This paper describes the ASR system proposed by the SODA consortium to participate in the ASR task of the French REPERE evaluation campaign. The official test REPERE corpus is composed of TV shows. The entire ASR system was produced by combining two ASR systems built by two members of the consortium. Each ASR system has some specificities: one uses an i-vector-based speaker adaptation of deep n...

Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide but data from Tunisia are limited. The aim of this research was to describe the epidemiology, pathology and clinical features of lung cancer in Central Tunisia. All lung cancer cases diagnosed during a 15-year period were analyzed based on the data of the Cancer Registry of the Center of Tunisia. Five-year age-specific rates, world age-standardize...

Spatial modulation (SM) is a particularly important form of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), which uses both symbols and antenna indices to carry information. In this paper, avoid the high cost circuit complexity SM, we consider hybrid SM system with precoding transmitter architecture, combining digital precoder an analog precoder. such system, carried out secure transmit subarray selecti...

background: cardiovascular diseases are viewed worldwide as one of the main causes of death.this study aims to report the burden of ischemic heart diseases (ihds) in iran by using data of the global burden of disease (gbd) study, 1990-2010. materials and methods: the gbd study 2010 was a systematic eff ort to provide comprehensive data to calculate disability-adjusted life years (dalys) for dis...

INTRODUCTION Despite tobacco control and health promotion efforts, the incidence rates of mouth cancer are increasing across most regions in India. Analysing the influence of age, time period and birth cohort on these secular trends can point towards underlying factors and help identify high-risk populations for improved cancer control programmes. METHODS We evaluated secular changes in mouth...

Developmental changes in speech production introduce age-dependent spectral and temporal variability in the speech signal produced by children. Such variabilities pose challenges for robust automatic recognition of children’s speech. Through an analysis of age-related acoustic characteristics of children’s speech in the context of automatic speech recognition (ASR), effects such as frequency sc...

Detailed research is carried out to ascertain the inhibitory effect of waste glass powder (WGP) on alkali-silica reaction (ASR) expansion induced by waste glass aggregate in this paper. The alkali reactivity of waste glass aggregate is examined by two methods in accordance with the China Test Code SL352-2006. The potential of WGP to control the ASR expansion is determined in terms of mean diame...

BACKGROUND Large-scale epidemiologic analysis for hematologic malignancies will be helpful to understand the trends in incidence and survival. METHODS The Korea Central Cancer Registry (KCCR) updated the nationwide analysis on the incidence and survival of myeloid malignancies, from the Korean National Cancer Incidence Database between 1999 and 2012. Myeloid malignancies were classified based...

background and aims: this study aimed to investigate the deaths and injuries following pedestrian traffic accidents and factors associated with death of pedestrian in tehran and alborz provinces. methods: in this cross-sectional study all traffic accidents related to pedestrians in tehran and alborz provinces reported from march 21, 2013 to march 21, 2014 by the traffic police were studied. the...