We present a method to extract speaker turn segmentation from multiple distant microphones (MDM) using only delay values found via a crosscorrelation between the available channels. The method is robust against the number of speakers (which is unknown to the system), the number of channels, and the acoustics of the room. The delays between channels are processed and clustered to obtain a segmen...

Data exchange is an important function for flexible optical network, and it has been extensively investigated for the time and wavelength domains. The mode division multiplexing (MDM) has been proposed to further increase the transmission capacity by carrying information on different modes with only single wavelength carrier. We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel on-chip data exchan...

Modeling is one of the most important factors in the process of computer systems development. It is the process of representing real-world concepts in the computer domains as a blueprint for the purpose of software development. Recent trends in software and system development have also revealed the value of developing systems at higher levels of abstraction. Abstract models streamline and speed...

The use of intervention for time series modelling is a well established technique for on-line forecasting and decision-making in the context of Bayesian dynamic linear models. Intervention has also been recently used in (non-dynamic) Bayesian networks to investigate causal relationships between variables, and in dynamic Bayesian networks to investigate lagged causal relationships between time s...

We investigate the muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment (MDM), the muon electric dipole moment (EDM) and the lepton-flavour-violating decays of the τ−lepton, τ → μγ and τ → 3μ, in the CP-violating Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with nonuniversal softsupersymmetry breaking. We evaluate numerically the muon EDM and the branching ratios B(τ → μγ) and B(τ → 3μ), after taking into acc...

ABSTRACT An apertureless near-field scanning optical microscope (a-NSOM) setup is described. Special consideration is given to important system components. Surface plasmons are defined, as is their relationship to aNSOM and their interaction with the scanning probe tip. We used this set-up to measure a metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) antenna integrated with a quantum cascade laser (QCL). The forme...

Monocytes lack lactoferrin and have much less myeloperoxidase than neutrophils. They also acquire a potential catalyst for .OH production (tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase) as they differentiate into macrophages. Consequently, the nature of free radicals produced by these cells was examined using the previously developed spin-trapping system. When stimulated with either PMA or OZ neither mon...

This paper provides further insight into the key concept of missing at random (MAR) in incomplete data analysis. Following the usual selection modelling approach we envisage two models with separable parameters: a model for the response of interest and a model for the missing data mechanism (MDM). If the response model is given by a complete density family, then frequentist inference from the l...

Yield and ear quality of sweet corn (Zea mays L.) can be reduced by maize dwarf mosaic (MDM). When Janson and Ellett (6) first reported the disease from southern Ohio, they observed nearly total losses in fields of late-planted sweet corn. Yield reduction due to MDM and symptom expression are affected by the growth stage at which sweet corn is infected (5,12, 18,25). When late plantings of swee...

Though component-based software development is widely accepted in the enterprise business and desktop application domains, developers of distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems have encountered limitations with conventional component middleware platforms, such as the CORBA Component Model (CCM) and the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). These limitations often preclude developers of DRE...