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Autism in Adulthood, 2020 Autistic masking is an emerging research area that focuses on understanding the conscious or unconscious suppression of natural autistic responses and adoption of alternatives across a range of domains. It is suggested that masking may relate to negative
Amy Pearson, Kieran Rose
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Impact of community masking on COVID-19: A cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh
Science, 2021 Description Persuading people to mask Even in places where it is obligatory, people tend to optimistically overstate their compliance for mask wearing. How then can we persuade more of the population at large to act for the greater good?
Jason Abaluck +21 more
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VoiceFilter: Targeted Voice Separation by Speaker-Conditioned Spectrogram Masking [PDF]
Interspeech, 2018 In this paper, we present a novel system that separates the voice of a target speaker from multi-speaker signals, by making use of a reference signal from the target speaker.
Quan Wang +9 more
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Facial Masking for Covid-19 - Potential for "Variolation" as We Await a Vaccine.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 Facial Masking for Covid-19 Increasing the proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections that are asymptomatic with the simple public health measure of universal masking might help make the infection less de...
M. Gandhi, G. Rutherford
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When cognition kicks in: Working memory and speech understanding in noise
Noise and Health, 2010 Perceptual load and cognitive load can be separately manipulated and dissociated in their effects on speech understanding in noise. The Ease of Language Understanding model assumes a theoretical position where perceptual task characteristics interact ...
Jerker Ronnberg +3 more
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Pre-Training With Whole Word Masking for Chinese BERT [PDF]
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 2019 Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has shown marvelous improvements across various NLP tasks, and its consecutive variants have been proposed to further improve the performance of the pre-trained language models. In this paper,
Yiming Cui +4 more
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Effects of sounds of locomotion on speech perception
Noise and Health, 2015 Human locomotion typically creates noise, a possible consequence of which is the masking of sound signals originating in the surroundings. When walking side by side, people often subconsciously synchronize their steps.
Matz Larsson +2 more
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Masking strategies to avoid the boar taint in meat products [PDF]
Journal on Processing and Energy in Agriculture, 2022 Surgery to castrate male pigs can be substituted by the manufacture of "entire males". However, the meat of whole male animals may have an unpleasant sexual odor, i.e. - boar taint.
Županjac Miloš +2 more
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Talsipühade sanditamised ja maskid bessermanide tänapäevases kalendrikombestikus [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2014 The article gives an overview of the current customs and masking in the ethnic group of Bessermens at talsipühad (old name for Christmas). The author discusses the changes that have taken place in masking traditions as well as the importance of rituals ...
Jelena Popova
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