Statistical language models (SLMs) for speech recognition have the advantage of robustness, and grammar-based models (GLMs) the advantage that they can be built even when little corpus data is available. A known way to attempt to combine these two methodologies is first to create a GLM, and then use that GLM to generate training data for an SLM. It has however been difficult to evaluate the tru...

We report our recent experimental results on a new polarization-independent, liquid crystal (LC) spatial light modulator (SLM). Based on a periodic nematic director profile, the modulator acts as a switchable diffraction grating with only 0and ±1st-orders at efficiencies of ≥ 99%, manifests contrast ratios ∼600:1 (for laser light), switching times of ∼ 2ms, and threshold voltages of < 1V/μm. Re...

Metal additive manufacturing has strongly gained scientific and industrial importance during the last decades due to the geometrical flexibility and increased reliability of parts, as well as reduced equipment costs. Within the field of metal additive manufacturing methods, selective laser melting (SLM) is an eligible technique for the production of fully dense bulk material with complex geomet...

AIM The aim of this study is to evaluate the hepatoprotective effect of rutin (RTN) in comparison to silymarin (SLM) against acetaminophen (APAP)-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Male Wistar albino rats (n=24) of 3 months age were equally divided into four groups. Group 1 served as normal control. Hepatotoxicity was induced in the remaining three groups with administratio...

This paper describes a novel framework for managing connections to mobile hosts in the Internet. The framework, SLM, integrates the notions of Quality of Service management and mobility management and forms a base for overall session management. We compare SLM with the currently most widely adopted mobility management framework Mobile IP, and show how some of Mobile IP’s deficiencies are overco...

Axial fully-reversed strain-controlled ([Formula: see text]) fatigue experiments were performed to obtain data demonstrating the effects of building orientation (i.e. vertical versus horizontal) and heat treatment on the fatigue behavior of 17-4 PH stainless steel (SS) fabricated via Selective Laser Melting (SLM) (Yadollahi et al., submitted for publication [1]). This data article provides deta...

We introduce a programmable, high-rate scanning femtosecond pulse shaper based on a two-dimensional liquid crystal on a silicon spatial light modulator (SLM). While horizontal resolution of 1920 addressable pixels provides superior fidelity for generating complex waveforms, scanning across the vertical dimension (1080 pixels) has been used to facilitate at least 3 orders of magnitude speed incr...

The objectives of the study were to evaluate the effects of Sabara leaf meal on growth performance, nutrient digestibility and haematological parameters of red Sokoto goats. Bucks were managed in a complete randomized design with 4 treatments and 3 replicates. The Sabara leaf meal (SLM) was fed at concentration of 0, 10, 20 and 30% in treatment 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively. The experimental diets...

This paper analyzes the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) problem in Multicode-Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) systems. The statistical distribution of PAPR is derived and the achievable PAPR reduction for a given code rate is estimated. We show that the PAPR in MC-CDMA communications systems can be reduced by Partial Transmit Sequence (PTS) and Selected Mapping (SLM) approaches. In PT...

Previous work has demonstrated the success of statistical language models when enough training data is available [1], but despite that, grammar-based systems are proving the preferred choice in successful commercial systems such as HeyAnita [2], BeVocal [3] and Tellme [4], largely due to the difficulty involved in obtaining a corpus of training data. Here we trained an SLM on data obtained usin...