AIMS To obtain age references for sitting height (SH), leg length (LL), and SH/H ratio in the Netherlands; to evaluate how SH standard deviation score (SDS), LL SDS, SH/H SDS, and SH/LL SDS are related to height SDS; and to study the usefulness of height corrected SH/H cut-off lines to detect Marfan syndrome and hypochondroplasia. METHODS Cross-sectional data on height and sitting height were...

Understanding and manipulating micelle morphology are key to exploiting surfactants in various applications. Recent studies have shown surfactant self-assembly a variety of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) where both the nature interaction molecule with solvent components influence size, shape, micelles formed. So far, formation has only been reported type III DESs, consisting solely organic speci...

Abstract There has been a statement that the satellite and reanalyses significantly overestimate snow depths (SDs) as compared with in-situ observations over Tibetan Plateau (TP). The inconsistency may be partly due to representations related different spatial resolutions. To further clarify matters of scale, this work estimates compares fractional cover (FSC) from MODIS (500 m), SDs Sentinel-1...

Abstract Sudden death syndrome (SDS) is a condition in which apparently healthy broiler chickens die suddenly. There are short convulsions and frantic wing-beating prior to death, the weight of internal organs same as chickens. The exact etiology SDS unknown. Heart problems have been implicated potential cause disease Despite considerable research, effective methods prevention still being sough...

Speech and hand gestures offer the most natural modalities for everyday human-to-human interaction. The availability of diverse spoken dialogue applications and the proliferation of accelerometers on consumer electronics allow the introduction of new interaction paradigms based on speech and gestures. Little attention has been paid however to the manipulation of spoken dialogue systems through ...

Considering the climbing interest to relate temporary uses with long-term change, this contribution explores how demonstrate spatially detached stabilization (SDS) as well factors supporting process. A rhythmanalytical approach helps reframe SDS temporally, while insights from existing research in context of urban regeneration inform a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) accounti...

While natural language as an interaction modality is increasingly being accepted by users, remaining technological challenges still hinder its widespread employment. Tools that better support the design, development and improvement of these types of applications are required. This demo presents a prototyping framework for Spoken Dialog System (SDS) design which combines existing language techno...

Information about the quality of a Spoken Dialogue System (SDS) is usually used only for comparing SDSs with each other or manually improving the dialogue strategy. This information, however, provides a means for inherently improving the dialogue performance by adapting the Dialogue Manager during the interaction accordingly. For a quality metric to be suitable, it must suffice certain conditio...

The interaction of spectrin with spectrin-depleted inside-out membrane vesicles was studied in a kindred with an atypical variant of hereditary elliptocytosis inherited in a recessive manner. The probands are characterized by prominent elliptocytosis, decreased erythrocyte thermal stability, an altered limited tryptic peptide pattern of spectrin digested at low ionic strength, and defective spe...

Research trends on SDS evaluation are recently focusing on objective assessment methods. Most existing methods, which derive quality for each systemuser-exchange, do not consider temporal dependencies on the quality of previous exchanges. In this work, we investigate an approach for determining Interaction Quality for human-machine dialogue based on methods modeling the sequential characteristi...