Two interrelated personal computer (PC) based speech training aids have been developed: one for use in a school or clinic, the Speech Training Station (STS); and the other for the deaf child's home, the Speech Practice Station (SPS). The STS monitors speech production by microphone, electroglottograph, and pneumotachograph. The SPS system uses only the microphone input. Both systems utilize com...

1 ABSTRACT This paper describes a VME multichannel multisampling ADC board designed for low energy physics experiments. To guarantee the maximum experimental flexibility the module is completely programmable through a Digital Signal Processor and a program register accessible via VME bus. With the frequency 40 MHz the single channel can acquire a variable number of samples of each analog input....

At the Australian National University we are developing an autonomous underwater vehicle for exploration and inspection. Our aim is to develop on-board intelligent control. We intend that the vehicle will learn to control its thrusters in response to command and sensor inputs. Algorithms based on reinforcement learning with continuous state and actions are being developed for this purpose.

Primary motor cortex (M1) has traditionally been considered a motor structure. Although neurophysiologic studies have demonstrated that M1 is also influenced by somatosensory inputs (cutaneous and proprioceptive), the behavioral significance of these inputs has yet to be fully defined in primates. The present study describes differential sensory-related deficits after small ischemic lesions in ...

Primary motor cortex (M1) has traditionally been considered a motor structure. While neurophysiologic studies have demonstrated that M1 is also influenced by somatosensory inputs (cutaneous and proprioceptive), the behavioral significance of these inputs has yet to be fully defined in primates. The present study describes differential sensory-related deficits following small ischemic lesions in...

We consider on-board networks in satellites interconnecting entering signals (inputs) to amplifiers (outputs). The connections are made via expensive switches, each of which has four available links. The paths connecting inputs to outputs should be link-disjoint. Some of the input signals, called priorities, must be connected to the amplifiers which provide the best quality of service (that is,...

The problem we consider originates from the design of efficient on-board networks in satellites (also called Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers). Signals incoming in the network through ports have to be routed through an on-board network to amplifiers. The network is made of expensive switches with four links and subject to two types of constraints. First, the amplifiers may fail during satellite l...

Communication complexity roughly asks how much two information two parties need to exchange between one another in order to compute a function on their inputs. This has applications in areas like circuit design, where we can model a board as being partitioned in two halves and we wish to find how how information has to pass from one partition to another. Of course, there are also many applicati...