We studied adipocytes from 8-week-old control rat offspring (CON) or rat offspring subjected to maternal low (8%) protein (MLP) feeding during pregnancy/lactation, a procedure predisposing to obesity. Acute exposure to isoproterenol or adenosine enhanced PDK4 and PPARγ mRNA gene expression in CON and MLP adipocytes. Enhanced adipocyte Pdk4 expression correlated with increased PPARγ expression. ...

This study aims to develop a generalized framework of an SOM called a modular network SOM (mnSOM). The mnSOM has an array structure consisting of functional modules that are trainable neural networks, e.g., multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), instead of the vector units of the conventional SOM. In the case of MLP-modules, an mnSOM learns a group of systems or functions in terms of the input-output ...

In this paprr, we dvscribe d recurrent neural network based, isolated word speech recognizer. 'The recognizer uses 2 MLP's. A f i s t , static MLP is used for classification of frames in phonemes. Next, a time compression step is applied. The resulting pseudo-segments are then used as inputs for a second, dynamic MLP that integrates the information over time to decide the current word. We apply...

In this paper, an experimental evaluation of the neurofuzzy models NEFCLASS and FuNN is conducted in real world pattern recognition applications. The models are investigated with respect to classification performance and the number of rules generated and compared to the traditional MLP network trained with backpropagation. The models NEFCLASS and FuNN are examined in benchmarking problems from ...

We have proposed the glial network which was inspired from the feature of brain. In the glial network, glias generate independent oscillations and these oscillations propagated neurons and other glias. We confirmed that the glial network improved the learning performance of the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) In this article, we investigate the MLP with the impulse glial network. The glias have on...

Different normalization methods are applied in recent Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Systems (LVCSR) to reduce the influence of speaker variability on the acoustic models. In this paper we investigate the use of Vocal Tract Length Normalization (VTLN) and Speaker Adaptive Training (SAT) in Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) feature extraction on an English task. We achieve significant...

Multilayer perceptrons (MLP) has been proven to be very successful in many applications including classification. The activation function is the source of the MLP power. Careful selection of the activation function has a huge impact on the network performance. This paper gives a quantitative comparison of the four most commonly used activation functions, including the Gaussian RBF network, over...

Occupying more than 70% of the concrete’s volume, aggregates play a vital role as the raw feed for construction materials; particularly in the production of concrete and concrete products. Often, the characteristics such as shape, size and surface texture of aggregates significantly affect the quality of the construction materials produced. This article discusses a novel method for automatic cl...

The present paper deals with the continuous work of extending multi-dimensional limiting process (MLP), which has been quite successfully proposed on twoand three-dimensional structured grids, onto the unstructured grids. The basic idea of the present limiting strategy is to control the distribution of both cell-centered and cell-vertex physical properties to mimic a multi-dimensional nature of...

Ensemble of classifiers is one of the most researched methods in pattern classification in recency. It’s a well-known fact that multiple phases for evaluation provides more accuracy. In this paper we proposed a multistage classifier approach where we are applying three supervised classifiers for the classification in pattern recognition. Three Classifiers are Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), K-Near...