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... application are studies based on applications of theory to real life situation A sizable fraction of articles investigated the factors contributing to the success of Six Sigma implementation For ... discussion about the findings from surveys and case studies, and framework consolidation, finally in conclusion, implications, limitations, and future research are discussed An illustration of the ... affect the implementation of Six Sigma in service organizations Chapter Introduction Chapter is about the discussion and framework consolidation The discussion is based on CSFs, CTQs, KPIs, and...

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... section, we use the numerical example to demonstrate the effectiveness of IHMPT in the suppression of cross-terms for multicomponent CPS For convenience, we assume that the simulated signal consists ... imaging algorithm of ship target based on the IHMPT is discussed in Section 4; the results for simulated and measured data are given in Section 5; Section is the conclusion for the paper = A0 exp j ... transform (IHMPT) is presented to estimate the parameters of it This method requires only one-dimensional maximization, and the parameters of each component can be estimated efficiently Then, the high-quality...

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... representation of QMF bank [14, 15], the constrained optimization problem (31) is converted into an unconstrained one The use of lattice QMF representation for converting the constrained optimization ... spread of wavelet in time This definition of time-duration gives a measure of time localization of the wavelet [25] Now, the above definition of time duration is used for selecting the support of the ... Criterion for Obtaining Optimal WP Tree Based on Bark Scale The criterion minimizes a cost function and allocates an optimal set of number of terminating nodes at each level of decomposition so...

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... change with time due to environmental factors, so full elimination of its effect and prediction of its variability are impossible Therefore, calibration procedures based upon signal processing algorithms ... Sarkar, “Minimum norm mutual coupling compensation with applications in direction of arrival estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol 52, no 8, pp 2034–2041, 2004 [8] Z Huang, ... IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol 31, no 5, pp 785–791, 1983 [3] B Friedlander and A J Weiss, “Direction finding in the presence of mutual coupling,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas...

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... direction as nondirectional (Non) Therefore, the final types of the edge direction are EDT = {Hor, Ver, Non} In the proposed edge direction estimation, the diagonal directional edge is considered ... color Edge Region directional difference direction classification interpolation plane estimation Edge region EDT = {Ver, Hor, non} Spatial correlation Edge-pattern region Flat region Bayer color ... direction is not determined, the region is considered as a nonsharp edge region and these regions are investigated again in the following region classification step: Classification 3.1.2 Region Classification:...

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... demonstration of the viability of IEEE 802.11b based inter-vehicle communications,” in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of ... these conditions are only present in this segment, since the rest of roads have a clear space on one side This fact enables the reflection of signals on the various walls Moreover, the second interesting ... the previous section, the range of the available access points and VANET links are estimated considering a simplification of the driving speed and the time of connection This section presents more...

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... 1, one iteration TOA, case 2, one iteration TOA, case 3, one iteration TOA, case 1, two iterations TOA, case 2, two iterations TOA, case 3, two iterations Figure 11: Average BER performance of ... 23]), to the best of our knowledge, none of these SIC methods considered the benefit of using TOA as an ordering criterion In addition to proposing an SIC receiver with ordering based on TOA, we also ... User 1, case 2, one iteration User 2, case 2, one iteration User 3–8, case 2, one iteration User 1, case 2, two iterations User 2, case 2, two iterations User 3–8, case 2, two iterations User 2,...

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... which employ better conditioned and higher-order bilinear matrices The paper is organized as follows Section gives introductory information on Hermite-Gaussian functions, basics of how to generate ... Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ( ICASSP ’07), vol 3, pp 1385–1388, 2007 [12] B W Dickinson and K Steiglitz, “Eigenvectors and functions of ... approximation to the second differentiation matrix,” Signal Process In press [15] G G Golub and C F Van Load, Matrix Computations, The Johns Hopkins University Press, London, UK, 3rd edition, 1993...

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... discrimination is presented in Section Section contains an analysis of the feature’s discrimination ability Section presents the experimental setup for speech/music segmentation Descriptions of experiments ... The segmentation and classification algorithms were benchmarked on a large dataset, with a classification accuracy of about 95% and a segmentation accuracy of about 97% A computationally-efficient ... to phoneme transitions (e.g., consonant to vowel) On the other hand, music and environmental sounds can be periodic or monotonic, and have more constant rates of change versus that typical for...

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... conjunction with Pitch Determination Algorithms (PDA) in which the V/UV decision is made as part of the pitch determination problem, whereas the second includes solutions based on the value of ... “Voiced/unvoiced determination of speech signal in noisy environment using harmonicity measure based on instantaneous frequency,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, ... silence/background noise, stationary unvoiced, nonstationary unvoiced, onset, nonstationary voiced, or stationary voiced A multilevel approach is used for the classification decision, starting with a VAD,...

