A formula for deriving the price of SEW pigs using grain, soybean meal, and market hog prices was estimated based on return on investment being equal for all three phases of production – farrow, nursery, and finish. USDA reported SEW pig prices were compared with formula-derived prices. The level of correlation between these two series was sensitive to how grain, soybean meal, and market hog pr...

This paper presents an overview of a distributed embedded system design assistant called Systems Engineers Workbench (SEW 2.0). SEW 2.0 uses a suite of design frameworks, with supporting representations, to structure the inherent complexity. A set of design assist operatives further improves the ability of the designer to explore the domain space while evaluating performance/resource tradeoffs.

The goal of this thesis is to improve the quality of the Waveform Interpolation (WI) coded speech at 4.25 kbps. The quality improvement is focused on the efficient coding scheme of voiced speech segments, while keeping the basic coding format intact. In the WI paradigm voiced speech is modelled as a concatenation of the Slowly Evolving pitch-cycle Waveforms (SEW). Vector quantization is the opt...

Family firms take different strategic actions because of their desire to grow and preserve socioemotional wealth (SEW), but pursuing SEW also generates what we call resources that deliver advantages in certain contexts. We develop test this idea with respect corporate social responsibility (CSR). theorize such as reputation, strong stakeholder relationships, long-term orientation help family be...

This paper describes a source controlled variable bit-rate (SCVBR) speech coder based on the concept of prototype waveform interpolation. The coder uses a four mode classification : silence, voiced, unvoiced and transition. These modes are detected after the speech has been decomposed into slowly evolving (SEW) and rapidly evolving (REW) waveforms. A voicing activity detection (VAD), the relati...

This paper presents a high quality enhanced waveform interpolative (EWI) speech coder at low bit-rate. The system incorporates novel features such as optimization of the slowly evolving waveform (SEW) for interpolation, analysis-by-synthesis (AbS) vector quantization (VQ) of the SEW dispersion phase, dual-predictive AbS quantization of the SEW, efficient parameterization of the rapidly-evolving...