... guitar tones using a combination of physical modelling and warped linear predictive coding is outlined in Section Section analyzes the results from simulated coding scenarios using the recorded ... sequencing program using only virtual instruments and software effects, the file size (including simple instrument and effect model algorithms) is on the order of 500 kB For WLP in Physical Modelling ... coding for MiniDisc, reprinted from the 93rd Audio Engineering Society Convention, San Francisco, Calif, USA, 1992 [19] J O Smith, “Efficient synthesis of stringed musical instruments,” in Proc International...
... existence theorems, including theorems about various points like fixed points, coincidence points, intersection points, maximal elements, and other results as KKM theorems, minimax theorems, etc., ... based on linear structures For instance, the KKM-Fan mapping (Fan [33]) was extended into the S-KKM mapping (e.g., Chang and Zhang [15], Chang and Yen [16], Chang, Huang, Jeng and Kuo [17]) In terms ... theorems in nonlinear analysisandapplications is based on the papers (Q2), (Q3), (Q4), (Q6), (Q7); Chapter 2: “Nonlinear existence theorems for mappings on product GFCspaces andapplications ...
... little solvent and combines of sampling and extraction into one step In addition, it is easily automated to allow high-throughput analysisand does not encounter the plugging or channeling problems ... sampling techniques, including field [93-94], in situ [95-97] and air sampling [98] Drawbacks associated with SPME are mainly related to the extraction phase and the desorption process One inherent ... for water and urine samples and 100 times for plasma samples [107-114] MEPS can be fully automated, combing extraction and injection steps as an online sampling device by the same syringe It is...
... Environmental analysis includes five steps: environmental sampling and handling, sample preparation, analyte identification and quantification (by analytical instruments), statistical evaluation and action ... solution and remained in this phase After extraction, the extract was withdrawn by another microsyringe, and introduced into a CE system for analysis This method gave high enrichment In addition, ... worldwide against insects, fungi and weeds They are increasingly used instead of organochlorine and organophosphorous pesticides due to their lower environmental persistence However, since they...
... AEROBIOLOGY, IMAGEANALYSISAND ALLERGENICITY OF POLLEN AND SPORES IN SINGAPORE ONG TAN CHING 2004 AEROBIOLOGY, IMAGEANALYSISAND ALLERGENICITY OF POLLEN AND SPORES IN SINGAPORE ONG TAN CHING B Sc ... being my mentor in statistics and Wong Fei Ling for teaching me the ropes in mycological research and Dr Adrian Loo, Dr Bi Xuezhi and Dr Shang Huishen for the guidance and helpful problem solving ... (Salvaggio et al., 1971) Leuschner and Boehm in Switzerland (1979) also showed that symptoms can be induced by pollen grains remaining in the mucosal membrane and be continually active for some time...
... University of Singapore for the award of research scholarship and Institute of Chemical and Engineering Science Ltd for the financial support to carry out the research work reported herein Finally, ... Teck-Chia, Ms Poon Yin-Fun and Dr Zhang Wei-Guang for their support and useful discussions; Dr Liu Shou-Ping, Mr Zou Yong, Mr Zhang Sheng, Xia Hai-Bing and Cheng Da-Ming for their advices and friendship ... Chapter Synthesis of positively charged single-isomer cyclodextrins 33 Approached for cyclodextrins 33 2 Synthesis of single-isomer positively charged cyclodextrins 37 2 Synthesis...
... entering (in whole or in part) the cavity and forming noncovalent host-guest inclusion complexes Almost all applications of CDs involve complexation The mechanism of inclusion complexation in CE ... recognition is obtained mainly by charge-charge interactions, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic inclusion and π-π interactions These interactions can be either attractive or repulsive Proteins also have ... of both anions and cations in one single run, using CZE in moving boundary electrophoresis In moving boundary electrophoresis, the separation system is filled with a so-called leading electrolyte...
... sounds, traffic, wind, rain, machines such as air conditioners, typing, footsteps, sawing, breathing, ocean waves, motors, and chirping birds Using this definition, at some window length any signal ... The remaining parts of this thesis are organized as follows In Chapter 2, we introduce some background knowledge, including sound synthesis technology, linear predictive coding (LPC) and hidden ... Summary In this thesis we present two applications of sound modeling /synthesis in sound texture modeling and packet loss recovery In both applications we build a model for specific sounds and resynthesize...
... existence theorems, including theorems about various points like fixed points, coincidence points, intersection points, maximal elements, and other results as KKM theorems, minimax theorems, etc., ... omit ”wrt H” in the terminology The concept of λ -quasiconvexity in Definition 1.3.2 generalizes the corresponding notions in [22, 69, 88] The following notion is defined by Ding Definition 1.3.3 ... based on linear structures For instance, the KKM-Fan mapping (Fan [33]) was extended into the S-KKM mapping (e.g., Chang and Zhang [15], Chang and Yen [16], Chang, Huang, Jeng and Kuo [17]) In terms...
... clamping ax Workpiece acceleration in the x direction during machining ay Workpiece acceleration in the y direction during machining az Workpiece acceleration in the z direction during machining ... of knowledge in the area of machining fixtures including some robotic grasping work relevant to this thesis The first section introduces prior work on modeling andanalysis of machining fixture-workpiece ... propagation in integrated machiningassembly systems Shen and Duffie [44] analyzed the uncertainty in coordinate transformation in manufacturing systems due to a variety of error sources including the...
