This paper discusses the control relevant parametric identi cation of a servo system present in a Compact Disc player. In this application an approximate closed loop identi cation problem is solved in order to come up with a linear multivariable discrete time model, suitable for control design. This identi cation problem is handled by a recently introduced two stage method. It yields an explici...

The Tonal and Speech Materials for Auditory Perceptual Assessment, Disc 1.0 audio compact disc contains a set of consonant, vowel-nucleus, consonant speech materials that have been segmented at the approximate phoneme boundaries so that the carrier phrase and consonant segments of a word can be presented to one ear and the carrier phrase and vowel segment of the word presented to the other ear....

In this paper we propose two algorithms aimed at increasing the performance of drill-across queries in data warehousing environments. The JMG algorithm is used when numeric measures of different data warehouses are usually required together. The EG-JM algorithm extends the first one also considering storage requirements. The performance tests carried out using the TPC-H benchmark showed a huge ...

Dry direct-seeding of rice is rapidly increasing in China, but variable planting depth associated with machine sowing can lead to low seedling emergence rates. Phenotype analysis of 621 rice accessions showed that mesocotyl length (ML) was induced by deep soil covering and was important in deep-sowing tolerance in the field. Here, we performed and compared GWAS using three types of SNPs (non-sy...

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The modulation method employed in the Compact Disc (CD) digital audio system codeveloped by Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and Sony Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) is described. This method, called eight-to-fourteen (EFM), is an 8 (data bit) ---> 14 (channel bit) conversion block code with a space of 3 channel bits for every converted 14 channel bits which is used to connect the blocks. T...

The composition of interactive multimedia titles is a challenge for all advanced multimedia authoring tools. When non-interactive titles were specified by aligning the media items on a temporal axis such as time lines or tracks, now interactive multimedia titles require a non-linear temporal model. Thus, authoring becomes more complex, and the structure of a title is more difficult to visualize...

Multimedia authoring tools are deservedly popular for their potentially high effective productivity and usefulness for prototyping. However the development can cause problems if these authoring tools are not properly evaluated and used. In this work we employed ToolBook® to develop several interactive multimedia coursewares and evaluated its usefullness. The results of the study showed that Too...

Domain adaptation is transfer learning which aims to generalize a learning model across training and testing data with different distributions. Most previous research tackle this problem in seeking a shared feature representation between source and target domains while reducing the mismatch of their data distributions. In this paper, we propose a close yet discriminative domain adaptation metho...

A simple and pump-free chemiluminescence immunoassay based on a compact disc (CD)-type microfluidic platform for the determination of alkylphenol polyethoxylates (APnEOs) is described. The method is based on a competitive immunoreaction of the antiAPnEOs antibody immobilized on the magnetic microbeads between APnEOs and horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-labeled APnEOs in the sample solution. The lum...