Language models play a very important role in many natural language processing applications, in particular large vocabulary speech recognition and statistical machine translation. For a long time, back-off n-gram language models were considered to be the state-of-art when large amounts of training data are available. Recently, so called continuous space methods or neural network language models...

Bacteria attached to surfaces in biofilms are responsible for the contamination of industrial processes and many types of microbial infections and disease. Once established, biofilms are notoriously difficult to eradicate. A more complete understanding of how biofilms form and behave is crucial if we are to predict, and ultimately control, biofilm processes. A major breakthrough in biofilm rese...

Candida albicans biofilms form on indwelling medical devices (e.g., denture acrylic or intravenous catheters) and are associated with both oral and invasive candidiasis. Here, we determined whether surface modifications of polyetherurethane (Elasthane 80A [E80A]), polycarbonateurethane, and poly(ethyleneterephthalate) (PET) can influence fungal biofilm formation. Polyurethanes were modified by ...

The selective staining of nucleolar acidic proteins by silver dyes (AgNOR technique) is a promising tool to discriminate malignant cells from benign cells in tumour pathology. Until now, the existing methods to measure the distribution of the AgNOR proteins were performed in two-dimensional space. Confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) and progress in computer sciences make it possible to im...

Cell-imaging approaches using new laser-based technologies have a wide applicability to thefields of pathology and cell biology. Here, we present the application of several of these techniques, including confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM), laser scanning cytometry (LSC), and laser capture microdissection (LCM), to studies of cell signaling by environmental agents in lung disease. Using b...

Non-metallic inclusions (NMIs) in steels have been the focus of various experimental studies due to their detrimental character. While isolated processes, such as agglomeration or dissolution, well investigated, holistic in-situ views with high-temperature confocal scanning laser microscopy (HT-CSLM) rare. In this work a novel and suitable method is presented simultaneously observe agglomeratio...

This article contains experimental data and images for the physical characterization of oil in water emulsions. Mentioned data are related to the research article "Effect of stabilizers, oil level and structure on the growth of Zygosaccharomyces bailii and on physical stability of model systems simulating acid sauces" (A.L. Zalazar, M.F. Gliemmo, C.A. Campos, 2016) [1]. Physical characterizatio...

We examined physiological adaptations which allow the psychrotroph Rhodococcus sp. strain Q15 to assimilate alkanes at a low temperature (alkanes are contaminants which are generally insoluble and/or solid at low temperatures). During growth at 5 degrees C on hexadecane or diesel fuel, strain Q15 produced a cell surface-associated biosurfactant(s) and, compared to glucose-acetate-grown cells, e...