It is well known that speech utterances convey a rich diversity of information concerning the speaker in addition to related semantic content. Such information may contain speaker traits such as personality, likability, health/pathology, etc. To detect speaker traits in human computer interface is an important task toward formulating more efficient and natural computer engagement. This study pr...

This paper is a retrospective morphologic study of 7 young Boxer dogs, showing end-stage kidney lesions compatible with chronic pyelonephritis with severe segmental cortical atrophy and fibrosis, associated with chronic tubulointerstitial inflammation of varying degree. Azotemia was observed in 6 of the 7 cases. The gross kidney lesions were as follows: bilateral small kidneys with numerous seg...

This paper presents a set of novel duration features for detecting pitch accent and phrase boundaries, which depend on articulatory timing rather than segmental duration information. The features are computed from the detected syllable nuclei and boundaries, using peaks and valleys in an energy contour but also leveraging information from a simple HMM phone manner class recognizer to increase r...

May is is the third and nal progress report for Project /// (Generative Kernels and Score Spaces for Classiication of Speech) within the Global Uncertainties Programme. is project combines the current generative models developed in the speech community with discriminative classiiers. An important aspect of the approach is that the generative models are used to deene a score-space that can be us...

This paper proposes a novel paradigm of speech recognition where only the supra-segmental features are utilized. Absolute properties of speech events such as formants and spectrums are completely discarded and only the relative and differential properties of the events are extracted as phonic contrasts. The phonic contrasts are considered as supra-segmental features and they are mathematically ...

absract intestinal malrotation is a general term used for any deviation from normal embryonic gi tract rotations. this abnormality, denotes a spectrum of conditions (non rotation, incomplete rotation) that according to the severity of anatomic consequence, can result in complications found in infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood or old age. this article, reports another case of intestinal...

idiopathic or spontaneous segmental infarction of omentum is a rare disease producing acute abdominal emergency. this rare entity is in a small group of abdominal emergencies with circulatory compromise. infarction could be caused by omental torsion which could be due to adhesion of a previouse surgery or it could be spontaneous. less than 150 cases of idiopathic segmental infarction of omentum...

segmental defects of the tibia are challenging therapeutic problems for both the physician and the patient. these defects may be caused by severe trauma, infection, tumors and congenital processes. several different techniques have been described for treatment of these defects including the papineau technique, allograft reconstruction, bone transport using the ilizarov frame, free vascularized ...

BACKGROUND Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) is one of the most common childhood community-acquired pneumonias, and the chest radiograph usually shows bronchial pneumonia, segmental/lobar pneumonia, or segmental/lobar pneumonia with pleural effusion. The imbalance of Th1/Th2 function after Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is an important immunological mechanism of MPP. In this study, we aime...