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Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: wav audio files - background music (2022)
Data

A zip folder with sub-folders containing .wav files of background music and speech-shaped noise (SSN) (control masking noise). As used with Tang & Cooke's (2016) HEGP OIM (high energetic glimpse proportion objective intelligibility metrics) and in a... Read More about Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: wav audio files - background music.

Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: Listening experiment data and statistical analyses spreadsheets. (2022)
Data

Excel work book with data collected and collated from a speech-in-noise test, and associated statistical analyses.

Background music is cited as one of the four main problems that listeners complain about with regards to foreground speech audibili... Read More about Effect of Background Music Arrangement and Tempo on Foreground Speech Intelligibility: Listening experiment data and statistical analyses spreadsheets..

A Novel RBFNN-CNN Model for Speaker Identification in Stressful Talking Environments (2022)
Journal Article
Nassif, A. B., Alnazzawi, N., Shahin, I., Salloum, S. A., Hindawi, N., Lataifeh, M., & Elnagar, A. (2022). A Novel RBFNN-CNN Model for Speaker Identification in Stressful Talking Environments. Applied Sciences, 12(10), 4841. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12104841

Speaker identification systems perform almost ideally in neutral talking environments. However, these systems perform poorly in stressful talking environments. In this paper, we present an effective approach for enhancing the performance of speaker i... Read More about A Novel RBFNN-CNN Model for Speaker Identification in Stressful Talking Environments.

Assessing Soil Degradation and Risk in Relation to Metal Pollution in Hindon River Water-Irrigated Soils of Western Uttar Pradesh of India (2022)
Journal Article

Soil degradation with metal pollution was assessed in polluted river water-irrigated soils. Human health risk from ingestion of metal by way of eating of edible portion of plants, raised on these soils, was predicted based on the free ion activity in... Read More about Assessing Soil Degradation and Risk in Relation to Metal Pollution in Hindon River Water-Irrigated Soils of Western Uttar Pradesh of India.

Characterisation of a Novel Acetyl Xylan Esterase (BaAXE) Screened from the Gut Microbiota of the Common Black Slug (Arion ater) (2022)
Journal Article
Madubuike, H., & Ferry, N. (2022). Characterisation of a Novel Acetyl Xylan Esterase (BaAXE) Screened from the Gut Microbiota of the Common Black Slug (Arion ater). Molecules, 27(9), 2999. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27092999

Acetyl xylan esterases (AXEs) are enzymes capable of hydrolysing the acetyl bonds in acetylated xylan, allowing for enhanced activity of backbone-depolymerizing enzymes. Bioprospecting novel AXE is essential in designing enzyme cocktails with desired... Read More about Characterisation of a Novel Acetyl Xylan Esterase (BaAXE) Screened from the Gut Microbiota of the Common Black Slug (Arion ater).

Naturally occurring resistance to Varroa destructor in the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) (2022)
Thesis
Grindrod, I. Naturally occurring resistance to Varroa destructor in the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera). (Thesis). University of Salford

The honey bee is an important social insect; it along with other bee species can be regarded as a keystone organism. The pollination services bees provide are invaluable not only in terms of human health and food security, with an estimated worth of... Read More about Naturally occurring resistance to Varroa destructor in the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera).