This paper reports on the results of a research investigating whether rhythmic features, in terms segmental timing properties, are object speaker’s adjustments after exposure to conversational partner. In context dialects contact, this is crucial understand attributes may bring about language variation and change. human-machine interactions, can benefit design spoken dialogues systems achieve h...

In the present study we investigated the functional organization of sublexical auditory perception with specific respect to auditory spectro-temporal processing in speech and non-speech sounds. Participants discriminated verbal and nonverbal auditory stimuli according to either spectral or temporal acoustic features in the context of a sparse event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging ...

Ask-Upmark Kidney is a rare disease complex which is characterised by segmental renal hypoplasia and is usually associated with hypertension. We report the clinical, laboratory and radiological features of a case, which was managed effectively with antihypertensive drugs. Pathological examination of kidney revealed features consistent with AskUpmark Kidney.

This paper describes a new scheme for robust speech recognition systems where visual information and acoustic features are merged. Using as robust unit the « pseudo-diphone », we compare a global Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and a Master/Slave HMM through a centisecond preprocessing and through a segmental one. We confirm by experimentation the importance of articulatory features in clean and nois...

background: segmental vitiligo is a small subset albeit persistent form of focal vitiligo with dermatomal distribution and resistant to medical therapy. in recent years, surgical therapy as hair follicle autograft transplantation has been a hot topic in management of segmental vitiligo. in this study, we evaluated the efficacy of this method in segmental vitiligo lesions. methods: the study rec...

The features or mechanisms of dyshidrosis have not been sufficiently clarified. Neither has the difference between hyperhidrosis and hypohidrosis. To clarify the features and mechanisms of dyshidrosis (hyperhidrosis and hypohidrosis) in syringomyelia, the clinical features focusing on hidrosis of 30 patients with syringomyelia and Chiari malformation located from a syringomyelia database were p...

In this paper we study various front-end features, modeling and adaptation algorithms on the Aurora 3 databases, including auditory, moment, and AM-FM modulation features, context-dependent digit models, segmental K-means training, discriminative training, and model adaptations. The evaluation results on Aurora 3 are presented with a brief summary of our Aurora 2 results.

We describe here the main features of 'Peptoniphilus urinimassiliensis' strain Marseille-P3195T (= CSUR P3195) that was isolated from the urine sample of a 37-year-old man who had just received a kidney transplant for genetic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.