In this work a method for splitting continuous mixture density hidden Markov models (HMM) is presented. The approach combines a model evaluation measure based on the Maximum Mutual Information (MMI) criterion with subsequent standard Maximum Likelihood (ML) training of the HMM parameters. Experiments were performed on the SieTill corpus for telephone line recorded German continuous digit string...

OBJECTIVE To investigate which of three virtual training methods produces the largest learning effects on discrete and continuous myocontrol. The secondary objective was to examine the relation between myocontrol and manual motor control tests. DESIGN A cohort analytic study. SETTING University laboratory. PARTICIPANTS 3 groups of 12 able-bodied participants (N = 36). INTERVENTIONS Part...

The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical evidence about the effects that the management of continuous training have on employability (or employment stability) in the Spanish labour market. With this purpose a binary logit model with interaction effect is been used. The dependent variable includes two situations of the active workers: continuous and discontinuous employability. To distin...

OBJECTIVES The health benefits of high-intensity interval training in cardiac rehabilitation warrant further research. We compared the effectiveness of low-volume high-intensity interval training vs continuous aerobic exercise training in chronic heart failure. DESIGN/SETTINGS Unblinded, two arm parallel design with random assignment to exercise interventions in out-patient hospital rehabilit...

this paper deals with continuous frames and continuous riesz bases. we introduce continuous riesz bases and give some equivalent conditions for a continuous frame to be a continuous riesz basis. it is certainly possible for a continuous frame to have only one dual. such a continuous frame is called a riesz-type frame [13]. we show that a continuous frame is riesz-type if and only if it is a con...

in 2001, following the development of international standards in basic medical education, wfme appointed an international task force for development of international guidelines for postgraduate specialist training. reports of this task force were published in september 2001. these guidelines has been structured in 9 areas and 37 sub-areas. the areas of these guidelines are mission & outcomes, t...

Due to its storage and retrieval efficiency, cross-modal hashing (CMH) has been widely used for cross-modal similarity search in multimedia applications. According to the training strategy, existing CMH methods can be mainly divided into two categories: relaxation-based continuous methods and discrete methods. In general, the training of relaxation-based continuous methods is faster than discre...

OBJECTIVE Recent work suggests that delivery of continuous chest compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation is an acceptable layperson resuscitation strategy, although little is known about layperson preferences for training in continuous chest compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation. We hypothesized that continuous chest compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation education would lead to greate...