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This paper presents a real-time co-simulation platform aimed to test control strategies for the management of the interaction between a smart grid and active prosumers. The main feature of the proposed framework relies on the multi-site approach that allows the decoupling between the network model and the system under test. This allows separate testing with the exchange of a limited amount of information...
Tools for protein quantitation have advanced through several phases. Common proteins in readily studied sources, albumin and globulins in plasma, were discovered in the nineteenth century and quantified by gravimetric mass determination of chemical precipitates. Finer fractionations and scales led to quantitation of increasingly less common proteins, but the method has obvious limits. Some proteins,...
We report on a portable, easily usable communication environment, ‘Sciddle’, for distributing computations over heterogenous networks of UNIX computers.
Through the monitoring of soil conditions land managers can respond rapidly to mitigate adverse events, such as extreme weather or ongoing drought. However, without an extensive system of sensors, gathering information over a large field takes an exorbitant amount of time. This mass collection of soil data would allow farm managers to study time-lapsed trends and variables within a particular region...
Zero-resource Automatic Speech Recognition (ZR ASR) addresses target languages without given pronunciation dictionary, transcribed speech, and language model. Lexical discovery for ZR ASR aims to extract word-like chunks from speech. Lexical discovery benefits from the availability of written translations in another source language [1, 2, 3]. In this paper, we improve lexical discovery even more by...
The variability of the heart rate has emerged to a popular marker for the overall condition of the circulatory system. In this paper, a novel approach for determining the heart rate by pulseoxymetric measurements inside the ear (IN-MONIT) is presented. Pulse signals from the auditory canal are mainly influenced by jaw motions. This influence can complicate the precise determination of the pulse rate...
Sentence segmentation and punctuation recovery are critical components for effective spoken language translation (SLT). In this paper we describe our recent work on sentence segmentation and punctuation recovery for three different language pairs, namely for English-to-Spanish, Arabic-to-English and Chinese-to-English. We show that the proposed approach works equally well in these very different language...
Cardiovascular diseases are among the most common causes of death in western industrial nations. It is of great interest of both physician and patient to determine the cardiovascular risk factors early in order to take preventive measures. To assist the recognition of irregularities in a subject's cardiovascular system, we develop an optic 24/7 in-ear monitoring system (IN-MONIT). The central component...
For years speech translation has focused on the recognition and translation of discourses in limited domains, such as hotel reservations or scheduling tasks. Only recently research projects have been started to tackle the problem of open domain speech recognition and translation of complex tasks such as lectures and speeches. In this paper we present the on-going work at our laboratory in open domain...
This paper presents a fundamental result on buffer sizing. Given an interconnection wire with n buffers evenly spaced along the wire, we would like to size all buffers such that the Elmore delay is minimized. It is well known that the problem can be solved by an iterative algorithm which sizes one buffer at a time. However, no closed form solution has ever been reported. In this paper, we derive a...
Several top priority research needs in the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica, can best or only be achieved by use of currently available autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). These include further exploration, ecological studies, and monitoring of recently discovered underwater volcanic vents in shallow (200 m) waters near Franklin Island, which can be used as a test-bed for Antarctic AUV work prior to...
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