The multiple instruction streams, low synchronization cost and synchronous nature of the XIMD (variable instruction stream, multiple data stream) architecture create an opportunity for a new architecture-compiler interface. As an extension to the VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architecture, the XIMD can exploit all VLIW scheduling techniques but these do not take full advantage of the unique...

BACKGROUND Parotidectomy is one of the most commonly performed procedures by otorhinolaryngologists. Traditionally dissection is performed with a combination of a steel scalpel and bipolar cautery; however, starting in the early 2000s, the Harmonic scalpel has provided an alternative method for dissection and hemostasis. The purpose of this study is to compare operative time, blood loss, compli...

This paper examines filtering on a sphere, by first examining the roles of spherical harmonic magnitude and phase. We show that phase is more important than magnitude in determining the structure of a spherical function. We examine the properties of linear phase shifts in the spherical harmonic domain, which suggest a mechanism for constructing finiteimpulse-response (FIR) filters. We show that...

This paper presents an approach to parametric voice conversion that can be used in real-time entertainment applications. The approach is based on spectral mapping using an artificial neural network (ANN) with rectified linear units (ReLU). To overcome the oversmoothing problem a special network configuration is proposed that utilizes temporal states of the speaker. The speech is represented usi...

We characterize regular boundary points for p-harmonic functions using weak barriers. We use this to obtain some consequences on boundary regularity. The results also hold for A-harmonic functions under the usual assumptions on A, and for Cheeger p-harmonic functions in metric spaces.