UNLABELLED Diagnosing the presence of cirrhosis is crucial for the management of patients with C282Y hereditary hemochromatosis (HH). HH patients with serum ferritin >1,000 microg/L are at risk of cirrhosis; however, the majority of these patients do not have cirrhosis. Noninvasive markers of hepatic fibrosis may assist in determining which patients with a serum ferritin >1,000 microg/L have ci...

This paper proposes a noise robust speech recognition method using prosodic information. In Japanese, fundamental frequency (F0) contour represents phrase intonation and word accent information. Consequently, it conveys information about prosodic phrase and word boundaries. This paper first proposes a noise robust F0 extraction method using Hough transform, which achieves high extraction rates ...

This paper contributes phonetic evidence to ongoing debate regarding the position of Moroccan Arabic in prosodic typology, with the aim of determining how phrase-edge tonal events should be represented in the intonational phonology of the language. A salient phrase-final rise-fall tonal event, found in MA polar questions, is used as a case study. We examined the alignment of the f0 peak of this...

Listeners are sensitive to contrastive alternatives in online language comprehension (e.g., Braun & Tagliapietra, 2010). Such alternatives play a crucial a role in the definition of particles like only which have been found (i) to facilitate recall of contextual alternatives (Spalek, et al., in revision) and (ii) to hamper the rejection of unmentioned alternatives (Gotzner et al., in preparatio...

Superpositional intonation models posit that the pitch contour, , can be quasi-additively decomposed into component curves such as phrase curves, accent curves, and segmental perturbation curves. Currently, these component curves can only be estimated if one assumes a specific superpositional model, such as the Fujisaki model. A method is proposed for estimating phrase curves that is model-inde...

This paper describes and applies a new algorithm for decomposing pitch curves into component curves, in accordance with the General Superpositional Model of Intonation. According to this model, which is a generalization of the Fujisaki model [3], a pitch contour can be described as the sum of component curves that are each associated with different phonological levels, including the phrase, foo...

The link of hedgehog (Hh) signaling activation to human cancer and synthesis of a variety of Hh signaling inhibitors raise great expectation that inhibiting Hh signaling may be effective in human cancer treatment. Cyclopamine (Cyc), an alkaloid from the Veratrum plant, is a specific natural product inhibitor of the Hh pathway that acts by targeting smoothened (SMO) protein. However, its poor so...

1. Introduction Beckman (1986) draws a distinction between stress-accent and non-stress-accent (i.e., pitch-accent) languages. Stress-accent languages, such as English, convey accentual prominence by a combination of phonetic cues, including pitch, intensity and duration. Non-stress-accent languages, on the other hand, use only pitch as a correlate of accent. Tokyo Japanese is an example of the...

We compared the output of the Santa Barbara microwave canopy backscatter model to polarimetric synthetic aperture radar ( S A R ) data for three ponderosa pine stands (ST2, ST-11, and SP-2) with discontinuous tree canopies near Mt. Shasta, California, at P-band (0.68-m wavelength), L-band (0.235m wavelength), and C-band (0.056-m wavelength). Given the SAR data calibration uncertainty, the model...

Narrow-band images in H2 v=1-0 S(1) (2.122μm) and adjacent continuum (2.104μm) are presented of a number of outflows that are driven by young, deeply embedded sources. We report the detection of aH2 outflow associatedwith theClass 0 source in the HH24-26 region, HH24-MMS, as well as extensive H2 line emission in the HH25 and HH26 CO outflows. In L 1634 a sequence of well-defined molecular bow s...