BACKGROUND It is very important to assess the effectiveness of prone positioning (PP) in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However, it is difficult to identify patients who may benefit from PP. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether prone positioning potential (PPP) can be predicted by lung ultrasound in patients with ARDS. METHODS In this prospect...

conclusions among the treatment regimens containing dcv, dcv/sof has the highest svr rate for the treatment of infection with different hcv genotypes in different patient contexts; thus, this regimen shows promise for the treatment of hcv infections. results we found six different regimens containing dcv: dcv/asunaprevir (asv), dcv/asv/beclubavir, dcv/pegylated interferon lambda or alpha/rbv wi...

In this chapter, the authors address main issues of Navigation, Guidance, and Control (NGC) and vision system of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASV). These issues compose research problems and related research findings in recent years. Related research results are reviewed first; then the hardware and subsystem of ASVs is introduced. For the typical rudder-propeller, three degrees of freedom horiz...

An increasing number of independent studies have confirmed the vulnerability of automatic speaker verification (ASV) technology to spoofing. However, in comparison to that involving other biometric modalities, spoofing and countermeasure research for ASV is still in its infancy. A current barrier to progress is the lack of standards which impedes the comparison of results generated by different...

The present study evaluates MBCM and GMM solutions for both ASV and ASI problems involving text-independent telephone speech from the King speech database. The MBCM's accuracy is enhanced by selectively removing those classi ers within the model which perform worst (pruning). An unpruned MBCM outperforms a GMM for ASV and speakers taken from within the same dialectic region (San Diego, CA). Onc...

Zu Beginn des Jahres 1981 wurde entgegen skeptischen Stimmen an der Sektion Theoretische und angewandte Sprachwissenschaft (TAS) der Leipziger Universität mit der Bildung eines Forschungskollektivs der Aufbau der Forschungsrichtung "Automatische Sprachverarbeitung" (ASV) in Angriff genommen. Die Leitung war dem Verfasser dieser Mitteilung übertragen worden, de facto teilte er sie sich mit Rudi ...

The avian sarcoma virus transforming gene product pp60src has been partially purified by using ion exchange or immunoaffinity chromatography. These preparations contain a cyclic AMP-independent protein kinase activity capable of transferring radiolabel from [gamma-32P]ATP to immune rabbit IgG, casein, and the heavy chain purified from normal rabbit IgG. The casein kinase activity is specificall...