210 of CCA and/or ECA dissection. Thus, we estimate the prevalence of this type of dissection to be less than 1% of all cervical artery dissections. The reasons for the low frequency might be a different ultrastructure of the vessel wall in the CCA and ECA, but underdiagnosis due to a lack of attention regarding dissection of the ECA is also possible because dissection occurs without severe con...

The research project COMPANIONS aims at developing an advanced embodied conversational agent (ECA). This ECA is used in two scenarios and two languages (English and Czech), and it requires a TTS system being able to generate very natural expressive and emotional speech output. This paper describes application issues of two such systems within the ECA, introduces approaches to expressive speech ...

Generally, design of the parts of an automobile is restricted by space especially components assembled in the engine room. Therefore traction motor for hybrid electric vehicle is designed by interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM). The IPMSM has high power density and efficiency because it generates not only magnetic torque but also reluctance torque. However, IPMSM is difficult to ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the contribution of the ipsilateral external carotid artery (ECA) to cerebral perfusion in patients with internal carotid artery occlusion. METHODS Institutional Review Board approval and informed consent were obtained. Thirty functionally independent patients (24 men, 6 women; mean age, 63 years) with an angiog...

Event-Condition-Action (ECA) languages are an intuitive and powerful paradigm for programming reactive systems. Usually, important features for an ECA language are reactive and reasoning capabilities, the possibilities to express complex actions and events and a declarative semantics. In this paper, we introduce ERA, an ECA language based on the framework of logic programs updates that, togethe...

mycotic aneurysm of external carotid artery is extremely rare. we herein report a case of external carotid artery (eca) aneurysm following severe traumatic brain injury. a 24-year-old man with severe traumatic brain injury (tbi) following a car accident was referred to rajaee trauma center emergency room affiliated to shiraz university of medical sciences in shiraz, iran. he underwent ventricul...

BACKGROUND Aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA) and ethacrynic acid (ECA) have been reported to exhibit antiviral activity against vaccinia virus infections in cell culture by inhibiting early and late gene transcription, respectively. The purpose of this work was to determine if these inhibitors would effectively treat vaccinia virus infections in mice, which has not previously been studied. METHOD...

Soil apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) has been used as a surrogate measure for such soil properties as salinity, moisture content, topsoil depth (TD), and clay content. Measurements of ECa can be accomplished with commercially available sensors and can be used to efficiently and inexpensively develop the dense datasets desirable for describing within-field spatial variability in precision...

This paper presents an early version of the Reminder, a prototype ECA developed in the European project MonAMI. The Reminder helps users to plan activities and to remember what to do. The prototype merges mobile ECA technology with other, existing technologies: Google Calendar and a digital pen and paper. The solution allows users to continue using a paper calendar in the manner they are used t...

One of the main goals of the Semantic Web initiative [3] is to extend the current Web technology to allow for the development of intelligent agents, which can automatically and unambiguously process the information available on millions of web pages. It has been recognized very early in the development of the Semantic Web that rules are essential for the Web3 and for Semantic Web applications—e...