The original MASS course on which this text is based ran for 14 weeks, with three 50-minute lectures in each week (given by the second author). This structure has been preserved in the present book and may be used as a rough guide if you wish to use this book as the text for a class. However, some circumstances of the original course are worth noting. As part of the MASS program, the students, ...

objectives: loneliness is a common experience of people, regardless of gender, age, socio economic and cultural experience in the course of its life. the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of gestalt group therapy on the loneliness of alzheimer’s caregivers. methods: in an experimental study with a pre-post test design and control group, women participants were selected from alz...

In this paper we discuss the design, acquisition and preprocessing of a Czech audio-visual speech corpus. The corpus is intended for training and testing of existing audio-visual speech recognition system. The name of the database is UWB-07-ICAVR, where ICAVR stands for Impaired Condition Audio Visual speech Recognition. The corpus consist of 10000 utterances of continuous speech obtained from ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of electrical stimulation (2,500-Hz sine waves, interrupted for 50 pulsed bursts per second) to improve muscle torque using low-dosage training characteristics. Fifteen healthy subjects (9 men, 6 women), 20 to 32 years of age, participated in the experiment. All subjects received electrical stimulation of the right anterior thigh musculature...

The intent of this investigation was to examine the potential influence of varying durations of physical exertion at different times of the day on immediate mathematical performance by 120 sixth-grade boys and girls. Subjects were assigned to two control and two treatment groups (Solomon Four-group Design), with treated subjects administered physical exertion (paced walking at controlled modera...

Entity authentication provides confidence in the claimed identity of a peer entity, but the manner in which this goal is achieved results in different types of authentication. An important factor in this regard is the order between authentication and the execution of the associated session. In this paper, we consider the case of post-session authentication, where parties authenticate each other...

In this paper we present a speaker recognition algorithm that models explicitly intra-speaker inter-session variability. Such variability may be caused by changing speaker characteristics (mood, fatigue, etc.), channel variability or noise variability. We define a session-space in which each session (either train or test session) is a vector. We then calculate a rotation of the session-space fo...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of the OMNI Resistance Exercise scale (OMNI-RES) for monitoring the intensity of different modes of resistance training in children who are overweight or obese. Sixty-one children (mean age = 9.7 +/- 1.4 years) performed three resistance training sessions every week for 4 weeks. Each session consisted of three sets of 3-15 repetitions of eigh...

OBJECTIVE We retrospectively analyzed our experience with time-staged gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery (GKS) in treating large arteriovenous malformation(AVM)s;≥ 10 cm3). METHODS Forty-five patients who underwent time-staged GKS (2-stage, n = 37;3-stage,n = 8) between March 1998 and December 2011 were included. The mean volume treated was 20.42±6.29 cm3 (range, 10.20-38.50 cm3). Oblitera...