A hands-free speech recognition system and a hands-free telecommunication system are essential for realizing an intuitive, unconstrained, and stress-free human-machine interface. In real acoustic environments, however, the speech recognition performance and a speech recording performance significantly degraded because we cannot detect the user’s speech with a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) ow...

Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia spp., and members of Microsporidia are enteropathogenic parasites of humans and animals, producing asymptomatic to severe intestinal infections. To circumvent various impediments associated with current detection methods, we tested a method providing multistage purification and separation in a single, confined step. Standard real-time PCR was used as a detection me...

Increasing global demand for fresh water is driving the development and implementation of a wide variety of seawater desalination technologies driven by different combinations of heat, work, and chemical energy. This paper develops a consistent basis for comparing the energy consumption of such technologies using Second Law efficiency. The Second Law efficiency for a chemical separation process...

Separation of low boiling gas mixtures is widely concerned in process industries. Now their separations heavily rely upon energy-intensive cryogenic processes. Here, we report a pseudo-absorption process for separating low boiling gas mixtures near normal temperature. In this process, absorption-membrane-adsorption is integrated by suspending suitable porous ZIF material in suitable solvent and...

The presence and quantity of rare cells in the bloodstream of cancer patients provide a potentially accessible source for the early detection of invasive cancer and for monitoring the treatment of advanced diseases. The separation of rare cells from peripheral blood, as a "virtual and real-time liquid biopsy", is expected to replace conventional tissue biopsies of metastatic tumors for therapy ...

Abstract The NP-complete Vertex Cover problem asks to cover all edges of a graph by small (given) number vertices. It is among the most prominent graph-algorithmic problems. Following recent trend in studying temporal graphs (a sequence graphs, so-called layers, over same vertex set but, time, changing edge sets), we initiate study Multistage . Herein, given graph, goal find for each layer and ...

This paper introduces application of Reflexive Game Theory to the matter of multistage decision making processes. The idea behind is that each decision making session has certain parameters like “when the session is taking place”, “who are the group members to make decision”, “how group members influence on each other”, etc. This study illustrates the consecutive or sequential decision making p...