In recent years, the unit selection-based concatenative speech synthesis method using a large corpus has attracted great attention. This method provides more natural quality speech compared to the parameter driven methods. The Formant Synthesis, HNM method and use of MLSA filter are the prevalent methods for synthesizing Farsi speech. In this paper, we present the structure of a proposed unit s...

The aim of this study was to genetically characterize clinical isolates from patients diagnosed with Mycobacterium avium lung disease and to investigate the clinical significance. Multi-locus sequencing analysis (MLSA) and pattern of insertion sequence analysis of M. avium isolates from 92 Korean patients revealed that all isolates were M. avium subspecies hominissuis. In hsp65 sequevar analysi...

We assessed the quantitative representation and specificity of alloreactive helper T lymphocytes (HTL) within murine spleen cells by three different limiting dilution systems. For the induction of primary cytolytic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses towards alloantigens, a Lyt-1+23- HTL precursor (HTLp) could be defined, which occurred at frequencies of 1/2.000-1/50,000, depending on the alloantigen ...

True incidence of leprosy and its impact on transmission will not be understood until a tool is available to measure pre-symptomatic infection. Diagnosis of leprosy disease is currently based on clinical symptoms, which on average take 3-10 years to manifest. The fact that incidence, as defined by new case detection, equates with prevalence, i.e., registered cases, suggests that the cycle of tr...

Antarctica harbors a great diversity of microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, microalgae and yeasts. The Pseudomonas genus is one of the most diverse and successful bacterial groups described to date, but only eight species isolated from Antarctica have been characterized. Here, we present three potentially novel species isolated on King George Island. The most abundant isolates from fou...

Vibrio bacteria, particularly members of the Harveyi clade, are most important pathogens aquatic organisms that cause significant economic losses in world. It is difficult to provide specific data on taxa clade for biological research and prevention strategies. Therefore, we conducted an extensive phenotypic antibiotic resistance study, as well phylogenetic molecular typing 192 isolates collect...