This paper proposes the technique enabling a design of readymade library composed of high performance and small size acoustic models utilizing the method of visualizing multiple HMM acoustic models onto two-dimensional space (“COSMOS” method: aCOustic Space Map Of Sound), and providing one of these models without overburdening users. The acoustic space (as expressed in multi-dimensional future ...

We summarise the existing CoSMoS approach to modelling and simulating complex systems, then introduce how the various CoSMoS models are related via their metamodel, and demonstrate the generality of the process by discussing its application to engineering bio-

How should the metaphysical hypothesis of materialism be formulated? What strategies look promising for defending this hypothesis? How good are the prospects for its successful defense, especially in light of the infamous ‘‘hard problem’’ of phenomenal consciousness? I will say something about each of these questions. 1. FORMULATING MATERIALISM In seeking a satisfactory formulation of materiali...

Albert Einstein was a subjectivistic mathematical idealist. His physics consisted of mathematical models of the subject’s ideas—his sensations and measurements. Einstein’s “objective reality” was intersubjective reality—the experiences about which various observers could agree. His “causes” were mental constructs created to systematize the observers’ experiences. He modeled reality as it was ex...

Introduction: Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) provides both visualization and quantification of endogenous and exogenous susceptibility contrast. Finding the susceptibility distribution from the measured field map requires a deconvolution of that field map with the unit dipole response, a process which is ill-posed [1]. Several techniques have been proposed to solve the problem by mul...

The United Kingdom COhort Study of MObile phone uSe and health (UK COSMOS) is a prospective cohort study established to investigate the possible health effects associated with long-term use of mobile phones and other wireless technologies, to inform public health policy in the UK and beyond. UK COSMOS is part of the international COSMOS cohort study consortium (the UK, Sweden, The Netherlands, ...

Soil moisture at a horizontal scale of around 700 m and depths of 15 to 70 cm can be inferred from measurements of cosmic-ray neutrons that are generated within soil, moderated mainly by the hydrogen atoms in water, and emitted back to the atmosphere. The intensity of the resulting field of neutrons above the ground is sensitive to water content changes, largely insensitive to soil chemistry an...

Integrating dedicated applications with a wireless LAN and WAN infrastructure, the COSMOS system provides "Construction Site Mobile Operations Support". In this paper, we focus on the approach taken in COSMOS for bandwidth management across the bottleneck satellite WAN link, particularly for supporting video conferencing between company headquarters and construction sites. We discuss the IETF Q...