This paper proposes a spoken term detection using syllable transition network (STN) derived from multiple speech recognizers. An STN is similar to a sub-word based confusion network, which is derived from the output of a speech recognizer. The one we proposed is derived from the outputs of multiple speech recognition systems, which is well known to be robust to certain recognition errors and th...

Management of solitary thyroid nodule (STN) still remains uncertain despite the many sophisticated investigations which are presently available.l f The problem is aggravated by the fact, that in the literature, the quoted incidence of malignancy in STN varies depending on the basis of selection of cases for surgery, population studied, goitrogenicity of the region and the investigations used.l ...

The subthalamic nucleus (STN), which receives excitatory inputs from the cortex and has direct connections with the inhibitory pathways of the basal ganglia, is well positioned to efficiently mediate action selection. Here, we use microelectrode recordings captured during deep brain stimulation surgery as participants engage in a decision task to examine the role of the human STN in action sele...

The spatial variability of soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (STN) levels is important in both global carbon-nitrogen cycle and climate change research. There has been little research on the spatial distribution of SOC and STN at the watershed scale based on geographic information systems (GIS) and geostatistics. Ninety-seven soil samples taken at depths of 0-20 cm were collected dur...

The mechanisms underlying the effects of long-term deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN DBS) as a therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD) remain poorly understood. The present study examined whether functionally effective, long-term STN DBS modulates glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and/or brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in both unlesioned and unilatera...

abstract   background: to improve the debilitating features of parkinson disease (pd) different medical and surgical approaches are available. subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (stn-dbs) was appeared to be a promising method during last two decades. this study aimed to evaluate early motor outcomes of this procedure in first trial of iranian patients .   methods: thirty-seven consecuti...

The distribution of distances in each star graph STn, (1 < n ∈ Z), is established, and subsequently a threaded binary tree is obtained that realizes an orientation of STn whose levels are given by the distances to the identity permutation, via algorithms of pruning and threading. In the process, the distributions of distances of the efficient dominating sets (or E-sets) of STn are determined.

Our understanding of the role played by the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in human emotion has recently advanced with STN deep brain stimulation, a neurosurgical treatment for Parkinson's disease and obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, the potential presence of several confounds related to pathological models raises the question of how much they affect the relevance of observations regarding th...

Both the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and the globus pallidus pars interna (GPi) are major targets for neuromodulation therapy for movement disorders. An example of such a therapy is deep brain stimulation (DBS). The striatum is the primary target for pharmacological treatment of these disorders. To further our understanding of both the functional relationships among motor nuclei and the mechanism...