Participants at both end of the communication channel must share common pictogram interpretation to communicate. However, because pictogram interpretation can be ambiguous, pictogram communication can sometimes be difficult. To assist human task of selecting pictograms more likely to be interpreted as intended, we propose a semantic relevance measure which calculates how relevant a pictogram is...

This study presents a dual channel decoder capable of modeling cross-speaker dependencies for segmentation and classification of fillers and feedbacks in conversational speech found in the DEAL corpus. For the same number of Gaussians per state, we have shown improvement in terms of average F-score for the successive addition of 1) increased frame rate from 10 ms to 50 ms 2) Joint Maximum Cross...

We study Standard Model four-fermion production in e+e− annihilation at LEP2 energies and above using a semi-analytical approach. We derive the complete QED initial state corrections (ISR) to the reactions e+e− → (Z0Z0) → f1f̄1f2f̄2 and e+e− → (W+W−) → f̄u 1 fd 1 fu 2 f̄d 2 with f1 6= f2 and fi 6= e±, (−) νe . As compared to the well-known universal s-channel ISR, additional complexity arises due t...

Due to greater demands for hydrocarbons and improvements in drilling technology, development of oil and natural gas in some regions of the United States has increased dramatically. A 1.4 ha natural gas well pad was constructed in an intermittent stream channel at the Alto Experimental Watersheds in East Texas, USA (F1), while another 1.1 ha well pad was offset about 15 m from a nearby intermitt...

The oligomycin-sensitivity conferring protein (OSCP) of the mitochondrial F(O)F1 ATP synthase has long been recognized to be essential for the coupling of proton transport to ATP synthesis. Located on top of the catalytic F1 sector, it makes stable contacts with both F1 and the peripheral stalk, ensuring the structural and functional coupling between F(O) and F1, which is disrupted by the antib...

Endothelin is a 21-residue peptide formed during incubation of isolated porcine endothelial cells. Due to its pronounced vasoconstrictor activity, endothelin has been proposed to play a role in the regulation of vascular tone. We studied the effects of synthetic endothelin (0.1-10 nM) on coronary flow, mechanical performance, myocardial oxygen uptake, and formation of purines, and outflow of 6-...

Based on QSAR studies two new DHP calcium-channel blockers, mebudipine and dibudipine, were synthesis and evaluated for their pharmacological activity in various tissues. These studies showed that, these compounds, with potency comparable or greater than that of nifedipine could relax the smooth muscles of various vascular tissues. Electrophysiological study showed that they antagonized calcium...

We present a branching ratio measurement for the beta decay of neutral Cascade hyperon, 0 ! + e e , using the KTeV detector at Fermilab. We used the principal decay mode of 0 ! 0 where ! p , as the ux normalization mode. The status of the measurement of the ratio of the axial-vector to vector coupling (g1/f1) for the Cascade beta decay will also be discussed. Furthermore, we present the prelimi...