Acoustic performance in a lightweight ventilated façade for building refurbishment: analysing the impact of variations in airborne sound insulation according to the ventilation characteristics [PDF]
, 2019 The use of double-sheet enclosures with an intermediate air chamber in façades guarantees a higher quality of acoustic insulation against external airborne noise.
Niampira Daza, Andrea +1 more
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Self-Attention Networks for Connectionist Temporal Classification in Speech Recognition
, 2019 The success of self-attention in NLP has led to recent applications in end-to-end encoder-decoder architectures for speech recognition. Separately, connectionist temporal classification (CTC) has matured as an alignment-free, non-autoregressive approach ...
Huang, Zhiheng +2 more
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Analysing Sound Environment and Architectural Characteristics of Libraries through Indoor Soundscape Framework [PDF]
, 2016 This study presents the indoor soundscape framework in detail by describing the variables and factors that form an indoor soundscape study. The main objective is to introduce a new indoor soundscaping framework and systematically explain the variables ...
Barkana +11 more
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Clay pots of Ottoman Architecture: Acoustics, structure and ventilation [PDF]
, 2020 Gülnihan Atay, Zühre Sü Gül
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Integrative Approaches for DNA Sequence‐Controlled Functional Materials
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.DNA is emerging as a programmable building block for functional materials with applications in biomimicry, biochemical, and mechanical information processing. The integration of simulations, experiments, and machine learning is explored as a means to bridge DNA sequences with macroscopic material properties, highlighting current advances and providing ...
Aaron Gadzekpo +4 more
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Acoustic Characterization of a Room: Study Case Between Simulation and a Portable Method
Archives of Acoustics, 2020 Large venues and auditoriums are commonly associated with their astounding architecture. Their acoustic quality is an essential factor in its qualification as a great and functional, or a badly designed place.
David IBARRA-ZARATE +1 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A structurally integrated multiscale hierarchical metamaterial composite (MHMC), inspired by the synergistic architecture of reinforced concrete, achieves simultaneous enhancement of thermal, electromagnetic, and mechanical functionalities. By combining a carbon black‐based mechanical metamaterial with a porosity‐graded cellulose acetate aerogel, this ...
Jeongwoo Lee +9 more
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A Double Synthetic Index to Evaluate the Acoustics of Churches
Archives of Acoustics, 2013 Several authors have proposed indices to synthesize the acoustics of a space, especially of concert halls. Meanwhile, a few studies have focused on the acoustics of worship spaces.
Umberto BERARDI
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Mitigating Architectural Mismatch During the Evolutionary Synthesis of Deep Neural Networks [PDF]
, 2018 Evolutionary deep intelligence has recently shown great promise for producing small, powerful deep neural network models via the organic synthesis of increasingly efficient architectures over successive generations.
Chung, Audrey +2 more
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Robust sound event detection in bioacoustic sensor networks
, 2019 Bioacoustic sensors, sometimes known as autonomous recording units (ARUs), can record sounds of wildlife over long periods of time in scalable and minimally invasive ways.
Bello, Juan Pablo +4 more
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