Energy compaction has proven to be an essential concept in signal-adapted data compression. In particular, optimization of orthonormal subband coders for a given power spectrum directly leads to optimal energy compaction lters. In this paper, we consider some new design methods and properties of optimal FIR energy compaction lters. In particular , we propose a very eecient method called the win...

We propose a new structure for blind equalization with spatiotemporal diversity at the receiver (SIMO system). This structure is derived from the Wiener filter. It is composed by a prefilter deduced from the data spectral density (no blind criterion is needed) and a FIR filter, independent from the noise level, to be obtained blindly. The new prefilter is robust to a total lack of effective div...

This paper discusses non-filter waveform generation from cepstral features using spectral phase reconstruction as an alternative method to replace the conventional source-filter model in text-to-speech (TTS) systems. As the primary purpose of the use of filters is considered as producing a waveform from the desired spectrum shape, one possible alternative of the sourcefilter framework is to dir...

Hynek Hermansky, Eric A. Wan, and Carlos Avendano Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics P.O. Box 91000, Portland, OR 97291 ABSTRACT Finite Impulse Response (FIR) Wiener-like lters are applied to time trajectories of cubic-root compressed short-term power spectrum of noisy speech recorded over cellular telephone communications....

Energy compaction has proven to be an essential concept in signal-adapted data compression. In particular, optimization of orthonormal subband coders for a given power spectrum directly leads to optimal energy compaction lters. In this paper, we consider some new design methods and properties of optimal FIR energy compaction lters. In particular, we propose a very e cient method called the wind...

The purpose of the current study was to determine the relationships between lifetime physical activity participation, neuromuscular performance and body composition in men at musculoskeletal maturity. 50 healthy men (age 25.2±4.5 years) volunteered to participate. Lifetime physical activity was determined from the Bone-specific Physical Activity Questionnaire. Impulse generated during a maximal...

In order to reduce the signal holes in wireless sensor networks, we proposed a sensor deployment density-aware signal hole repair strategy of mobile crowd network. On the one hand, based on the multi-dimensional connected graph, the density continuous jitter problem of the sensor network is solved effectively. Sensor density prediction method improves the efficiency of random deployment of sens...

Dopaminergic medications used in the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease are associated with motor and non-motor behavioural side-effects, such as dyskinesias and impulse control disorders also known as behavioural addictions. Levodopa-induced dyskinesias occur in up to 80% of patients with Parkinson's after a few years of chronic treatment. Impulse control disorders, including gambl...

the impulse oscillation system (ios) measures respiratory impedance (zrs) in terms of resistance (rrs) and reactance (xrs) at multiples of 5 hz. these measurements can be used clinically to help diagnose and monitor respiratory disorders, independent of effort. there is, as yet, no information on reference values for ios in iranian adolescents. the predictive equation for resistance and impedan...

Hydrogen peroxide has recently been considered as a monopropellant in micropropulsion systems for the next generation of miniaturized satellites (‘nanosats’) due to its high energy density, modest specific impulse and “green” characteristics. Efforts at the University of Vermont have focused on the development of a MEMS-based microthruster that uses the catalyzed decomposition of hydrogen perox...