A two-stage singing voice separation algorithm using spectrotemporal modulation features is proposed in this paper. First, music clips are transformed into auditory spectrograms and the spectral-temporal modulation contents of all time-frequency (T-F) units of the auditory spectrograms are extracted using an auditory model. Then, T-F units are sequentially clustered using the expectation-maximi...

The increasing use of citation impact metrics for evaluation and comparison not only of individual researchers but also of institutions, universities and even countries has prompted the development of bibliometrics. Currently, these metrics are becoming widely accepted as an easy and balanced way to compare and rank scientists and/or research units. This paper presents a benchmarking study of a...

The Gillespie t-Leaping Method is an approximate algorithm that is faster than the exact Direct Method (DM) due to the progression of the simulation with larger time steps. However, the procedure to compute the time leap t is quite expensive. In this paper, we explore the acceleration of the t-Leaping Method using Graphics Processing Unit (GPUs) for ultra-large networks (w0:5e reaction channels...

The increasing use of productivity and impact metrics for evaluation and comparison, not only of individual researchers but also of institutions, universities and even countries, has prompted the development of bibliometrics. Currently, metrics are becoming widely accepted as an easy and balanced way to assist the peer review and evaluation of scientists and/or research units, provided they hav...

Bacterial transformation, the transfer of genetic markers by DXA, provides a mechanism by which closely linked genetic loci may be ordered in a segmental map. Since a unit of DNA transferred from a donor bact#erium to the recipient) cell represents only a small fragment of the entire genome,’ it is not possible to arrange many randomly distributed loci in any single transfer experiment. By the ...

the proposed method, the profit maximization problem is transformed into a minimization problem that can be solved by a traditional hydro-thermal unit commitment program after implementing a few modifications. The paper describes t he modifications introduced in a unit commitment program based on the Lagrangian relaxation approach and on a disaggregated Bundle method for the solution of the dua...

(1967), pp. 848-854] composed of n units is said to be t/(t + l) diagnosable [A. D. Friedman, A new measure of digital system diagnosis, in Dig. 1975 Int. Symp. Fault-Tolerant Comput., 1975, pp. 167-170] if, given a syndrome (complete collection of test results), the set of faulty units can be isolated to within a set of at most + units, assuming that at most units in the system are faulty. Thi...