| We show a comparative study of subword unit segmentation of Mandarin speech data. Most HMM recognition systems use intial//nals as subword units for Mandarin speech. We nd that such a division of monosylla-ble data into intial//nal units are not always supported by acoustic evidences. We implement a delta MFCC based seg-mentation method and compare its output with that of Viterbi segmentation...

The 6.5 Swede in it’s original milsurp form is castigated by many as very difficult to load accurate cast bullet loads for, especially at what is considered to be “high velocity”. If you have an original military M96 or M38 that shoots quality jacketed loads into sub 2 moa then it is also reasonable to expect quality cast bullet loads to shoot into the same 2 moa, albeit at a much lesser veloci...

INTRODUCTION Digital technologies related to imaging and manufacturing provide the clinician with a wide variety of treatment options. Stereolithography (SLA) offers a simple and predictable way for an accurate reconstruction of congenital or acquired defects. CLINICAL CASE A 65-years old cancer patient with non- keratinized squamous cell carcinoma of left maxillary sinus came for a prostheti...

Data clustering methods have been proven to be a successful data mining technique in the analysis of gene expression data. The Cluster affinity search technique (CAST) developed by Ben-Dor, et. al., 1999, which has been shown to cluster gene expression data well, has two drawbacks. First, the algorithm uses a fixed initial threshold value to start the clustering. As stated in the original paper...

In this work we propose a novel automatic cast iron segmentation approach based on the Optimum-Path Forest classifier (OPF). Microscopic images from nodular, gray and malleable cast irons are segmented using OPF, and Support Vector Machines (SVM) with Radial Basis Function and SVM without kernel mapping. Results show accurate and fast segmented images, in which OPF outperformed SVMs. Our work i...

Decision-making is a crucial aspect of emergency response during mass casualty incidents (MCIs). MCIs require rapid decisions to be taken by geographically-dispersed teams in an environment characterized by insufficient information, ineffective collaboration and inadequate resources. Despite the increasing adoption of decision support systems in healthcare, there is limited evidence of their va...

INTRODUCTION Cast wedging is a simple and reproducible method of manipulating a sub-optimally reduced fracture producing a correction and a final alignment that is amenable to definitive closed treatment. Multiple successful techniques have been previously described in the literature (opening wedge, closing wedge and combination). TECHNICAL NOTE We present a simple reproducible method of temp...