4 Introduction 5 1.1 Large vocabulary vs. small vocabulary tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.2 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The SPHINX II System 8 2.1 Overview of SPHINX II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2 Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Recognition Un...

Timely and accurate monitoring of cropping intensity (CI) is essential to help us understand changes in food production. This paper aims to develop an automatic Cropping Intensity extraction method based on the Isolines of Wavelet Spectra (CIIWS) with consideration of intra-class variability. The CIIWS method involves the following procedures: (1) characterizing vegetation dynamics from time–fr...

In a controlled prospective study, we studied 150 grade ASA I children undergoing outpatient dental extraction under inhalation anaesthesia with a T-piece system allocated to three equal groups: a control group (0 cm H2O CPAP), and two study groups receiving 2.5 or 5 cm H2O of CPAP via a nasal mask. We found that the incidence and severity of oxygen desaturation were reduced significantly in th...

Methods employed in the construction of prediction bands for continuous curves require a different approach to those used for a data point. In many cases, the underlying function is unknown and thus a distribution-free approach which preserves sufficient coverage for the entire signal is necessary in the signal analysis. This paper discusses three methods for the formation of (1-α)100% bootstra...

This paper reports a novel microfluidic-chip based platform using "phase-transfer magnetophoresis" enabling continuous biomolecule processing. As an example we demonstrate for the first time continuous DNA extraction from cell lysate on a microfluidic chip. After mixing bacterial Escherichia coli culture with superparamagnetic bead suspension, lysis and binding buffers, DNA is released from cel...

Musical genre classification task falls into two major stages: feature extraction and classification. The latter implies a choice of a variety of machine leaning methods, as support vector machines, neural networks, etc. However, the former stage provides much more creativity in development of musical genre classification system and it plays crucial part in performance of the system as a whole....

Star anise (Illicium verum) is widely used as a medicinal herb and spice. The extracts, essential oil oleoresin, can be produced by hydro-distillation steam distillation, while solvent supercritical fluid extraction to extract oleoresin. In this work, the star distilled obtain oil, subsequently, its residue extracted get Whole grounded fruit for 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 hours, thus highest yield obtai...