Resolution of K.K.S.I. to Sir Moses Montefiore regarding his visit to Russia

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Resolution regarding 2nd burial ground and consecration of same

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Resolution of the board on the wearing of the tallit

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Resolution prohibiting the performing of ceremonies at funerals of persons intermarried with Christians

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Resolution directing the hazan not to offer any mitzvot for any individuals but those customary

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Resolution regarding salary of Gershom Seixas

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Resolution of Trustees, K. K. S. I. to buy ground in Beaver Street, in rear of Mill Street synagogue

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Resolution asking hazan to prepare inventory of property

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Fragment of resolution regarding sale of seats

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Letter and resolution of the trustees

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Copy of resolution regarding donation of N. Judah, H. Henricks and A. Touro to building of shul

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Resolution regarding relief of sufferers of fire in Hague Street

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Robust and High-resolution Voiced/Unvoiced Classification in Noisy Speech Using A Signal Smoothness Criterion

We propose a novel technique for robust voiced/unvoiced segment detection in noisy speech, based on local polynomial regression. The local polynomial model is well-suited for voiced segments in speech. The unvoiced segments are noise-like and do not exhibit any smooth structure. This property of smoothness is used for devising a new metric called the variance ratio metric, which, after thresholding, indicates the voiced/unvoiced boundaries with 75% accuracy for 0dB global signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). A novelty of our algorithm is that it processes the signal continuously, sample-by-sample rather than frame-by-frame. Simulation results on TIMIT speech database (downsampled to 8kHz) for various SNRs are presented to illustrate the performance of the new algorithm. Results indicate that the algorithm is robust even in high noise levels.

Higher-resolution structure of the human insulin receptor ectodomain: Multi-modal inclusion of the insert domain

Insulin receptor (IR) signaling is critical to controlling nutrient uptake and metabolism. However, only a low-resolution (3.8 Å) structure currently exists for the IR ectodomain, with some segments ill-defined or unmodeled due to disorder. Here, we revise this structure using new diffraction data to 3.3 Å resolution that allow improved modeling of the N-linked glycans, the first and third fibronectin type III domains, and the insert domain. A novel haptic interactive molecular dynamics strategy was used to aid fitting to low-resolution electron density maps. The resulting model provides a foundation for investigation of structural transitions in IR upon ligand binding.