In this paper, utilization of clustering algorithms for data fusion in decision level is proposed. The results of automatic isolated word recognition, which are derived from speech spectrograph and Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) analysis, are combined with each other by using fuzzy clustering algorithms, especially fuzzy k-means and fuzzy vector quantization. Experimental results show that the ...

A combination of exogenous surfactant and partial liquid ventilation (PLV) with perfluorocarbons should enhance gas exchange, improve respiratory mechanics and reduce tissue damage of the lung in acute lung injury (ALI). We used a small dose of exogenous surfactant with and without PLV in an experimental model of ALI and studied the effects on gas exchange, haemodynamics, lung mechanics, and lu...

The present study was undertaken to compare five laboratory diagnostic tests for sub-clinical mastitis in cattle and buffaloes and to compute cost, time taken by each test and its ranking for availability, adoptability, interpretability and sensitivity. There were 352 cases with each test type viz. California Mastitis Test (CMT), White Side Test (WST), White Side + Dye (WSTD), Surf Test and Sur...

The sport of surfing is gaining increasing importance in the context tourism. Surf tourism has emerged as one promising product certain regions worldwide. Surfing, a and lifestyle, been grounded surf culture, which recognized potential attraction factor for destinations. Although previous research undertaken field tourism, impact that visitors’ perceptions destination’s culture have on overall ...

Three strains of facultatively anaerobic thermotolerant and moderately halophilic bacteria were isolated from two Jordanian hot spring locations. The novel Bacillus strains were short rods, Gram-positive, motile and spore formers. The strains were capable of anaerobic (but not aerobic) growth at 63C, moderately halophilic, able to grow at NaCl concentration range of 12 15 % and at temperatures ...

The Distributed Integrated Ocean Prediction System (DIOPS) is a PC-based wave, tide and surf prediction system designed to provide DoD accurate and timely surf predictions for essentially any world-wide location. Regional and coastal wave predictions are made by the Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) wave module that is typically initialized by offshore directional wave spectra from the Fleet Nu...

Zhai and Shah (2006) proposed a model of spatiotemporal saliency using a combination of temporal and spatial attention models. The temporal model utilized Lowe’s SIFT (2004) to compute feature points and the correspondences between them in successive frames. Bay, Tuytelaars, & Van Gool introduced SURF (2006) as an alternative feature detector and descriptor. The authors of SURF show that it is ...