thoughts. Amongst the non-harming group, 10% scored similarly to the self-harmers on the dissociation and se...

Speech enhancement employing deep neural networks (DNNs) for denoising is called noise suppression (DNS). The DNS trained with mean squared error (MSE) losses cannot guarantee good perceptual quality. Perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) a widely used metric evaluating However, the original PESQ algorithm non-differentiable, therefore, directly be as optimization criterion gradient-ba...

Mathematical modelling of dynamical processes often yields systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) or differential algebraic equations (DAEs). We investigate corresponding boundary value problems. Considering uncertainties in physical parameters of the systems, we introduce random variables. This stochastic model is resolved by the strategy of the polynomial chaos. A non-intrusive app...

Emotional memories, and especially intrusive memories, are a common feature of many psychological disorders, and are overconsolidated by stress. Attachment theory posits that activation of mental representations of attachment figures can reduce stress and boost coping. This study tested the proposition that attachment activation would reduce consolidation of emotional and intrusive memories. Si...