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A Low Cost Wireless Acoustic Sensor for Ambient Assisted Living Systems

Applied Sciences, 2017
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) has become an attractive research topic due to growing interest in remote monitoring of older people. Development in sensor technologies and advances in wireless communications allows to remotely offer smart assistance and ...
Miguel A. Quintana-Suárez, David Sánchez-Rodríguez, Itziar Alonso-González, Jesús B. Alonso-Hernández   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Distributed Remote Vector Gaussian Source Coding for Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks [PDF]

, 2014
In this paper, we consider the problem of remote vector Gaussian source coding for a wireless acoustic sensor network. Each node receives messages from multiple nodes in the network and decodes these messages using its own measurement of the sound field ...
Bech, Soren, Jensen, Soren Holdt, Naylor, Patrick, Ostergaard, Jan, Zahedi, Adel   +4 more
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Detection of Anomalous Noise Events for Real-Time Road-Traffic Noise Mapping: The Dynamap’s project case study

Noise Mapping, 2018
Environmental noise is increasing year after year, especially in urban and suburban areas. Besides annoyance, environmental noise also causes harmful health effects on people.
Alías Francesc, Alsina-Pagès Rosa Ma, Orga Ferran, Socoró Joan Claudi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estudo da adsorção de surfactante catiônico na matriz inorgânica fosfato de nióbio hidratado Adsorption study of the surfactant in inorganics matrices

Química Nova, 2009
This work describes the study the adsorption of a cationic surfactant, cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) in the hydrous niobium phosphate matrix.
Paulo Henrique Fernandes Pereira, Maria Lucia C. P. da Silva   +1 more
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Memory and Meaning: Civil Rights in Lee\u27s Backyard [PDF]

, 2013
I walked up the long winding path named for Mary Custis and her family home. As I ascended the steps I stopped to quickly pay my respects to Robert Todd Lincoln. But he wasn\u27t my quarry for the day. As I came to the top of the steps, Robert E.
Rudy, John M.
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A Comprehensive Survey of Animal Identification: Exploring Data Sources, AI Advances, Classification Obstacles and the Role of Taxonomy

International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
With the rapid development of entity recognition technology, animal recognition has gradually become essential in modern society, supporting labour‐intensive agriculture and animal husbandry tasks. Severe problems such as maintaining biodiversity can also benefit from animal identification technology.
Qianqian Zhang, Khandakar Ahmed, Nalin Sharda, Hua Wang, Zhiyuan Qi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Description of Anomalous Noise Events for Reliable Dynamic Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Soundscapes

Applied Sciences, 2017
Traffic noise is one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. European authorities have driven several initiatives to study, prevent and reduce the effects of exposure of population to traffic.
Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró
doaj   +1 more source

Managerial Work in a Practice-Embodying Institution - The role of calling, the virtue of constancy [PDF]

, 2013
What can be learned from a small scale study of managerial work in a highly marginal and under-researched working community? This paper uses the ‘goods-virtues-practices-institutions’ framework to examine the managerial work of owner-directors of ...
A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, A Malka, A Rego, A Rego, A Wrzesniewski, A Wrzesniewski, A Wrzesniewski, AC Wicks, AK Kau, AM Grant, AM Grant, B Schwartz, B Van De Ven, C Crockett, C Peterson, CM Horvarth, D Bright, D Dawson, D Dawson, DT Hall, E Demerouti, G Krogh Von, G Moore, G Moore, G Moore, I Mangham, J Annas, J Dobson, J Dobson, J Dunne, J Kay, J Nicholas, J Sandberg, JS Bunderson, KB Brewer, KS Cameron, L Salter, M Conroy, M Conroy, M Kwint, M Parker, M Velasquez, MB Crawford, ME Palanski, N King, N Park, P Hogan, PM Achtemeier, R Atkinson, R Beadle, R Beadle, R Beadle, R Chun, R Sennett, Ron Beadle, S Kempster, T Kasser, Y Carmeli   +65 more
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Range-Based Localization Algorithm for Next Generation Wireless Networks Using Radical Centers

IEEE Access, 2016
Localization is an important issue in next generation wireless networks (NGWNs), such as 5G cellular networks, IEEE 802.11ax WiFi networks, and wireless ad hoc sensor network (WASNs).
Yeong-Sheng Chen, Der-Jiunn Deng, Chun-Chien Teng   +2 more
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Sit Down Together at a Table of Brotherhood : Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial [PDF]

, 2011
As we walked along the tidal basin back toward the Smithsonian Metro Station, I began to cry. Just a few tears, here and there, welled in my eyes. It wasn\u27t the monument or the quotes. It wasn\u27t the deep feelings I had looking at his face.
Rudy, John M.
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