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48 results for Acoustic emission

GMMSEQ clusters AE data streams, identifying cluster onsets and growth.

problem Clustering unlabeled AE data with onsets and growth information.
method Modified Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) with an objective function for AE timestamps.
result GMMSEQ provides better cluster characterization than standard methods.

Study reduces emissions in portfolios with error-prone emissions data.

problem Portfolio optimization with firm-level emissions intensities measured inaccurately.
method Introduced a scope-specific penalty operator to rescale asset payoffs based on revenue-normalized emissions intensity.
result Reduces average Scope~1 emissions intensity by roughly 92% while maintaining similar Sharpe ratios.

Study examines how market dynamics affect emissions trading prices and abatement efforts.

problem Effectiveness of emissions markets depends on regulatory standards, costs, and abatement levels.
method Radner equilibrium framework that considers intertemporal decision-making and uncertainty.
result Variations in regulatory standards, costs, and abatement levels influence allowance prices and abatement efforts.

Optimizes gradual reduction of excess carbon emissions to net-zero.

problem Achieving net-zero carbon emissions through gradual reduction of excess emissions.
method Stochastic control approach to identify optimal emission strategy under constraints.
result Identifies the emission strategy that maximizes future profit from excess emissions.

Optimal dynamic allocation of carbon allowances reduces emissions efficiently.

problem Reducing carbon emissions from firms over time with dynamic allocation and trading.
method Variational approach to solve the Stackelberg game between regulator and firms.
result Optimal policies lead to constant abatement effort and allowance price, outperforming static allocations.

In emissions trading, the initial allocation of permits is an intractable issue because it needs to be essentially fair to the participating countries. There are many ways to distribute a given total amount of emissions permits among countries, but the existing distribution methods, such as auctioning and grandfatherin…

2011-08-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Tackling climate change is at the top of many agendas. In this context, emission trading schemes are considered as promising tools. The regulatory framework for an emission trading scheme introduces a market for emission allowances and creates a need for risk management by appropriate financial contracts. In this work,…

2010-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Model estimates non-reported GHG emissions for companies using machine learning.

problem Incomplete GHG emissions reporting by companies.
method Interpretable machine learning model tailored for non-reporting companies.
result Model accurately estimates emissions for diverse company groups.

Study examines how industrial emissions evolve over time in response to various factors.

problem Understanding how firm-level emissions change over time in response to environmental regulation, economic conditions, and organizational constraints.
method Used a time-varying mean-group estimator to link emissions data with firm characteristics and macroeconomic indicators over 1992-2023.
result Firm-level characteristics and aggregate conditions have different impacts on emissions growth at different times.

Study finds carbon emissions affect stock value, but not bought emissions.

problem Determining if carbon emissions impact stock value and whether this is due to direct or indirect emissions.
method Fixed-effects analysis with propensity score weighting to control for selection bias.
result Firms with higher Scope 1 emissions have a statistically significant positive carbon premium, but Scope 2 emissions do not.

Paper analyzes how present-bias affects carbon emissions and proposes a method to mitigate it.

problem Present-bias impacts carbon emission patterns towards a net zero target.
method Stochastic control techniques adapted from insurance risk theory.
result Higher present-bias leads to excess emissions, and carbon taxes can reduce emissions but beyond a certain point have diminishing returns.

Study finds environmental liability insurance reduces industrial carbon emissions.

problem Reduction of industrial carbon emissions.
method Two-way fixed effect model using provincial (city) level panel data from 2010 to 2020.
result Environmental liability insurance reduces industrial carbon emissions at both direct and indirect levels, with varying effects.

This research uses reinforcement learning to find optimal emission offsets in greenhouse gas markets.

problem Finding optimal emission offsets in greenhouse gas markets to control excess emissions.
method Utilized reinforcement learning, specifically Nash-DQN, to estimate market Nash equilibria.
result Emitting firms can achieve significant financial savings by abiding by the Nash equilibria found in the market.

Paper aims to find joint representation between vocal tract geometry and speech sound acoustics.

problem Finding a joint latent representation between articulatory and acoustic domains for vowel sounds.
method Invertible neural network models, convolutional autoencoder, normalizing flows, semi-supervised learning.
result Satisfactory performance in articulatory-to-acoustic and acoustic-to-articulatory mapping.

