UNLABELLED Nicorandil, a hybrid adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-sensitive potassium channel opener and nitrate, is commonly used for the management of acute ischemic heart failure (AIHF). The aims of this study were to predict the effect of nicorandil by calculating myocardium-to-background ratio increasing rate (MBR-IR) using nicorandil stress myocardial perfusion SPECT and to evaluate the progno...

When a multidimensional index is used for similar sequence matching, the traditional approach is to transform high-dimensional window sequences to low-dimensional sequences and bounding them into a low-dimensional minimum bounding rectangle (MBR). In this paper, we propose a new approach which constructs a low-dimensional MBR by directly transforming a high-dimensional MBR (calledMBR-transforma...

Extensive research has focussed on the development of novel high retention membrane bioreactor (HR-MBR) systems for wastewater reclamation in recent years. HR-MBR integrates high rejection membrane separation with conventional biological treatment in a single step. High rejection membrane separation processes currently used in HR-MBR applications include nanofiltration, forward osmosis, and mem...

We present minimum Bayes-risk system combination, a method that integrates consensus decoding and system combination into a unified multi-system minimum Bayes-risk (MBR) technique. Unlike other MBR methods that re-rank translations of a single SMT system, MBR system combination uses the MBR decision rule and a linear combination of the component systems’ probability distributions to search for ...

The development and application of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for fullscale municipal wastewater treatment is the most important recent technological advance in terms of biological wastewater treatment. The MBR is a suspended growth-activated sludge system that utilizes microporous membranes for solid/liquid separation instead of secondary clarifiers. It represents a decisive step forward conc...

Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoders improve upon MAP decoders by directly optimizing loss function of interest: Word Error Rate MBR decoding is expensive when the search spaces are large Segmental MBR (SMBR) decoding breaks the single utterance-level MBR decoder into a sequence of simpler search problems. – To do this, the N-best lists or lattices need to be segmented We present: A new lattice se...

BACKGROUND It is difficult to identify glaucoma in myopic eyes because the configuration of the optic disc varies; yet it is important clinically. Here, we used laser speckle flowgraphy (LSFG) to measure mean blur rate (MBR), representing optic disc microcirculation, and assessed its ability to identify glaucoma in eyes with myopic optic discs. METHODS 129 eyes (normal disc: 21 eyes; myopic d...

[1] The subsurface transfer of water from a mountain block to an adjacent basin (mountain block recharge (MBR)) is a commonly invoked mechanism of recharge to intermountain basins. However, MBR estimates are highly uncertain. We present an approach to characterize bulk fluid circulation in a mountain block and thus MBR that utilizes environmental tracers from the basin aquifer. Noble gas rechar...

This study examines movement-based registration (MBR). In MBR, a mobile station (MS) performs location registration whenever the number of entering cells reaches the specified movement threshold M. MBR is simple and its implementation is quite straightforward. However, it may result in more registrations than other similar schemes. We propose an improved MBR scheme, in which MBR combines with i...