The MPEG-4 standard provides a complete framework for hybrid coding of natural and structured sound information that permits the description of complete spatial environments by a low amount of data. A new platform, based on a virtual DSP, has been developed to optimize the MPEG decoding and pre-processing interface to feed an array of loudspeakers rendering spatial Audio by Wave Field Synthesis...

The current study sought to explore the impact of SFL-oriented register instruction on Iranian EFL learner’ writing performance with a central focus on their English proficiency level. As its secondary aim, the study delved deeply into the learners’ perception of the register-based instruction. To these ends, 50 intermediate and 50 advanced Iranian EFL learners were selected randomly and assign...

BACKGROUND For the patient-oriented medical services, it is important to assist the patient in understanding the management of cardiovascular diseases. The strategy of medication instruction is particularly important to enhance medication adherence. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS The original model was newly constructed and covers multiple factors, including those related to renin-angiotensin, metabol...

For pedestrian navigation when a precision of one step is required as for navigation of visually impaired people or if the envisaged mobile appplication needs to position POIs with a high precision, there is no real difference between indoor and outdoor navigation as an IMU-based localization system has to be used. IMU-based localization is not an absolute positioning system and proceeds by pat...