Associations between birth weight and CVD in adult life are supported by experiments showing that undernutrition in fetal life programmes blood pressure. In rats, the feeding of a maternal low-protein (MLP) diet during gestation programmes hypertension. The present study aimed to assess the potential for a nutritional insult to impact across several generations. Pregnant female Wistar (F0) rats...

Front-end features computed using Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) have recently attracted much interest, but are a challenge to scale to large networks and very large training data sets. This paper discusses methods to reduce the training time for the generation of MLP features and their use in an ASR system using a variety of techniques: parallel training of a set of MLPs on different data sub-...

In this paper we present our latest investigation on multilingual bottle-neck (BN) features and its application to rapid language adaptation to new languages. We show that the overall performance of a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) network improves significantly by initializing it with a multilingual MLP. Furthermore, ASR performance increases on both, on those languages which were used for multil...

The present paper deals with the continuous work of extending multi-dimensional limiting process (MLP) for higher-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods to compute compressible Navier-Stokes equation. From the previous works, it was observed that the MLP shows several superior characteristics, such as efficient controlling of multi-dimensional oscillations and accurate capturing of complex f...

Short-term cepstral features have long been chosen as standard features for speaker recognition thanks to their relevance and effectiveness. In contrast, discriminative features, calculated by a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) from much longer stretches of time, have been gradually adopted in automatic speech recognition (ASR). It has been shown that augmenting short-term cepstral features with lo...

This paper presents an application of computer The implementation and operation of the system is vision in a real-world uncontrolled environment found at BHP Steel Port Kembla. The task is visual identification of torpedo ladles at a Blast Furnace wlahdilceh. is achieved by reading numbers attached to each 3. IMPLEMENTATION Number recognition is achieved through use of feature extraction using ...

INTRODUCTION Medical-legal partnerships perform advocacy services for vulnerable and underserved populations, who are burdened disproportionately by legal and medical problems. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness and projected sustainability of a rural medical-legal partnership (MLP). METHODS Five years of baseline data and three years of follow-up data were analyzed using descripti...

We introduce two new models which are obtained through the modification of the well known methods MLP and cascade correlation. These two methods differ fundamentally as they employ learning techniques and produce network architectures that are not directly comparable. We extended the MLP architecture, and reduced the constructive method to obtain very comparable network architectures. The great...

We compare two classifier approaches, namely classifiers based on Multi Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) and Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), for use in a face verification system. The comparison is carried out in terms of performance, robustness and practicability. Apart from structural differences, the two approaches use different training criteria; the MLP approach uses a discriminative criterion, wh...