Leonard A. Mermel, Michael Allon, Emilio Bouza, Donald E. Craven, Patricia Flynn, Naomi P. O’Grady, Issam I. Raad, Bart J. A. Rijnders, Robert J. Sherertz, and David K. Warren Division of Infectious Diseases, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; University of Alabama-Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama; Tufts University School of Medicine, Lahey Clini...

Initializing an unmixing matrix is an important problem in source separation since an objective function to be optimized is typically non-convex. In this paper, we consider the problem of two-source signal separation from a two-microphone array located on a mobile device, where a point source such as a speech signal is placed in front of the array, while no information is available about anothe...

Mandy Schulz,1 Ute Nöthlings,1 Naomi Allen,2 N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,3 Claudia Agnoli,4 Dagrun Engeset,5 Rocco Galasso,6 Elisabet Wirfält,7 Anne Tjønneland,8 Anja Olsen,8 Kim Overvad,9 Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault,10 Veronique Chajes,10 Francoise Clavel-Chapelon,10 Jennifer Ray,1 Kurt Hoffmann,1 Jenny Chang-Claude,11 Rudolf Kaaks,11 Dimitrios Trichopoulos,12 Christina Georgila,13 Pantelina ...

the 1960s called for "new alternatives" to Hahnemann's past, while the 1970s and 1980s were marked by community outreach, financial crises, and public controversy. The theme of the book as reflected in the title seems somehow misleading and ambiguous. Hahnemann did indeed follow an "alternative path" in its first half century but for much of the rest of its history it has scrambled to identify ...

Acknowledgements I would like to begin by acknowledging the invaluable support of my advisor, Mark Johnson, whose level of knowledge and expertise I can only hope to achieve someday. Special thanks are also due to my other committee members: to Tom Griffiths, for arriving at Brown in the nick of time (among many other feats), and to Katherine Demuth and John Goldsmith, for providing valuable ad...

The study aims to identify how Arab-American authors Naomi Shihab Nye and Diana Abu-Jaber depict Arabs in their novels, Habibi Crescent. Additionally, the attempts compare contrast between two writers’ depictions of novels. To achieve objectives study, theory Post-colonialism is used; more specifically, Edward Said’s views from his book Orientalism are applied both concludes by showing Arab cha...

the issue of “right” is an important subject in field of political, legal and moral thoughts to the extent that the modern age is called “the age of right”. modern man is rightful, providing his welfare is not his first priority. instead, access to and attaining his rights is what can bring him peace of mind. it is properly held that right is not confined to specific aspect of life but covers d...

white matter lesions (wmls) are commonly observed in strokepatients with small vessel disease (svd) and are thought toresult from a progressive, irreversible disease process followingarteriolosclerosis. in this study, we report a case of partialdisappearance of wmls 1 year after a lacunar stroke in a69-year-old man with evidence of svd. we also discuss possiblemechanisms associated with this ob...

a 3*2*2 factorial experiment was conducted to study the effect of feeding whole wheat (0, 10, and 20%), a microbial enzyme source (arabino-xylanase based enzyme for wheat at 0% and 0.1%) and 0% or 1% insoluble grit (number 3 layer size) on the performance of white leghorn hens at 19 to 54 weeks of age. each dietary treatment was replicated four times with ten hens, housed two to a cage, eac...

The debate over the processing mechanism for inflectional morphology has focused largely on the German plural system because it seems to contain a minority default, a form that has low frequency but high productivity in diverse contexts. Child overgeneralization patterns, phonological similarity effects, restrictions on compounding, reaction times, and neural dissociations have all been used to...