 This paper presents a description of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) language recognition system developed for the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE). The submitted system consisted of a fusion of four core classifiers, three based on spectral similarity and one based on tokenization. Additional system improvements were achieved following the submission deadline. In a major de...

PURPOSE We assess the effect of acute hypercortisolemia induced by ACTH stimulation on seizures and EEG interictal spike activity in patients with localization-related epilepsy (LRE) and stress-related seizures. METHODS Seven patients (3 males, 4 females) with LRE and stress-related seizures were studied. All patients underwent ACTH stimulation with 0.25-0.75 mg Cosyntropin intravenously at 8...

<span lang="EN-US">A neural network-based parking system with real-time license plate detection and vacant space using hyper parameter optimization is presented. When number of epochs increased from 30, 50 to 80 learning rate tuned 0.001, the validation loss improved 0.017 training object 0.040. The model mean average precision mAP_0.5 0.988 99%. proposed also uses a regularization techni...

The classical method of evaluation of simulations surely is the batch means method, see e.g. [Bratley et al. 1987], giving confidence intervals to express the precision of the simulation results. Unfortunately, it is not suited for rare event simulation techniques, as they do not produce the necessary large batches. As an alternative, the LRE-algorithm has been introduced in [Schreiber 1984], w...

One of the most popular and better performing approaches to language recognition (LR) is Parallel Phonetic Recognition followed by Language Modeling (PPRLM). In this paper we report several improvements in our PPRLM system that allowed us to move from an Equal Error Rate (EER) of over 15% to less than 8% on NIST LR Evaluation 2005 data still using a standard PPRLM system. The most successful im...

This paper presents a new approach to reduce the dimensionality of Phone Log likelihood Ratio (PLLR) features, which have been shown to be effective for language recognition, by removing the likelihoods corresponding to less frequent phonemes. In this work, phoneme frequencies are estimated using a suitable phoneme recogniser. Following this, an i-vector framework is used to represent the total...

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) activation of cells of monocytic lineage leads to rapid and transient expression of a set of inflammatory gene products, including tissue factor (TF). This transmembrane receptor is the major cellular initiator of the blood coagulation cascades, and induced expression of TF is postulated to play a role in inflammation. Functional studies using transfected THP-1 monocyti...

This study compared the interfacial and emulsifying properties of purified saponins non-purified saponin-rich extracts Glycyrrhiza glabra, highlighted potential mechanisms by which crude surface-active compositions, such as liquorice root extract (LRE), act emulsifiers. LRE presented different fluid properties, in comparison to glycyrrhizin (PG), at equivalent concentrations. Particularly, it e...

This paper describes the problems that must be addressed when studying large amounts of data over time which require entity normalization applied not to the usual genres of news or political speech, but to the genre of academic discourse about language resources, technologies and sciences. It reports on the normalization processes that had to be applied to produce data usable for computing stat...

Phone Log-Likelihood Ratios (PLLR) have been recently proposed as alternative features to MFCC-SDC for iVector Spoken Language Recognition (SLR). In this paper, PLLR features are first described, and then further evidence of their usefulness for SLR tasks is provided, with a new set of experiments on the Albayzin 2010 LRE dataset, which features wide-band multi speaker TV broadcast speech on si...