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Background noise suppression for acoustic localization by means of an adaptive energy detection approach
2008
A microphone array can be employed to localize dominant acoustic sources in a given noisy environment. This capability is successfully used in good signal to noise ratio (SNR) conditions but its accuracy decreases considerably in the presence of other background noise sources. In order to counteract this effect, a novel approach that combines the information provided by a Gaussian energy detector (GED) with the approved localization method SRP-PHAT is presented in this paper. To evaluate the presented technique, several acoustic sources (speech and impulsive sounds) were considered in a variety of different scenarios to demonstrate the robustness and the accuracy of the system proposed.
Top-quark pair + 1-jet production at next-to-leading order QCD
2008
Top-quark pair production with an additional jet is an important signal and background process at the LHC. We present the next-to-leading order QCD calculation for this process and show results for integrated as well as differential cross sections.
Background subtraction for aerial surveillance conditions
2014
International audience; The first step in a surveillance system is to create a representation of the environment. Background subtraction is widely used algorithm to define a part of an image that most time remains stationary in a video. In surveillance tasks, this model helps to recognize those outlier objects in an area under monitoring. Set up a background model on moving platforms (intelligent cars, UAVs, etc.) is a challenging task due camera motion when images are acquired. In this paper, we propose a method to support instabilities caused by aerial images fusing spatial and temporal information about image motion. We used frame difference as first approximation, then age of pixels is …
Quantitative Cerebral Blood Flow Mapping in Stroke and During Mental Stimulation After Intravenous Injection of 195mAu
1985
The new short life isotope 195mAu has some suitable features for quantitative cerebral blood flow mapping. Its half-life is 30.5 s; therefore an injection can be repeated after 3 min (six half-lives) without any need for background subtraction and with the same specific activity. The calculated whole body radiation dose after three successive administrations of 25 mCi 195mAu amounts to 50 mrad. In comparison to a 99mTc pertechnetate injection it is estimated that the dose to the patients is reduced by a factor of eight (Garcia et al. 1981).
'A place to play another music': latviešu un lietuviešu underground mūzika pārejas periodā no padomju uz pēcpadomju laiku
2015
Šī pētījuma mērķis ir atklāt kā dažādi andergraunda mūzikas aspekti mainījušies Latvijai un Lietuvai pārejot no Padomju Savienības uz postpadomju režīmu, posmā no 1985. līdz 1995. gadam. Veids, kādā noteiktas subkultūras identitāte veidojas ar kultūras palīdzību, tiek pētīts, izmantojot mutvārdu vēsturi. Veiktās intervijas ar andergraunda virziena pārstāvjiem, ļāva nonākt pie objektīvāka salīdzinājuma mūzikas lomai gan laikā – pārejā no padomju uz pēcpadomju periodu, gan telpā - starp Lietuvu un Latviju. Izstrādājot maģistra darbu tika secināts, ka Padomju Savienības periodā andergraunda mūzikas subkultūras identitāte tika veidota rīkojot koncertus, savukārt postpadomju periodā to nostiprin…
Conferencia sobre "Alternativas populares y medios de comunicación de masas"
1978
Spin and Magnetic Moment ofMg33: Evidence for a Negative-Parity Intruder Ground State
2007
We report on the first determination of the nuclear ground-state spin of $^{33}\mathrm{Mg}$, $I=3/2$, and its magnetic moment, $\ensuremath{\mu}=\ensuremath{-}0.7456(5)\text{ }{\ensuremath{\mu}}_{N}$, by combining laser spectroscopy with nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. These values are inconsistent with an earlier suggested 1 particle-1 hole configuration and provide evidence for a 2 particle-2 hole intruder ground state with negative parity. The results are in agreement with an odd-neutron occupation of the $3/2\text{ }[321]$ Nilsson orbital at a large prolate deformation. The discussion emphasizes the need of further theoretical and experimental investigation of the island of inver…
CMB Anisotropy Computations Using Hydra Gas Code
2014
From FFP6 to FFP11, we presented the advances in our Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy computations using N-body Hydra Codes. For such computations, codes without baryons were used: First sequential versions and afterwards parallel ones. With both of them we computed the weak lensing and the Rees-Sciama contributions to the CMB angular power spectrum. Using our numerical techniques, we reported a lensing effect higher than that estimated in previous papers (for very small angular scales). Our CMB computations require less interpolations and approximations than other approaches. This could explain part of our excess of power in lensing computations. Our higher time and angular res…
A New Numerical Approach to Estimate the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect
2013
Several years ago, we designed a particular ray tracing method. Combined with a Hydra parallel code (without baryons), it may compute some CMB anisotropies: weak lensing (WL) and Rees–Sciama (RS) effects. Only dark matter is fully necessary to estimate these effects. For very small angular scales, we made an exhaustive study leading to a lensing contribution slightly—but significantly—greater than previous ones. Afterwards, the same ray tracing procedure was included in a parallel Hydra code with baryons. The resulting code was then tested. This code is being currently applied to the study of the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) contributions to the CMB anisotropies. We present h…