ABSTRACT Background: Evaluation of breast masses in women under 40 years old starts with a Triple Test Score (TTS) which is composed of clinical breast examination, mammography and fine needle aspiration. Increased breast density in this age group decreases the sensitivity of mammography. So deciding whether to biopsy such nondiagnostic lesions or not is subject to challenge. Breast masses up ...

CONTEXT Renewal of fentanyl transdermal patch (transdermal therapeutic system [TTS]) should occur every 3 days (72 hours) according to manufacturer's guidelines. Some studies mentioned patients reporting end-of-dose failure, and thus, some authors recommend shortening the interval of application to 2 days (48 hours). However, reasons for early replacement are mostly unknown. OBJECTIVES The ob...

The sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and transverse tubular system (TTS) of a fast-twitch muscle (extensor digitorum longus-EDL) and a slow-twitch muscle (soleus-SOL) of the mouse were examined during postnatal development. Muscles of animals newborn to 60 days old were fixed in glutaraldehyde and osmium tetroxide and examined with an electron microscope. At birth the few T tubules were often orient...

Natural and intelligible Text to Speech (TTS) systems exist for a number of languages in the world today. However, there are many languages of the world, for which building TTS systems is still prohibitive, due to the lack of linguistic resources and data. Some of these languages are spoken by a large population of the world. Others are primarily spoken languages, or languages with large non-li...

We report here a lentiviral vector system for regulated transgene expression. We used the tetracycline repressor fused with a transcriptional suppression domain (tTS) to specifically suppress transgene expression. Human cells were first transduced with a tTS-expressing vector and subsequently transduced with a second lentiviral vector-containing transgene controlled by a regular promoter adjace...

Personalizing a speech synthesis system is highly desired application, where the can generate with user’s voice rare enrolled recordings. There are two main approaches to build such in recent works: speaker adaptation and encoding. On one hand, methods fine-tune trained multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) model few samples. However, they require at least thousands of fine-tuning steps for high-q...

Zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (ZSM-TTS) models aim to generate a speech sample with the voice characteristic of an unseen speaker. The main challenge ZSM-TTS is increase overall speaker similarity for speakers. One most successful conditioning methods flow-based (TTS) utilize functions which predict scale and bias parameters affine coupling layers according given embedding vector. In t...

TTS-synthesis of neutral style Greek with good intelligibility and quality has been achieved some time ago. As a further step towards expanding the applications domain of the TTS-system developed in our laboratory, the incorporation of emphasis into speech used in man-machine dialogues according to their context has been studied recently. In this paper the method applied for the analysis of int...

A sinusoidal representation of speech is an alternative to the source-filter model. It is widely used in speech coding and unit-selection TTS, but is less common in statistical TTS frameworks. In this work we utilize Regularized Cepstral Coefficients (RCC) estimated in mel-frequency scale for amplitude spectrum envelope modeling within an HMM-based TTS platform. Improved subjective quality for ...

The voice enabled web is a combination of XML based markup languages, speech recognition, text to speech (TTS) and web technologies. Key to the success of voice enabled web applications is the “naturalness” of the interface. Users are much more likely to interact with a system they feel comfortable with and that responds in a human like way. This paper describes the deployment of TTS in commerc...