\You crazy," said Max. It was either a statement or a question. \So you're our man, then," he said. It was half statement, half question. ABSTRACT We show in this paper that the labeling of sentence modality in German, esp. of questions vs. non-questions, is more diicult for spontaneous than for read speech and easier for non-elliptic than for elliptic utterances. However, the prosodic marking ...

BACKGROUND Animal studies have shown that nicotine affects the peristalsis of the ureter. The aim of the study is to analyze the effect of smoking on spontaneous passage of distal ureteral stones. METHODS 88 patients in whom distal ureteral stone below 10 mm diameter diagnosed with helical computerized tomography enhanced images were reviewed. Patients were grouped as either smokers (n:33) or...

Fibromuscular dysplasia is a non-inflammatory and non-atherosclerotic arteriopathy commonly affecting medium-size renal, carotid, and vertebral arteries. Involvement of the coronary artery is very rare but may cause life-threatening spontaneous dissection. Because it is rare, this disease may go unrecognized. A unique angiographic finding of non-coronary arteries can make an early diagnosis, an...

Spontaneous abortion is the most common adverse pregnancy outcome, and stress has been suggested to be important factor. We hypothesized that those female pregnant women with previous spontaneous abortion will have higher anxiety and depression than female pregnant women without previous spontaneous abortion and controls (healthy non-pregnant women). Age and socio-demographic parameters did not...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to survey oral contraceptive usage among women under 25 years of age. DESIGN This was a cross sectional population study based on information collected by questionnaire mailed to randomly selected individuals. SETTING The study population consisted of Swedish women born between 1960 and 1964 and living in the southern Swedish health care region which has about on...

Microelectronics assembly entails complex processes where several potentially fetotoxic chemical compounds are used extensively. This study was undertaken to assess the potential adverse reproductive outcomes among former women workers in a microelectronics assembly plant in New Mexico with respect to a comparable population from the same geographical region and to examine the relation between ...

This paper presents a novel approach to acoustic model adaptation of a recognizer for non-native spontaneous speech in the context of recognizing candidates’ responses in a test of spoken English. Instead of collecting and then transcribing spontaneous speech data, a read speech corpus is created where non-native speakers of English read English sentences of different degrees of pronunciation d...

Polycystic ovarian syndrome is a hormonal disturbance that results in a collection of symptoms and has wide-ranging health implications. There is evidence that it may run in families, and it is associated with the development of type 2 diabetes and recurrent miscarriage. Diagnosis involves eliminating other potential conditions, while treatment aims to manage individual symptoms rather than pro...

The spontaneous regression of herniated cervical discs is not a well-established phenomenon. However, we encountered a case of a spontaneous regression of a severe radiculopathic herniated cervical disc that was treated with acupuncture, pharmacopuncture, and herb medicine. The symptoms were improved within 12 months of treatment. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) conducted at that time revealed...