Combination of Multiple Acoustic Models with Multi-scale Features for Myanmar Speech Recognition

We proposed an approach to build a robust automatic speech recognizer using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Deep CNNs have achieved a great success in acoustic modelling for automatic speech recognition due to its ability of reducing spectral variations and modelling spectral correlations in the input features. In most of the acoustic modelling using CNN, a fixed windowed feature patch corresponding to a target label (e.g., senone or phone) was used as input to the CNN. Considering different target labels may correspond to different time scales, multiple acoustic models were trained with different acoustic feature scales. Due to auxiliary information learned from different temporal scales could help in classification, multi-CNN acoustic models were combined based on a Recognizer Output Voting Error Reduction (ROVER) algorithm for final speech recognition experiments. The experiments were conducted on a Myanmar large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) task. Our results showed that integration of temporal multi-scale features in model training achieved a 4.32% relative word error rate (WER) reduction over the best individual system on one temporal scale feature

Research on Self-balancing Two Wheels Mobile Robot Control System Analysis

The paper presents the research on self-balancing two-wheels mobile robot control system analysis with experimental studies. The research problem in this work is to stabilize the mobile robot with self-control and to carry the sensitive things without failing in a long span period. The main objective of this study is to focus on the mathematical modelling of mobile robot from laboratory scale to real world applications. The numerical expression with mathematical modelling is very important to control the mobile robot system with linearization. The fundamental concepts of dynamic system stability were utilized for maintaining the stability of the constructed mobile robot system. The controller design is also important for checking the stability and the appropriate controller design is proportional, integral,and derivative – PID controller and Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR). The steady state error could be reduced by using such kind of PID controller.The simulation of numerical expression on mathematical modeling was conducted in MATLAB environments. The confirmation results from the simulation techniques were applied to construct the hardware design of mobile robot system for practical study. The results from simulation approaches and experimental approaches are matched in various kinds of analyses. The constructed mobile robot system was designed and analyzed in the control system design laboratory of Yangon Technological University (YTU)

Multicenter phase II study of sequential radioembolization-sorafenib therapy for inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma

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Reports of studies supported by Grant-in-Aid for Research from the Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University

プロジェクト研究 Grant-in-Aid for Project Research ・ミャンマー沿岸における有害・有毒植物プランクトンの発生・増殖機構に関する調査研究...Su MYAT, Maung Saw Htoo THAW, 藤瀬里紗, Khin Ko LAY, 小池一彦 ・東日本大震災における水産業・漁村の復興戦略に向けた提言作り : 東アジア海域社会の地震・津波復興に関する比較研究を通じて...山尾政博 基盤研究サポート Grant-in-Aid for Fundamental Research ・大脳によらない恐怖学習 : 魚類小脳に注目して...吉田将之 ・チョコレートモデル油脂結晶の分子レベルその場観察...本同宏成 ・広島市近郊における伝統的青果物流通主体の形成・展開と産地維持機能に関する研究...細野賢治，矢野泉，高梨子文恵 ・釣り餌として海外から流通される水生動物の移入と定着に関する基礎的研究...斉藤英俊 ・低い割合で給与するイタリアンライグラスサイレージの栽培時施肥方法の違いが泌乳中・後期牛の乳生産に及ぼす影響...黒川勇

Political transition and emergent forest-conservation issues in Myanmar.

Political and economic transitions have had substantial impacts on forest conservation. Where transitions are underway or anticipated, historical precedent and methods for systematically assessing future trends should be used to anticipate likely threats to forest conservation and design appropriate and prescient policy measures to counteract them. Myanmar is transitioning from an authoritarian, centralized state with a highly regulated economy to a more decentralized and economically liberal democracy and is working to end a long-running civil war. With these transitions in mind, we used a horizon-scanning approach to assess the 40 emerging issues most affecting Myanmar's forests, including internal conflict, land-tenure insecurity, large-scale agricultural development, demise of state timber enterprises, shortfalls in government revenue and capacity, and opening of new deforestation frontiers with new roads, mines, and hydroelectric dams. Averting these threats will require, for example, overhauling governance models, building capacity, improving infrastructure- and energy-project planning, and reforming land-tenure and environmental-protection laws. Although challenges to conservation in Myanmar are daunting, the political transition offers an opportunity for conservationists and researchers to help shape a future that enhances Myanmar's social, economic, and environmental potential while learning and applying lessons from other countries. Our approach and results are relevant to other countries undergoing similar transitions

Political transition and emergent forest-conservation issues in Myanmar.

