Author(s): Zhang Y; Sares A; Delage A; Lehmann A; Deroche M;

For individuals with hearing loss, even successful speech communication comes at a cost. Cochlear implants transmit degraded information, specifically for voice pitch, which demands extra and sustained listening effort. The current study hypothesized that abnormal pitch patterns contribute to the additional listening effort, even in non-tonal language nat ...

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Author(s): Lew EC; Sares A; Gilbert AC; Zhang Y; Lehmann A; Deroche M;

Purpose: Greater recognition of the impact of hearing loss on cognitive functions has led speech/hearing clinics to focus more on auditory memory outcomes. Typically evaluated by scoring participants' recall on a list of unrelated words after they have heard the list read out loud, this method implies pitch and timing variations across words. Here, we ...

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Author(s): Xue X; Yuan B; Yi Y; Zhang Y; Yue X; Mu L;

This paper proposes a novel multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) connectivity preservation controller, suitable for scenarios with bounded actuation and limited communication range. According to the hierarchical control strategy, controllers are designed separately for the position and attitude subsystems. A distributed position controller is developed, in ...

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Author(s): Mu L; Sun W; Zhang Y; Feng N; Xue X; Li Q;

In industrial process monitoring, it is always a challenging and practical problem to analyze the causes of the system fault by isolating true fault variables from vast amounts of process data. However, the phenomenon of smearing effect occurs by using the traditional contribution analysis-based isolation methods since the defined isolation indices of dif ...

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Author(s): Zhang Y; Ogurtsov S; Vasilev V; Kishk AA; Caratelli D;

We review dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) designs. This review examines recent advancements across several categories, specifically focusing on their applicability in array configurations for millimeter-wave (mmW) bands, particularly in the context of 5G and beyond 5G applications. Notably, the off-chip DRA designs, including in-substrate and compact D ...

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Author(s): Flores-Anderson AI; Cardille J; Azad K; Cherrington E; Zhang Y; Wilson S;

State-of-the-art methodologies to monitor deforestation rely mostly on optical satellite observations. High-density optical time series can enable the detection of deforestation almost as soon as it occurs. However, deforestation monitoring in the tropics can be hindered by high cloud coverage, and thus the responsiveness of managers, enforcement agencies ...

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Author(s): Sares AG; Gilbert AC; Zhang Y; Iordanov M; Lehmann A; Deroche MLD;

Auditory memory is an important everyday skill evaluated more and more frequently in clinical settings as there is recently a greater recognition of the cost of hearing loss to cognitive systems. Testing often involves reading a list of unrelated items aloud; but prosodic variations in pitch and timing across the list can affect the number of items rememb ...

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Author(s): Wu J; Xu Z; Zhang Y; Su CY; Wang Y;

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) show broad application prospects in the area of soft robots since they offer merits of fast response, large deformation, light weight and high energy conversion efficiency. Practical soft robot applications would usually require the study on the modeling and control of the DEA. However, the DEA has a memory property, ...

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Author(s): Li J; Chroumpi T; Garrigues S; Kun RS; Meng J; Salazar-Cerezo S; Aguilar-Pontes MV; Zhang Y; Tejomurthula S; Lipzen A; Ng V; Clendinen CS; Tolic N; Grigoriev IV; Tsang A; Mäkelä MR; Snel B; Peng M; de Vries RP;

Fungi play a critical role in the global carbon cycle by degrading plant polysaccharides to small sugars and metabolizing them as carbon and energy sources. We mapped the well-established sugar metabolic network of Aspergillus niger to five taxonomically distant species (Aspergillus nidulans, Pen ...

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Author(s): Zhang Y; Malaval F; Lehmann A; Deroche MLD;

There is an increasing interest in the field of audiology and speech communication to measure the effort that it takes to listen in noisy environments, with obvious implications for populations suffering from hearing loss. Pupillometry offers one avenue to make progress in this enterprise but important methodological questions remain to be addressed befor ...

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Author(s): Chen Q; Allot A; Leaman R; Islamaj R; Du J; Fang L; Wang K; Xu S; Zhang Y; Bagherzadeh P; Bergler S; Bhatnagar A; Bhavsar N; Chang YC; Lin SJ; Tang W; Zhang H; Tavchioski I; Pollak S; Tian S; Zhang J; Otmakhova Y; Yepes AJ; Dong H; Wu H; ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been severely impacting global society since December 2019. The related findings such as vaccine and drug development have been reported in biomedical literature-at a rate of about 10 000 articles on COVID-19 per month. Such rapid growth signif ...

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