The gradual and painstaking determination of the CKM matrix over a long period of time is a remarkable accomplishment of our field, and hopefully it will attain a level of completion from the B-factory studies to come. The emphasis of B-factories will be on the physics of b quarks and deservedly so. Already, there is discovery of a ∆B = 2 process (Bd−Bd mixing) and an EW-penguin decay (B → K γ)...

Research advances in digital factory design has led to a number of simulation techniques and tools which have the capability to represent aspects of the lifecycle of manufacturing systems. Although this is the case, analysis of key performance indicators (such as cost) are not very advanced when compared with other digital manufacturing simulation applications. To address this gap, this paper p...

Nanofiltration and reverse osmosis are investigated as a possible alternative to the conventional methods of Cr(VI) removal from model water and industrial effluent. The influences of feed concentration, water recovery, pH, and the coexisting anions were studied. The results have shown that retention rates of hexavalent chromium can reach 99.7% using nanofiltration membrane (NF-HL) and vary fro...

The author acknowledges the financial support for this research made available by the Lean Aircraft Initiative at MIT sponsored jointly by the US Air Force and a group of aerospace companies. All facts, statements, opinions, and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not in any way reflect those of the Lean Aircraft Initiative, the US Air Force, the sponsoring compan...

In the missing data approach to robust Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), time-frequency regions which carry reliable speech information are identified. Recognition is then based on these regions alone. In this paper, we address the problem of identifying reliable regions and propose two criteria to solve this based on negative energy ( $ s < 0 ) and SNR ( $ s s n 2 2 2 < + ). These criteria a...

Industry 4.0 factories become more and more complex with increased maintenance costs. Reducing costs by cyber-physical (CP) controllers should ensure the commercialization of the CPS for smart factory project results. We implement multi-adaptive CP controllers in the following domains: industrial robot arms, car manufacturing, steel industry, and assembly lines in general. The main objective is...

This paper describes a low-complexity and efficient speech classifier for noisy environments. The proposed algorithm utilizes the advantage of time-scale analysis of the Wavelet decomposition to classify speech frames into voiced, unvoiced and silence classes. The classifier uses only one single multidimensional feature which is extracted from the Teager energy operator of the wavelet coefficie...

The paper describes the performance of a task-oriented continuous automatic speech recognition (ASR) system in the computer game interface in noisy conditions. First, the process of designing the ASR system for Polish, based on CMU Sphinx4, is presented. Then, the concept of the computer game called Rally Navigator is described. The experiments were first run for the clean speech, and then repe...