BACKGROUND The association of minimal change esophagitis (MCE) with GERD is controversial. i-Scan endoscopy (SE) provides high resolution and modulation of images that may improve minimal change lesion (MCL) detection. We aimed to assess the efficacy of SE in detecting MCL in dyspeptic patients with GERD compared with patients without GERD by GerdQ or by endoscopy with 24-h pH monitoring (PHM) ...

Discriminative training criteria have been shown to consistently outperform maximum likelihood trained speech recognition systems. In this paper we employ the Minimum Classification Error (MCE) criterion to optimize the parameters of the acoustic model of a large scale speech recognition system. The statistics for both the correct and the competing model are solely collected on word lattices wi...

The magnetic properties and magnetocaloric effect (MCE) of ternary intermetallic RE2Cu2Cd (RE = Dy and Tm) compounds and its composite materials have been investigated in detail. Both compounds undergo a paramagnetic to ferromagnetic transition at its own Curie temperatures of TC ~ 48.5 and 15 K for Dy2Cu2Cd and Tm2Cu2Cd, respectively, giving rise to the large reversible MCE. An additionally ma...

CCAAT enhancer binding protein β (C/EBPβ) is required for both mitotic clonal expansion (MCE) and terminal differentiation during the 3T3-L1 adipocyte differentiation program. Whereas the mechanism of C/EBPβ during terminal differentiation is well understood, the mechanism of C/EBPβ in MCE is not. We provide evidence that histone H4, the most conserved cell cycle-related histone, the change of ...

BACKGROUND The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (N/L) ratio has been associated with poor prognosis in patients with heart failure, but it has not been compared with N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in elderly patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). We sought to make this comparison. METHODS A total of 1355 elderly patients with CHF were analyzed. A multivariate logistic regres...

Minimum Classification Error (MCE) has shown to be effective in improving the performance of a speaker identification system [1]. However, there are still problems to solve, such as the variability of the voice characteristics of a particular speaker through time. In this work, we analyze the degradation of a GMM-based textindependent speaker identification system when using test data recorded ...

Minimum Classification Error (MCE) has shown to be effective in improving the performance of a speaker identification system [1]. However, there are still problems to solve, such as the variability of the voice characteristics of a particular speaker through time. In this work, we analyze the degradation of a GMM-based textindependent speaker identification system when using test data recorded ...

Objective: To assess the role of intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) in predicting functional recovery and regional or global left ventricular (LV) remodelling after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) compared with low dose dobutamine stress echocardiography (LDSE). Methods: 21 patients with anterior AMI and successful primary angioplasty underwent MCE and LDSE during the suba...