In recent years, speech denoising has greatly benefited from the rapid development of neural networks.However, these models require substantial noisy-clean speech pairs for supervised training, which limits their widespread use.Although there have been attempts to train denoising networks with only noisy speech data, existing self-supervised method
Concrete is a heterogeneous, complex composite construction material.Fresh property of concrete is a critical property with significant effect on quality , cost of construction, strength, and durability.Even to this day the workability of fresh concrete is measured by empirical test, notably by slump test in spite of its drawbacks and sometimes wit
Investment to reduce flood risk for social and economic wellbeing requires quantitative evidence to guide decisions.Direct and indirect flood damages at individual household and business building levels were assessed in this study using multivariate analysis with three groups of flood damage attributes, i.e., flood characteristics, socioeconomic co
This paper provides a study of the interaction between public and private enforcement of Lithuanian antitrust law.The study refers to the Damages Directive.It has been found that private enforcement depends greatly on public enforcement of competition law.Therefore, their compatibility and balance are of great importance to antitrust policy.The Lit
ObjectiveCigarette smoking promotes endothelial dysfunction and is a prominent catalyst for vascular disease.This study employed laser doppler flowmetry (LDF) and spectral Single Inlet 2 Way Water Valve analysis to investigate the skin microvascular response to relatively mild stimulus of stretching in diabetic smokers.MethodsThe study population c