BACKGROUND Myocarditis is a cause of a new-onset dilated cardiomyopathy phenotype in children, with small studies reporting high rates of recovery of left ventricular (LV) function. METHODS AND RESULTS The presenting characteristics and outcomes of children with myocarditis diagnosed clinically and with biopsy confirmation (n=119) or with probable myocarditis diagnosed clinically or by biopsy...

In this paper, we investigate the use of Multiple Background Models (M-BMs) in Speaker Verification (SV). We cluster the speakers using either their Vocal Tract Lengths (VTLs) or by using their speaker specific Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (MLLR) super-vector, and build a separate Background Model (BM) for each such cluster. We show that the use of M-BMs provide improved performance whe...

TELEPHO E-BASED TEXT-DEPE DE T SPEAKER VERIFICATIO In this thesis, we investigate model selection and channel variability issues on telephone-based text-dependent speaker verification applications. Due to the lack of an appropriate database for the task, we collected two multi-channel speaker recognition databases which are referred to as text-dependent variable text (TDVT-D) and textdependent ...

micrornas (mirnas) are short, endogenous non-coding rnas that function as guide molecules to regulate transcription of their target messenger rnas. several methods including low-density qpcr arrays are being increasingly used to profile the expression of these molecules in a variety of different biological conditions. reliable analysis of expression profiles demands removal of technical variati...

Short Messaging Service (SMS) texts behave quite differently from normal written texts and have some very special phenomena. To translate SMS texts, traditional approaches model such irregularities directly in Machine Translation (MT). However, such approaches suffer from customization problem as tremendous effort is required to adapt the language model of the existing translation system to han...

High-throughput cDNA microarray technology allows for the simultaneous analysis of gene expression levels for thousands of genes and as such, rapid, relatively simple methods are needed to store, analyze, and cross-compare basic microarray data. The application of a classical method of data normalization, Z score transformation, provides a way of standardizing data across a wide range of experi...

In this article, an end-to-end system was proposed for the challenge task of disease named entity recognition (DNER) and chemical-induced disease (CID) relation extraction in BioCreative V, where DNER includes disease mention recognition (DMR) and normalization (DN). Evaluation on the challenge corpus showed that our system achieved the highest F1-scores 86.93% on DMR, 84.11% on DN, 43.04% on C...

This paper presents equipment and procedures for on-card (in-situ) performance testing of biometric on-card comparison implementations using pre-existing databases of biometric samples. A DTW-based on-line signature on-card comparison implementation serves as an example test object. The test results presented are false match rates and false non-match rates over a range of decision thresholds on...

This paper presents our approach to detect plagiarism in the PAN’10 competition. To accomplish this task we applied a method which aims at detecting external plagiarism cases. The method is specially designed to detect crosslanguage plagiarism and is composed by five phases: language normalization, retrieval of candidate documents, classifier training, plagiarism analysis, and post-processing. ...

In the practice guideline “Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Hepatitis C: An Update ” (HEPATOLOGY 2009:49 (4): 1335-1374; DOI: 10.1002/hep.22759), two errors have been corrected in the online version. 1. The Treatment Objectives and Outcomes section contained an error which has been corrected to read: “Short-term outcomes can be measured biochemically (normalization of serum ALT levels), ...