This work presents an automatic speech recognition system which uses a missing data approach to compensate for environmental noise. The missing, noise-corrupted components are identified using binaural features or a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. To perform speech recognition using the partially observed data, the missing components are substituted with clean speech estimates calculat...

Land cover plays a significant role in the earth system science, which reflects the influence of human activities and environmental changes (Sellers et al., 1997; IGBP, 1990; Aspinall et al, 2004). In China, Many land use/cover maps can be used in recent years derived from remote sensing observation. These data will be whether or how combined effectively to produce better land cover map that is...

Literature data relevant to the decision to allow a waiver of in vivo bioequivalence (BE) testing for the approval of new multisource and reformulated immediate release (IR) solid oral dosage forms containing ciprofloxacin hydrochloride as the only active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) are reviewed. Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride's solubility and permeability, its therapeutic use and index, pharm...

Microphone arrays are useful in meeting rooms, where speech needs to be acquired and segmented. For example, automatic speech segmentation allows enhanced browsing experience, and facilitates automatic analysis of large amounts of data. Spontaneous multi-party speech includes many overlaps between speakers; moreover other audio sources such as laptops and projectors can be active. For these rea...

A series of palladium-based catalysts of metal alloying (Sn, Pb) and/or (N-doped) graphene support with regular enhanced electrocatalytic activity were investigated. The peak current density (118.05 mA cm(-2)) of PdSn/NG is higher than the sum current density (45.63 + 47.59 mA cm(-2)) of Pd/NG and PdSn/G. It reveals a synergistic electrocatalytic oxidation effect in PdSn/N-doped graphene Nanoco...

Revalidation has begun with relicensing in 2009. All paediatricians will have to demonstrate that they meet generic standards in the General Medical Council's (GMC) Good Medical Practice for continued relicensing. Paediatricians on the specialist register will have to demonstrate that they meet the specialist standards set by the College and approved by the GMC in order to recertify. Five satis...

This paper presents a multisource speech localization method based on the generalized cross-correlation (GCC) method weighted by the phase transform (PHAT) for binaural robot audition. The direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation based on the GCC-PHAT method was extended to enable simultaneous multiple DOA estimations with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)-based weighting function. The standard K-mean...

OBJECTIVE To assess the internal validity and reliability of a multisource feedback (MSF) program by China Medical Board for resident physicians in China. METHOD Multisource feedback was used to assess professionalism, interpersonal and communication skills. 258 resident physicians were assessed by attending doctors, self-evaluation, resident peers, nurses, office staffs, and patients who com...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for the automatic time skew detection and correction for multisource audiovisual data, recorded by different cameras/recorders during the same event. All recorded data are successfully tested for potential time skew problem and corrected based on ASR-related features. The core of the algorithm is based on perceptual time-quefrency analysis with a precisi...