Study shows integrating acoustic features in financial forecasting models can degrade performance.

problem Predicting stock market volatility from corporate earnings calls using speech features.
method Empirical investigation of acoustic feature extraction in teleconference environments using a two-stream late-fusion architecture.
result Integrating acoustic features via late fusion significantly degraded performance, reducing recall to 47.08%.

We introduce the new task of Acoustic Question Answering (AQA) to promote research in acoustic reasoning. The AQA task consists of analyzing an acoustic scene composed by a combination of elementary sounds and answering questions that relate the position and properties of these sounds. The kind of relational questions …

2019-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A model optimizes carbon emission reduction and allowance purchasing for companies.

problem Optimizing carbon emissions and allowance purchasing for companies.
method Established an optimal control model involving two stochastic processes with two control variables, converted into an HJB equation, proved existence and uniqueness of solution.
result Proved the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the HJB equation.

Study shows reducing anthropogenic emissions significantly lowers PM2.5PM_{2.5} levels but has little effect on O3O_3 in Delhi.

problem Understanding and mitigating the effects of anthropogenic emissions on air pollution in Delhi.
method Predictive modeling, causal inference, Gaussian Process modeling, Granger causality analysis.
result Reductions in anthropogenic emissions lead to significant decreases in PM2.5PM_{2.5} levels but have little effect on O3O_3.

We present a supervised neural network model for polyphonic piano music transcription. The architecture of the proposed model is analogous to speech recognition systems and comprises an acoustic model and a music language model. The acoustic model is a neural network used for estimating the probabilities of pitches in …

2015-08-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Mandatory emission trading schemes are being established around the world. Participants of such market schemes are always exposed to risks. This leads to the creation of an accompanying market for emission-linked derivatives. To evaluate the fair prices of such financial products, one needs appropriate models for the e…

2010-01-21abs ↗pdf ↗

This work tackles the problem of learning a set of language specific acoustic units from unlabeled speech recordings given a set of labeled recordings from other languages. Our approach may be described by the following two steps procedure: first the model learns the notion of acoustic units from the labelled data and …

2019-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning predicts CO2 emissions in power grids, reducing uncertainty.

problem Forecasting CO2 emission intensities in power grids.
method Developed a machine learning algorithm using LASSO, feature selection, and Softmax weighted average.
result Marginal emissions are independent of DK2 zone conditions, suggesting external generators.

Model predicts methane emissions from oil sands tailing ponds, suggesting significant environmental impact.

problem Estimating methane emissions from inactive oil sands tailing ponds.
method Physics constrained machine learning model using real-time weather data and laboratory experiments.
result Active oil sands tailing ponds emit between 950 to 1500 tonnes of methane per year, equivalent to 6000 gasoline vehicles.

Investor and firm optimize sustainable investment and emission reduction through a dynamic game.

problem Optimal sustainable investment and emission reduction in a dynamic game setting.
method Formulated as a nonzero-sum dynamic game, solved via variational inequalities and verified in a diffusive setup.
result Nash equilibria show moving boundaries increasing with emission abatement, triggered by both investor and firm actions.

Deep learning predicts road GHG emissions with speed, density, and past ERs.

problem Predicting GHG emissions from road networks to mitigate environmental impact.
method Developed a deep learning framework using LSTM networks with exogenous variables.
result LSTM with speed, density, GHG ER, and in-links speed from previous minutes performs best.

We present a novel deep Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) model for acoustic modelling in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). We term our contribution as a TC-DNN-BLSTM-DNN model, the model combines a Deep Neural Network (DNN) with Time Convolution (TC), followed by a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM), and a fi…

2015-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds cherry-picking load shaping strategies outperforms others in reducing grid CO2 emissions.

problem Lack of detailed counterfactual data makes it hard to assess load shaping strategies' effectiveness.
method Calibrated granular ERCOT simulations for counterfactual analysis of load shaping strategies.
result LMP-based load shaping outperforms other strategies in reducing grid CO2 emissions.

Geometric model explains music perception combining neuroscience and acoustics.

problem Rationalize and predict psycho-acoustic phenomena in music perception.
method Combining neuroscientific theories with acoustic observations, a geometric model of the space of all chords is created.
result The geometric model allows for rigorous studies of psychoacoustic quantities like roughness and harmonicity.