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The impact of temporal synchronisation imprecision on TRF analyses
Human sensory perception requires our brains to extract, encode, and process multiple properties of the sensory input. In the context of continuous sensory signals, such as speech and music, the measured electrical neural activity synchronises to properties such as the acoustic envelope, a phenomenon referred to as neural tracking. The ability of measuring neural tracking with non-invasive neurophysiology constitutes an exciting new opportunity for applied research. For example, it enables the objective assessment of cognitive functions in challenging cohorts and environments by using pleasant, everyday tasks, such as watching videos. However, neural tracking has been mostly studied in controlled, laboratory environments guaranteeing precise synchronisation between the neural signal and the corresponding labels (e.g., speech envelope). There exist various challenges that could impact such a temporal precision in, for instance, out-of-lab scenarios, such as technology (e.g., wireless data acquisition), mobility requirements (e.g., clinical scenarios), and the task (e.g., imagery). Aiming to address this type of challenge, we focus on the predominant scenario of continuous sensory experiments involving listening to speech and music. First a temporal response function analysis is presented on two different datasets to assess the impact of trigger imprecision. Second, a proof-of-concept re-alignment methodology is proposed to determine potential issues with the temporal synchronisation. Finally, a use-case study is presented that demonstrates neural tracking measurements in a challenging scenario involving older individuals with neurocognitive decline in care homes.
Significance Statement
Human cognitive functions can be studied by measuring neural tracking with non-invasive neurophysiology as participants perform pleasant, everyday tasks, such as listening to music. However, while recent work has encouraged the use of this approach in applied research, it remains unclear how robust neural tracking measurements can be when considering the methodological constraints of applied scenarios. This study determines the impact of a key factor for the measurement of neural tracking: the temporal precision of the neural recording. The results provide clear guidelines for future research, indicating what level of imprecision can be tolerated for measuring neural tracking with speech and music listening tasks in both laboratory and applied settings. Furthermore, the study provides a strategy to assess the impact of imprecision in the synchronisation of the neural recording, thus developing new tools for applied neuroscience
More on Meta-Stable Brane Configuration
We describe the intersecting brane configuration of type IIA string theory
corresponding to the meta-stable nonsupersymmetric vacua in four dimensional
N=1 supersymmetric SU(N_c) gauge theory with an antisymmetric flavor, a
conjugate symmetric flavor, eight fundamental flavors, m_f fundamental flavors
and m_f antifundamental flavors. This is done by analyzing the N=1
supersymmetric SU(2m_f-N_c+4) magnetic gauge theory with dual matters and the
corresponding dual superpotential.Comment: 20 pp, 3 figures; Pages 11,12, and 14 improved; to appear in CQ
Acute Spinal Cord Injury Alters the Bioavailability of Oral and Intraperitoneal Cyclosporine-A in Contused Rats
Closing the Light Gluino Window in Supersymmetric Grand Unified Models
We study the light gluino scenario giving special attention to constraints
from the masses of the light CP-even neutral Higgs , the lightest chargino
, and the second lightest neutralino , and from
the decay. We find that minimal supergravity, with
a radiatively broken electroweak symmetry group and universality of scalar and
gaugino masses at the unification scale, is incompatible with the existence of
a light gluino.Comment: 12 pages (plain tex), 1 figure not included, VAND-TH-94-7-R. An error
is corrected. Modifications to the text and the figure are mad
AlbayzĂn-2014 evaluation: audio segmentation and classification in broadcast news domains
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13636-015-0076-3Audio segmentation is important as a pre-processing task to improve the performance of many speech technology tasks and, therefore, it has an undoubted research interest. This paper describes the database, the metric, the systems and the results for the AlbayzĂn-2014 audio segmentation campaign. In contrast to previous evaluations where the task was the segmentation of non-overlapping classes, AlbayzĂn-2014 evaluation proposes the delimitation of the presence of speech, music and/or noise that can be found simultaneously. The database used in the evaluation was created by fusing different media and noises in order to increase the difficulty of the task. Seven segmentation systems from four different research groups were evaluated and combined. Their experimental results were analyzed and compared with the aim of providing a benchmark and showing up the promising directions in this field.This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Government and the European Union (FEDER) under the project TIN2011-28169-C05-02 and supported by the European Regional Development Fund and the Spanish
Government (âSpeechTech4All Projectâ TEC2012-38939-C03
Meta-Stable Brane Configurations of Multiple Product Gauge Groups with Orientifold 6 Plane
Starting from an N=1 supersymmetric electric gauge theory with the gauge
group SU(N_c) x SU(N_c') x SU(N_c'') with fundamentals for each gauge group,
the bifundamentals, a symmetric flavor and a conjugate symmetric flavor for
SU(N_c), we apply Seiberg dual to each gauge group, obtain the N=1
supersymmetric dual magnetic gauge theories with dual matters including the
gauge singlets, and describe the intersecting brane configurations of type IIA
string theory corresponding to the meta-stable nonsupersymmetric vacua of this
gauge theory. We also discuss the case where a symmetric flavor is replaced by
an antisymmetric flavor. Next we apply to the case for N=1 supersymmetric
electric gauge theory with the gauge group SO(N_c) x SU(N_c') x SU(N_c'') with
flavors for each gauge group and the bifundamentals. Finally, we describe the
case where the orientifold 6-plane charge is reversed.Comment: 98pp, 18figures; redundant piece removed and to appear in IJMP
Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy
The global rush to develop the \u2018blue economy\u2019 risks harming both the marine environment and human wellbeing. Bold policies and actions are urgently needed. We identify five priorities to chart a course towards an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable blue economy
Clonagem e expressĂŁo das regiĂ”es gĂȘnicas codificadoras do peptĂdeo maduro nos hormĂŽnios BMP15 e GDF9 de clones bovinos.
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Deformations of conformal theories and non-toric quiver gauge theories
We discuss several examples of non-toric quiver gauge theories dual to
Sasaki-Einstein manifolds with U(1)^2 or U(1) isometry. We give a general
method for constructing non-toric examples by adding relevant deformations to
the toric case. For all examples, we are able to make a complete comparison
between the prediction for R-charges based on geometry and on quantum field
theory. We also give a general discussion of the spectrum of conformal
dimensions for mesonic and baryonic operators for a generic quiver theory; in
the toric case we make an explicit comparison between R-charges of mesons and
baryons.Comment: 51 pages, 12 figures; minor corrections in appendix B, published
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