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... solution k → ∞ of period not larger that converges to a unique limit oscillation x kT τ → z∗ τ as Z0 T ; for all τ ∈ 0, T , under the modified constraints C4 The condition of convergence of the ... and of a dynamic nature Those dynamic systems consist of two coupled parts, one being of a continuoustime nature being modeled by an ordinary differential equation and the other one being of a ... initial conditions of 2.1 – 2.4 being constrained to the balls xc ≤ r, xd ≤ r where the radius r is arbitrary but compatible with the validity of the constraints C on Σ 3.1 Exponential Stability of...

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... for a different given AR parameter (p = 10) Given AR of s1 Given AR of s2 Given AR of s3 Given AR of s4 MSPE of s1 MSPE of s2 MSPE of s3 MSPE of s4 0.9974 0.9559 0.9459 0.9596 1.9918 0.5176 0.2581 ... “Early recurrences of atrial fibrillation after electrical cardioversion: a results of fibrillation-induced electrical remodeling of the atria?” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol ... The MCPE of different sources for different given AR parameter (p = 20) MCPE of s1 MCPE of s2 MCPE of s3 MCPE of s4 Given AR of s1 −0.0002 0.5861 0.7927 0.9818 0.0001 0.1844 0.1928 Given AR of s2...

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... detection and parameters estimation of multicomponent LFM signal can be realized by the CPF The principle of detection and parameters estimation of single LFM signal is presented For multicomponent ... Transactions on Signal Processing, vol 46, no 3, pp 571–586, 1998 [6] L Qi, R Tao, S Zhou, and Y Wang, “Detection and parameter estimation of multicomponent LFM signal based on the fractional Fourier ... some irregular variations of the measured MSEs, this is because of the weakness of the second component compared with the noise at low SNRs, and the influence of the first component exists simultaneously...

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... expectation maximization (EM) method In this paper, we introduce the utilization of the GMM of the acoustic transfer function based on the ML estimation approach to deal with a room impulse response ... talker localization process For test data, the talker position θ is estimated based on discrimination of the acoustic transfer function, where the GMMs of the acoustic transfer function are used First, ... 50.4 40 42.6 30 10 50 Number of training data (words) 3-position 5-position 7-position 9-position Figure 7: Comparison of the different number of training data function is trained by (16) using...

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... Lipschitz continuity of N with respect to the second argument On the other hand, if N x, y x for any x, y ∈ X, then Definition 2.1 reduces to the usual concepts of strong monotonicity, relaxed monotonicity, ... Lipschitz continuity It is known that a maximal monotone operator need not be H-monotone for some H, and if W is H-monotone and H is strictly monotone, then W is maximal monotone Definition 2.2 see ... nonlinear implicit variational inequalities Several existence and uniqueness results of solutions for the general nonlinear implicit variational inequalities involving H-monotone, strongly monotone,...

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... corresponds to one of the 2k l possible values of xt This allows the degree of reliability of the network function to vary based upon the state of a gene’s predecessors Note that 2k is only an ... pattern recognition, where the cost function for the classifier is a sum of the resubstitution error of the empirical-error-rule classifier and a function of the VC dimension of the model family ... resubstitution error directly measures the deviation of the model from the data and the VC dimension term penalizes complex models The difficulties are that one must determine a function of the VC dimension...

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... face of oversegmentation corresponding to the presence of impulsive noise OCO penalizes too strongly the presence of oversegmentation: for example, it Oversegmentation: dilatation of the contours ... 6: Evolution of two evaluation criteria in the face of oversegmentation due to the dilatation of contours 0.8 17 Evaluation criteria (1 %) Oversegmentation results EURASIP Journal on Image and ... study for the comparison of contour segmentation results The goal of this experiment will be first of all to know if the comparison of multiple contour segmentation results of a single image can...

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... a function of γ0 for the user i = (exponential correlation model) 10−1 5.1 Exponential Correlation Model In this example, the amplitudes of the spatial correlations among the elements of the BS ... probability of SLR as performance metrics which are based on the concept of leakage power [7, 8] In particular, the novelty of our work lies on the facts that we first derive an approximation of the ... task of improving the SINR (5) The latter fact can be verified numerically Note that the beamformer based on maximization of (3) can also be designed for the cases where only the knowledge of second-order...

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... comparison to the conventional single-antenna BS in Section 4, and computer-simulation results are shown to verify our experimental results Finally, we conclude this paper in Section Considerations ... decoding Randomization Digital demodulation Slot concatenation Randomization Slot concatenation DL_DSP Puncturing Pilot insertion Channel coding Subcarrier arrange Digital modulation Bit interleaver ... Oberg, and A Rydberg, “Effects of finite o weight resolution and calibration errors on the performance of adaptive array antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol 37, no...

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... represents the mean of xg 2.3 Extraction of Shape Information and Time Scaling To extract shape information of time-varying gene expression, the derivative of the expression trajectory is considered Since ... approach based on the Variational Bayes Expectation Maximization (VBEM) algorithm is proposed to determine the number of clusters and better performance than MDL and BIC criterion has been demonstrated ... formulation of (11) suggests using the number of clusters that maximize the marginal likelihood, or in the context of VBEM, the lower bound F(·) Instead of solely basing the determination of the...

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