With the growing trend toward remote security verification procedures for telephone banking, biometric security measures and similar applications, automatic speaker verification (ASV) has received a lot of attention in recent years. The complexity of ASV system and its verification time depends on the number of feature vectors, their dimensionality, the complexity of the speaker models and the ...

Background Automation of mechanical ventilation allows for reduction variation in patient management and has the potential to provide increased safety by strict adherence computer driven ventilator protocols. Methods: A retrospective, observational study compared a group 196 general ICU patients managed exclusively on automated ventilation, adaptive support (ASV), another 684 usual, non-automat...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The combination of daclatasvir (DCV) and asunaprevir (ASV) has demonstrated a high sustained virologic response at 12 weeks (SVR12) and a low rate of adverse events in previous clinical studies. The purpose of this study was to clarify the results of treatment and side effects in Korean patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype Ib infection. METHODS We retrospecti...

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems are vulnerable to spoofing attacks using speech generated by voice conversion and speech synthesis techniques. Commonly, a countermeasure (CM) system is integrated with an ASV system for improved protection against spoofing attacks. But integration of the two systems is challenging and often leads to increased false rejection rates. Furthermore, the ...

Many surgeons consider PTFE to be the conduit of choice for above-knee femoropopliteal bypass grafting, since PTFE is relatively easy to implant and spares autogenous saphenous vein (ASV) for subsequent peripheral or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). This practice has recently been challenged, as some studies have suggested that ASV may exhibit superior patency in certain patient subgroup...

AIM To investigate the influence of interferon-free antivirus therapy on lipid profiles in chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1b (HCV1b) infection. METHODS Interferon-free antiviral agents were used to treat 276 patients with chronic HCV1b infection, and changes in serum lipids of those who achieved sustained virologic response (SVR) were examined. The treatment regimen included 24 wk of dacl...

Recombinant plasmids containing cellular fibronectin (CFN) cDNA sequences have been constructed and cloned in Escherichia coli The cloned sequences from one plasmid were shown to be complementary to CFN mRNA by linking this DNA to diazobenzyloxyniethylcellulose, incubating with total mRNA from chick embryo fibroblasts (CEF) under DNA-RNA hybridization conditions, and demonstrating that the RNA ...

Hager’s data that no significant change in mortality was observed regardless of tidal volume once plateau pressure was less than 28 cm H2O. Drs. Dongelmans and Schultz also referred to the article by Gajic et al., which was a retrospective review with plateau pressures available on only a few patients to illustrate the potential of large tidal volumes causing acute lung injury. The tidal volume...

Unruptured aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva (ASV) is a rare congenital anomaly. We describe a case of multiple unruptured ASV involving right and left aortic sinuses causing congestive cardiac failure in a 16-year-old boy who underwent successful surgical repair.