... arbitrary face image as a linear combination of some number of prototypes and used this representation (called linear object class) for image recognition, coding, andimagesynthesisIn their representative ... very expensive and need to be used in controlled environments In contrast, image- based approaches have low cost and can be used in 14 3D FACE PROCESSING: MODELING, ANALYSISANDSYNTHESIS more ... PROCESSING: MODELING, ANALYSISANDSYNTHESIS motion analysis presented in Chapter 4, and facial motion synthesis presented in Chapter Figure 3.3 The neutral face and deformed face corresponding to the...
... the nodes and edges of PlaNet tained In section we present a synthesis model for PlaNet to hold up the inferences that we draw in section Finally we conclude in section by summarizing our contributions, ... corresponding to the nodes in the set VL and the other corresponding to the nodes in the set VC the best value being somewhere between 10 and 30 The distribution peaks roughly at 21 indicating that ... column indicating the average inventory size and the right column the breakpoint x Inferences Drawn from the Analysis of PlaNet In most of the networked systems like the society, the Internet,...
... DATA HANDLING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -VOLUME Advanced scientific computing in BASIC with applicationsin chemistry, biology and pharmacology DATA HANDLING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ... PRonSsING Classical mthods Interpolation Smmthing Differentiation Integratim Spline functions in signal prccessing Interpolating splines Smmthing splines Fourier transform spectral methods Continuous ... coefficients and interpolated valws Local cubic interpolation 5-pint cubic smoothing by Savitzky and Golay Determination of interpolating cubic spline Function value, derivatives and definite integral...
... systems for in vivo clinical use, automation of image acquisition andimage anal ysis, and 3D visualization and data extraction The range of applications described in this book within seemingly disparate ... microscopy, to in vestigate pheonmena that can have wide ranging consequences for studying the processes of clotting, inflammation, wound healing, and angiogenesis Finally in Chapter 11, a thorough introduction ... rapidly growing method in ophthalmology for in vivo examination of the eye, and an emerging modality in the areas of dentistry, endoscopy, andin the food sciences Also, it is certain that the...
... zier and Splines inImage Processing e and Machine Vision Sambhunath Biswas • Brian C Lovell B´ zier and Splines inImage e Processing and Machine Vision Sambhunath Biswas Indian Statistical Institute ... application inimage processing and machine vision, and this justifies the title of the book In writing this book, therefore, we introduce the Bernstein polynomial at the very beginning, since its ... discussed in this chapter for approximating a set of data points in the 32 Bernstein Polynomial and B´zier-Bernstein Spline e discrete domain are clear and explicit, and provide insight to handle...
... finger posture" summarizes the authors' recent work toward developing ways to record fine motor control tasks involving manipulation of objects requiring fine motor control of the hand and fingers ... years They range from simple monitoring of daily activities, for the purpose of assessing mobility and level of independence in individuals, to integrating miniature sensors to enhance the function ... quantitative data in the settings that matter the most, i.e the home and the community A number of clinical applications of wearable systems in physical medicine and rehabilitation emerged in the past...
... conventional scrambling and secure scrambling, respectively In practical systems, after spreading and scrambling, passband PAM (pulse amplitude modulation) is performed Mapping information bearing bits ... the training sequence with an independent short scrambling sequence The training sequence and its scrambling sequence are designed subject to the following constraints (1) The short scrambling sequence ... in part by MSU IRGP and Cyper Security Initiative REFERENCES 10−3 10−4 10 15 20 25 SNR (dB) Separated training with PN scrambling Separated training with secure scrambling Nonseparated training...
... 24 holistic features (without using subregion features) for each view And images of nearby views are also included in the training of certain view (i.e., in obtaining the PCLDA basis for each view) ... views (0◦ , −60◦ ) and (0◦ , 60◦ ) Figure is obtained before adding neighboring images in training Figure can be helpful to understand which training views are used for each registered view while ... Fogelman-Soulie, and T S Huang, Eds., pp 446–456, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 1998 G Park, Y Baek, and H.-K Lee, “A ranking algorithm using dynamic clustering for content-based image retrieval,” in Proceedings...
... Table of training and test sets B Entire image set used for training and evaluation Btr Subset of B, used for training the SVMs and computing 2 contextual information Subdivided to Btr and Bv Bte ... j in images of the training set that belong to subdomain Dl to the total number of the images of the afore-mentioned training set that belong to subdomain Dl 5.1 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND INITIAL ... level indexing In this paper, a learning approach to knowledge-assisted imageanalysisand classification is proposed that combines global and local information with explicitly defined knowledge in...
... divided into four parts These are input image normalization, edges enhancement using filters, edges finding and linking to rectangles using connected component analysis (CCA) and plate candidate finding ... The original license plate candidate image is shown in (a) and prominent edges in the LP candidate are shown in (b) using single level decomposition 14 Advances in Wavelet Theory and Their Applications ... organized in five main sections denoted as Signal Processing, Electrical Systems, Fault Diagnosis and Monitoring, Image Processing andApplicationsin Engineering The wavelet method is used in this...