of the Thesis Low Complexity Spectral Imputation for Noise Robust Speech Recognition by Julien van Hout Master of Science in Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles, 2012 Professor Abeer Alwan, Chair With the recent push of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) capabilities to mobile devices, the user’s voice is now recorded in environments with a potentially high level of bac...

The current study investigated the possible effects of static magnetic fields (SMFs) on the developmental and aging processes of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nematodes were grown in the presence of SMFs of strengths varying from 0 to 200 mT. The rate of development and the lifespan were recorded. Treatment with a 200 mT SMF reduced the development time from the L2 to the L3 stage by 20%, from L3 to ...

Novel Catalytic Non-Thermal Plasma Reactor for the Destruction of Volatile Organic Compounds L. Kiwi-Minsker, Ch. Subrahmanyam and A. Renken Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (GGRC-EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, Fax: +41-21693 31 90, [email protected] Summary A novel dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor has been designed and tested for the abatement of diluted vol...

The purposes of this research were to evaluate phorbol esters (PEs) degradation rate and enzyme production yield using submerged fermentation (SMF) as screening method and further using solid-state fermentation (SSF) as pilot scale-up study. SMF was carried out with 20 g seed cake in 100 ml minimal salt medium for 7 days incubation, while SSF was done with 20 g seed cake at 50% moisture content...

The effects of a vegetable oil-based infant formula, virtually devoid of n-6 and n-3 long chain polyenoid fatty acids (LCP) and high in 18:2(n-6) and 18:2(n-6)/18:3(n-3) ratio, on brain synaptosome lipid composition and enzyme thermotropic behavior were studied in neonatal piglets. Term gestation piglets were fed either sow milk (SMF) or formula (FF) from birth for 5, 10, 15, or 25 days. Synapt...

A novel catalytic reactor with dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) at atmospheric pressure was developed for the abatement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The novelty of DBD reactor is the metallic catalyst serving also as the inner electrode. The catalytic electrode was prepared from sintered metal fibers (SMF) in the form of a cylindrical tube. Oxides of Mn and Co were deposited on SMF b...

Shape optimization is applied to time-dependent trailing-edge flow in order to minimize aerodynamic noise. Optimization is performed using the surrogate management framework (SMF), a non-gradient based pattern search method chosen for its efficiency and rigorous convergence properties. Using SMF, design space exploration is performed not with the expensive actual function but with an inexpensiv...

Selective excitation of graded-index multimode fibers (GI-MMFs) with a single-mode fiber (SMF) has gained increased interest for telecommunication applications. It has been proposed as a way to enhance the transmission bandwidth of GI-MMF links and/or create parallel communication channels over the same GI-MMF. Although the effect of SMF excitation on the transmission bandwidth has been investi...

An efficient processing of organic solid residues will be pivotal in the development circular bioeconomy. Due to their composition, such comprise a great biochemical conversion potential through fermentations. Generally, carbohydrates and proteins present wastes cannot directly metabolized by microorganisms. Thus, before fermentation, enzymes are used hydrolysis step release digestible sugars n...

In this paper, we present a generic extension of location-based ad hoc routing protocols named Skewed Map Forwarding (SMF). SMF incorporates multipath routing into any location-based routing protocol, while preserving the stateless property of location-based protocols. It alters/distorts the view of the network topology from the routing protocol by mapping the physical coordinates of nodes to l...