The aim of this study is to identify, clone and express a Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis specific immunogenic antigen candidate, in order to develop better reagents for diagnosis and vaccines for the protection of the host. Therefore, MAP2191 gene (a member of MAPmce5 operon) from MAP, was isolated and characterized by Bioinformatics tools and <e...

Presents a training algorithm for probabilistic neural networks (PNN) using the minimum classification error (MCE) criterion. A comparison is made between the MCE training scheme and the widely used maximum likelihood (ML) learning on a cloud classification problem using satellite imagery data.

BACKGROUND Dynamic changes of myocardial blood flow have been observed after reperfusion of an occluded coronary artery. MCE performed by intracoronary contrast injection can provide an estimate of microvascular flow. We hypothesized that MCE performed using intravenous infusion of a new generation contrast agent and electrocardiogram-gated harmonic imaging would be able to assess serial change...

Background: Destructive brain lesions result from aggression to the central nervous system and can be congenital or acquired in the postnatal period. When extensive, these lesions can produce cavitations, as in multicystic encephalomalacia (MCE). The most common etiology of MCE is neonatal hypoxia and ischemia, but there are reports of cases due to viral encephalopathies and head traumas. MCE h...

In this paper we investigate the minimum classification error (MCE) criterion for the training of distance measures for template based speech recognition. These MCE-based distance measures are illustrated with example experiments on the Wall Street Journal 5k benchmark for continuous speech recognition.

This paper presents a comparative study of two discriminative methods, i.e., Rival Penalized Competitive Learning (RPCL) and Minimum Classification Error (MCE), for the tasks of Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR). MCE aims at minimizing a smoothed sentence error on training data, while RPCL focuses on avoiding misclassification through enforcing the learning of correct class...

Suitable medium for production of milk clotting enzyme (MCE) by Bacillus subtilis (natto) Takahashi in submerged liquid-state fermentation was screened, the nutrient factors affecting MCE production was optimized by response surface methodology. The MCE production by B. subtilis (natto) Takahashi was increased significantly by 428% in the optimal medium developed. The MCE was filtered and conce...

Climate change velocity is a vector depiction of the rate of climate displacement used for assessing climate change impacts. Interpreting velocity requires an assumption that climate trajectory length is proportional to climate change exposure; longer paths suggest greater exposure. However, distance is an imperfect measure of exposure because it does not quantify the extent to which trajectori...

The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) is an intrinsic thermal response of all magnetic solids which has a direct and strong correlation with the corresponding magnetic phase transition. It has been well recognized that the magnetic phase transition can be tuned by adjusting applied pressure. Therefore, we perform the high hydrostatic pressure magnetization measurements (up to 1.4 GPa) on a recently r...

Dimensionality reduction is an important problem in pattern recognition. I n a speech recognition system, the size of the feature set is normally large in the order of 40. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the dimensionality of the feature space for efficient and effective speech recognition. Two popular methods to reduce the dimensionality of the feature space are Linear Discriminat Analysi...