A distortion-weighted glimpse proportion metric (BiDWGP) for predicting binaural speech intelligibility were evaluated in simulated anechoic and reverberant conditions, with and without a noise masker. The predictive performance of BiDWGP was compared to four reference binaural intelligibility metrics, which were extended from the Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) and the Speech Transmission I...

Purpose The measure of companies' Innovation Performance is fundamental for enhancing the value and decision-making processes firms. purpose this paper to present a new Performance, called Patent Index (IPI), which makes it possible quantitatively summarize different aspects firms' innovation. Design/methodology/approach In order define IPI, secondary source, i.e. patent data, has been used. fi...

Introduction/Objective. Ovarian carcinomas are the deadliest gynecological tumors. Despite advances in treatment options, survival rates still not at desired level. Since clinical signs typical early-stage disease, 2/3rd of patients diagnosed late. Carbohydrate Antigen 125 (CA125) does have sufficient sensitivity and specificity disease early post-relapse progression. There is a need for simple...

AbstractBackground and aims Systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) has been recently investigated as a novel inflammatory prognostic marker. SII may be used an indicator reflecting the progressive process in atherosclerosis, although its link to incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) not examined previous studies. This study aims prospectively assess association of with CVD m...

Tactile shape information is elaborated in a cortical hierarchy spanning primary (SI) and secondary somatosensory cortex (SII). Indeed, SI neurons in areas 3b and 1 encode simple contour features such as small oriented bars and edges, whereas higher order SII neurons represent large curved contour features such as angles and arcs. However, neural coding of these contour features has not been sy...

This fMRI study investigated the human somatosensory system, especially the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII), with respect to its potential somatotopic organization. Eight subjects received electrical stimulation on their right second finger, fifth finger and hallux. Within SII, the typical finding for both fingers was a representation site within the contralateral parietal operculum roughl...

Semantic image interpretation (SII) leverages Semantic Web ontologies for generating a mathematical structure that describes the content of images. SII algorithms consider the ontologies only in a late phase of the SII process to enrich these structures. In this research proposal we study a well-founded framework that combines logical knowledge with low-level image features in the early phase o...

The thermodynamics of binary sII hydrogen clathrates with secondary guest molecules is studied with Monte Carlo simulations. The small cages of the sII unit cell are occupied by one H(2) guest molecule. Different promoter molecules entrapped in the large cages are considered. Simulations are conducted at a pressure of 1000 atm in a temperature range of 233-293 K. To determine the stabilizing ef...

A new predictive computational method for classifying clathrate hydrate promoter molecules is presented, based on the interaction energies between potential promoters and the water networks of sII and sH clathrates. The motivation for this work is identifying promoters for storing hydrogen compactly in clathrate hydrates. As a first step towards achieving this goal, we have developed a general ...

The role of attention in modulating tactile sensitivity in primary (SI) and secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) was addressed using a cross-modal manipulation of attention, somatosensory versus visual. Two adult monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were trained to perform two tasks: tactile discrimination of a change in the texture of a surface presented to digits 3 and 4 and visual discrimination of a ch...