The ability for humans to understand and process the emotional content of speech is unsurpassed by simulated intelligent agents. Beyond the linguistic content of speech are the underlying prosodic features naturally u...
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The ability for humans to understand and process the emotional content of speech is unsurpassed by simulated intelligent agents. Beyond the linguistic content of speech are the underlying prosodic features naturally understood by humans. The goal of emotional speech processing systems is to extract and classify human speech for these so called paralinguistic elements. Presented here is a proof-of-concept system designed to analyze speech in real-time for coupled interactions with spiking neural models. Based on proven feature extraction algorithms, the resulting system provides two interface options to running simulations on the NeoCortical Simulator. Some basic tests using new recordings as well as a subset from a published emotional database were completed with promising results.
BACKGROUND: The detection of motor evoked potential is utilized to explore neuromuscular finger coordination. The influence of transcranial magnetic stimulation on finger force has been investigated mainly on a singl...
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BACKGROUND: The detection of motor evoked potential is utilized to explore neuromuscular finger coordination. The influence of transcranial magnetic stimulation on finger force has been investigated mainly on a single finger, and only time-dependent increased target finger force has been detected in the finger force task. OBJECTIVE: To explore the neural mechanism of finger force coordination in the motor cortex by observing the influence of various finger coordination patterns and patterns of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-induced finger force changes. DESIGN, TIME AND SETTING: Neurophysiological and behavioral study was performed at the Biomedical engineering Laboratory of Chongqing University from April to June 2008. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 10 healthy, university students, comprising 5 males and 5 females, aged 21-23 years, voluntarily participated in this study. All participants were right-handed, with normal or corrected vision. Individuals with upper limb complaints or other musculoskeletal disorders were excluded. METHODS: A target force-tracking task was conducted on the index finger, the index and middle fingers, and four fingers (index, middle, ring, and little), respectively. Target force trace in a single trial consisted of a 6-second ramp phase, a 20-second constant phase, and a 6-second drop phase. During experimentation, an unpredictable single-pulse TMS (120% motor threshold) was applied to the primary motor cortex (M1) in each phase. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Changes in peak force induced by TMS were obtained for each finger pattern during each force-tracking phase. Differences in force changes were tested between different finger pattems with regard to ramp, constant, and drop phases of target force. RESULTS: Under ramp, constant, and drop phases of target force, the increase in magnetic stimulation-induced finger forces changes positively correlated with the number of fingers involved in the force tracking task. The magnetic stimulation-ind
Tunable Ka band filters based on graded barium strontium titanate (BST) have been investigated in terms of their associated parasitics, tunability, and temperature dependence of capacitance. The simulation results sho...
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The clinical data stored in the health information system can be categorized as two types including structuralized data and non-structuralized ones. In the paper, a data extraction system is developed to assist data r...
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The use of MEMS to study the effect of mechanical compression on neurogenesis has been demonstrated. Polydimethylsiloxane-(PDMS)-based stretchable platforms were used on neurosphere assay to investigate the role of me...
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The use of MEMS to study the effect of mechanical compression on neurogenesis has been demonstrated. Polydimethylsiloxane-(PDMS)-based stretchable platforms were used on neurosphere assay to investigate the role of mechanical forces on the formation of radial glial processes, neuronal generation and migration. To induce mechanical compression on neurospheres, The PDMS culturing substrate is patterned with micron-sized wells. Neurospheres are cultured on the prestretched device. After 48 hours, when neurospheres are grown to the size of the well's width, the stretched substrate is released. The experimental results showed that applied mechanical compression on neural stem cells cultured as neurospheres could be a factor accelerating the radial glial formation, which is associated to neurogenesis and neuronal migration.
Bubbles are powerful and complex sound scatterers in water because of the impedance mismatch at each water-air/gas interface. Bubbles are formed by natural processes that include rainfall, gas emission from the sea be...
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Bubbles are powerful and complex sound scatterers in water because of the impedance mismatch at each water-air/gas interface. Bubbles are formed by natural processes that include rainfall, gas emission from the sea bed, boat wakes, living or decomposing organisms, and wave breaking- the latter being the dominant cause of bubble entrainment in the surf zone. Despite the complications of sound propagation in bubble-populated water, some species of cetaceans have been observed to hunt efficiently in shallow coastal waters and in biologically active rivers where bubbles persist. In contrast, the performance of man-made sonar systems has always been greatly handicapped by this phenomenon and improvement is necessary. How cetaceans manage to overcome the problem of echolocating through bubbles clouds is still largely unknown. However, if we can gain a more complete understanding of the ways in which bubbles respond to echolocation signals transmitted by cetaceans, this might provide insight into the strategies they use for detecting prey under such conditions, or, indeed, how they manipulate the 'bubble screen' effect to catch fish. New insights could then contribute to the development of improved, bio-mimetic sonar systems for use in difficult environments such as the littoral zone. This paper presents a model describing the backscatter of marine mammal bio-mimetic sonar signals from bubble clouds. Echolocation signals from a dolphin and a porpoise were modeled, and we simulated the backscatter response of single bubbles from a discretized bubble population distribution when driven by each type of echolocation click. Responses from individual bubbles with various radii were then used to find the total bubble cloud backscatter response. This paper explores the backscatter from bubble clouds using two types of bio-mimetic echolocation pulses that have different signal characteristics.
We demonstrate GaInN multiple quantum well (MQW) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) having ternary GaInN quantum barriers (QBs) instead of conventional binary GaN QBs for a reduced polarization mismatch between QWs and QBs ...
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Photonic crystal cavities with tunable surface area via multiple-hole defects were investigated for increased resonance wavelength shins upon exposure to variable-index analytes. Sensitivity was improved by 10% compar...
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Photonic crystal cavities with tunable surface area via multiple-hole defects were investigated for increased resonance wavelength shifts upon exposure to variable-index analytes. Sensitivity was improved by 10% compa...
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