Political and economic transitions have had substantial impacts on forest conservation. Where transitions are underway or anticipated, historical precedent and methods for systematically assessing future trends should be used to anticipate likely threats to forest conservation and design appropriate and prescient policy measures to counteract them. Myanmar is transitioning from an authoritarian, centralized state with a highly regulated economy to a more decentralized and economically liberal democracy and is working to end a long-running civil war. With these transitions in mind, we used a horizon-scanning approach to assess the 40 emerging issues most affecting Myanmar's forests, including internal conflict, land-tenure insecurity, large-scale agricultural development, demise of state timber enterprises, shortfalls in government revenue and capacity, and opening of new deforestation frontiers with new roads, mines, and hydroelectric dams. Averting these threats will require, for example, overhauling governance models, building capacity, improving infrastructure- and energy-project planning, and reforming land-tenure and environmental-protection laws. Although challenges to conservation in Myanmar are daunting, the political transition offers an opportunity for conservationists and researchers to help shape a future that enhances Myanmar's social, economic, and environmental potential while learning and applying lessons from other countries. Our approach and results are relevant to other countries undergoing similar transitions

Immunogenicity and efficacy of oral vaccines in developing countries: lessons from a live cholera vaccine

Oral vaccines, whether living or non-living, viral or bacterial, elicit diminished immune responses or have lower efficacy in developing countries than in developed countries. Here I describe studies with a live oral cholera vaccine that include older children no longer deriving immune support from breast milk or maternal antibodies and that identify some of the factors accounting for the lower immunogenicity, as well as suggesting counter-measures that may enhance the effectiveness of oral immunization in developing countries. The fundamental breakthrough is likely to require reversing effects of the 'environmental enteropathy' that is often present in children living in fecally contaminated, impoverished environments

EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION ON MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS OF AYEYARWADDY FARMERS DEVELOPMENT BANK

The objectives of the study are to identify motivational factors and to analyze employee satisfaction of Ayeyarwaddy Farmers Development Bank (A Bank). Both primary data and secondary data are used in the study. To get the primary data, 112 respondents of 350 employees (30 percent) who are working in head office, 7 branches, and the responsible person of human resources department in Yangon are selected to achieve the objectives. The two-factors theory are used in this study. Hygiene factors include working condition, pay and security, company policies, supervisors and interpersonal relationship. Among hygiene factors, working condition is the highest mean score and pay and security is the lowest mean score. In this study, motivators include achievement, recognition, responsibility, work itself, and personal growth. Among the motivators, it was found that the employee satisfaction on achievement is the highest mean score and satisfaction on recognition is the lowest mean score in A Bank. With regards of the overall satisfaction on hygiene factors and motivators, most of the employees within Yangon area of A Bank are fairly satisfied

Transparent thin film transistors by inkjet printing process

Thin Film Transistor (TFT) technology has contributed to the advancement of the display industry for the past decades. Nowadays, TFT technology has been widely applied in Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (AMLCD) and Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED), etc. Oxide semiconductors, such as Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (InGaZnO), because of its large bandgap and excellent physical and chemical properties, offer an alternative as the channel layer material for transparent TFT. IGZO is transparent in the visible region due to the large band gap and has a high mobility, even for an amorphous structure due to s-electron conduction. High mobility is essential for current-driving devices such as organic light-emitting diodes and for building integrated electronics/drivers for system-on-glass. Although TFTs fabricated using magnetron sputtering, atomic laser deposition and pulse laser deposition techniques have shown good performance, their process cost is still very high. Therefore, inkjet printing method was attempted to achieve low cost, high performance IGZO based TFTs. In this project, bottom-gate, bottom-contact IGZO based TFTs have been fabricated, the active layer was deposited using inkjet printing and Indium Tin Oxide was sputtered as electrode. By varying the thickness of the active layer and annealing temperatures, the TFT fabricated can achieve a current on-off ratio of 9.625E+05, field effect mobility of 0.493cm2 /V.s and threshold voltage of -4.3V. In this report, the effect of channel layer thickness on the performance of IGZO based TFT, impact of annealing temperatures and passivation are studied and discussed.Bachelor of Engineerin

A Fast Encryption Scheme Based on Chaotic Maps

&nbsp;In this paper, a fast encryption scheme based on chaotic maps is proposed. Firstly the dynamical 8&times;8 S-box is produced by using logistic map and 2D standard map.&nbsp; Secondly a sequence of pseudo-random bytes is generated by using 2D chaotic cat map to index the entries of the S-box.&nbsp; The output bytes from the S-box are XOR-ed with the plaintext to produce the ciphertext.&nbsp; The results of simulations show that this encryption scheme is secure and fast enough to be used in real-time image encryption applications.</p