In this work, Region Dependent Transform (RDT) is used as a feature extraction process to combine the traditional short-term acoustic features with the features derived from Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) which is trained from the long-term features. When compared to the conventional feature augmentation approach, substantial improvement is obtained. Moreover, an improved RDT training procedure ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of remaining dentin thickness (RDT) on the bond strength of current adhesive systems. Third molars were randomly allocated among four groups depending on the adhesive system used: Clearfil SE Bond ONE (SE1), G-Bond PLUS (GB), BeautiBond (BB), and Clearfil Mega Bond (MB). Bonded specimens were stored in water at 37°C for 24 h. Teeth were then ...

BACKGROUND Diagnostic guidelines for Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) in the East African region are complex. Patients meeting the VL clinical case definition should be tested by rK39 rapid diagnostic test (RDT) followed by the Direct Agglutination Test (DAT) or tissue aspiration if RDT-negative. Otherwise, RDT-positive patients should be started on VL treatment. We evaluated how this guideline is a...

BACKGROUND Dengue virus infection causes major public health problems in tropical and subtropical areas. In many endemic areas, including the Lao PDR, inadequate access to laboratory facilities is a major obstacle to surveillance and study of dengue epidemiology. Filter paper is widely used for blood collection for subsequent laboratory testing for antibody and nucleic acid detection. For the f...

The study of compressible homogeneous shear flows has been largely analyzed in literature. Predictions for these flows require an improvement of existing turbulence models. Rapid-distortion-theory (RDT) has largely showed its relevance and its utility to identify compressibility effects which allow us to analyze performances of compressible turbulence models from the existing literature. This p...

BACKGROUND To reduce the burden of disease from malaria, innovative approaches are needed to engender behavior change. One unobservable, but fundamental trait-preferences for risk-may influence individuals' willingness to adopt new health technologies. We explore the association of risk preferences with malaria care-seeking behavior and the acceptability of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs)...

Predictions by social identity theory (SIT) and relative deprivation theory (RDT) concerning preferences for strategies to cope with a negative in-group status position were tested. The focus of the present research was a comparison of the theories regarding their differential patterns of prediction. For this purpose, a natural sample within a specific historical situation was investigated: Eas...

In this paper parameter-free concepts for exact motion planning are investigated. With the proposed RDT approach the collision detection parameters of a Rapidlyexploring Dense Tree (RDT) are automatically adjusted until an exact solution can be found. For efficient planning discrete collision detection routines are used within the RDT planner and by verifying the results with exact collision de...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to evaluate treatment retention, efficacy, and preference ratings among opioid-dependent patients transitioning between a buprenorphine/naloxone rapidly dissolving sublingual tablet formulation (BNX-RDT) and BNX film. METHODS After a 2-day, blinded, fixed-dose induction with BNX-RDT (5.7/1.4 mg and 5.7/1.4 or 11.4/2.8 mg, respectively) or buprenorphine (8 m...

Considering a checkpoint and communication pattern, the rollback-dependency trackability (RDT) property stipulates that there is no hidden dependency between local checkpoints. In other words, if there is a dependency between two checkpoints due to a noncausal sequence of messages (Z-path), then there exists a causal sequence of messages (C-path) that doubles the noncausal one and that establis...