The design of robust new interfaces that process conversational speech is a challenging research direction largely because users’ spoken language is so variable, which is especially true of children. The present research explored whether children’s response latencies before initiating a conversational turn converge with those heard in the text-to-speech (TTS) of a computer partner. A study was ...

This paper proposes a method for formal real-time systems development: Requirements and high level design decisions are time interval properties and are therefore specified in the Duration Calculus (DC), while implementations are described by timed transition systems (TTS). A link from implementation properties to the requirement and design properties is given by interpreting a DC formula in a ...

Text-to speech (TTS) systems which mainly meant for speech synthesis are, used for one of the South Indian languages called Malayalam. The paper makes a brief study on, Malayalam linguistics, and also gives a comparison between two prominent methodologies for speech synthesis, viz Concatenative based synthesis and HMM based synthesis. As a result, the paper mentions some of the problems facing ...

Antifungal activity of natural products is being studied widely. Saponins are known to be antifungal and antibacterial. We used bioassay-guided fractionation to have isolated eight steroid saponins from Tribulus terrestris L., which were identified as hecogenin-3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-->4)-beta-D-galactopyranoside (TTS-8), tigogenin-3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-->4)-beta-D-galactopyranosid...

BACKGROUND The use of prehospital chest tube thoracostomy (TT) remains controversial because of presumed increased complication risks. This study analyzed infectious complication rates for physician-performed prehospital and emergency department (ED) TT. METHODS Over a 40-month period, all consecutive trauma patients with TT performed by the flight physician at the accident scene were compare...

The design of robust new interfaces that process conversational speech is a challenging research direction largely because users’ spoken language is so variable, which is especially true of children. The present research explored whether children’s response latencies before initiating a conversational turn converge with those heard in the text-to-speech (TTS) of a computer partner. A study was ...

Abstract Background Electrodiagnostic tests (EDXTs) have been considered the gold standard method for diagnosis of tarsal tunnel syndrome (TTS); however, definitive has not yet discovered. Our aim was to develop new nerve conduction provocative techniques in double and single leg stance as well combined ankle dorsiflexion with foot eversion accompanied by compression suspected TTS. Results Rout...

Type III secretion (TTS) chaperones are critical for the delivery of many effector proteins from Gram-negative bacterial pathogens into host cells, functioning in the stabilization and hierarchical delivery of the effectors to the type III secretion system (TTSS). The plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora secretes at least four TTS effector proteins: DspE, Eop1, Eop3, and Eop4. DspE specifically int...