In this paper, we introduce a novel distinctive phonetic feature (DPF) extraction method that incorporates inhibition/enhancement functionalities by discriminating the DPF dynamic patterns of trajectories relevant or not. The trajectories of each DPF show a convex pattern when the DPF is relevant and a concave one when irrelevant. The proposed algorithm enhances convex type patterns and inhibit...

Diesel particulate filter (DPF) has been established as a key technology in reducing diesel particulate emission. However, technological improvements to pressure drop, durability, and insufficient collection efficiency for nano-particles are still required. Electrostatic precipitator (ESP) is another leading technology used in exhaust treatment but it is currently limited to applications for st...

FCHo1, FCHo2, and SGIP1 are key regulators of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Their μ homology domains (μHDs) interact with the C-terminal region of an endocytic scaffold protein, Eps15, containing fifteen Asp-Pro-Phe (DPF) motifs. Here, we show that the high-affinity μHD-binding site in Eps15 is a region encompassing six consecutive DPF motifs, while the minimal μHD-binding unit is two consecut...

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are important elements in bone biology. We herein report the expression profiles of zebrafish bmp3 (zbmp3) as demonstrated by real-time PCR and in situ hybridization. The expression of zbmp3 was highly detectable by real-time PCR from 1 day post-fertilization (1 dpf) to 2 weeks post-fertilization (2 wpf) and peaked at 1 wpf. For in situ hybridization experimen...

The Static DPF Simulator is a tool for evaluating the performance of the RouteBased Distributed Packet Filtering (DPF) protocol [4, 3] in a static network environment. In this document, we describe the operation of the DPF simulator and the structure of the programs in the package, and discuss certain issues related to installing and running the DPF simulator tool suite. ∗This work was supporte...

Accurate knowledge of diesel particulate filter (DPF) loading is critical for robust and efficient operation of the combined engine-exhaust aftertreatment system. Furthermore, upcoming on-board diagnostics regulations require on-board technologies to evaluate the status of the DPF. This work describes the application of radio frequency (RF) – based sensing techniques to accurately measure DPF s...

Dutch type periodic fever (DPF) is an autosomal recessive hereditary fever syndrome. Cases have been reported worldwide, the majority from France and The Netherlands. From infancy the patients suffer fever attacks that recur every 2-8 weeks, often precipitated by immunizations, infections or emotional stress. Fever lasts 2-7 days and can be accompanied by malaise, headache, diarrhea, abdominal ...

Segmentation of speech into its corresponding phones has become very important issue in many speech processing areas such as speech recognition, speech analysis, speech synthesis, and speech database. In this paper, for accurate segmentation in speech recognition applications, we introduce Distinctive Phonetic Feature (DPF) based feature extraction using a two-stage MLN (Multi-Layer Neural Netw...

The decentralized particle filter (DPF) was proposed recently to increase the level of parallelism of particle filtering. Given a decomposition of the state space into two nested sets of variables, the DPF uses a particle filter to sample the first set and then conditions on this sample to generate a set of samples for the second set of variables. The DPF can be understood as a variant of the p...