The methodology described in this article was developed to transcend the limitations of both approaches. Its goal is to use existing data to identify small areas with high levels of adolescent childbearing. The method is an active approach to identify what can be defined as “hot spots” for adolescent births, even when they are located in counties or communities where adolescent births are not c...

The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of rare chronic autoimmune diseases that include polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM). Antisynthetase syndrome (ASS) is recognized as a subset of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and the syndrome is characterized by myositis associated with interstitial lung disease (ILD) and autoantibodies against aminoacyl-tRNA synth...

SCore (OS Kernel) RWC-1 (Massively Parallel Machine) MPC++ (Implementation Language) OCore (Base Language) Extensions VAST(Persistent Runtime System) Massively Parallel Object Paradigm Object-Oriented Data Parallel Paradigm Real World Problems Scientific Simulations Sociological Simulations Real-Time Speech, Motion Recognition Real-Time Decision Making Signal/Noise Recognition New Information P...

A series of demonstrations of synthesized acappella songs based on an auditory morphing using STRAIGHT [5] will be presented. Singing voice data for morphing were extracted from the RWCmusic database of musical instrument sound. Discussions on a new extension of the morphing procedure to deal with vibrato will be introduced based on the statistical analysis of the database and its effect on syn...

AIM The global spread of woody plants into grasslands is predicted to increase over the coming century. While there is general agreement regarding the anthropogenic causes of this phenomenon, its ecological consequences are less certain. We analyzed how woody vegetation of differing cover affects plant diversity (richness and evenness) and multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality) in gl...

Fish oil contains large amounts of essential omega-3 fatty acids, such as eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaneoic acids, which are building structures of cell membranes. The goal of this study was to elucidate the effects of dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on the oxidant/antioxidant status of erythrocytes in rats. The malondialdehyde (MDA) and nitric oxide (NO) levels and the catalase (...

In this paper, a method for multi-pitch detection which exploits the temporal evolution of musical sounds is presented. The proposed method extends the shift-invariant probabilistic latent component analysis algorithm by introducing temporal constraints using multiple Hidden Markov Models, while supporting multiple-instrument spectral templates. Thus, this model can support the representation o...

This paper describes the design policy and specifications of the RWC Music Database, a copyright-cleared music database (DB) compiled specifically for research purposes. Shared DBs are common in other research fields and have made significant contributions to progress in those fields. The field of music information processing, however, has lacked a common DB of musical pieces or a large-scale D...

The possible role of photorespiration as a general stress protection mechanism, and in C(4) plant metabolism, is controversial. In particular, the potential involvement of photorespiration in the acquisition of desiccation tolerance in 'resurrection' plants is unknown. An investigation was carried out into whether photorespiration is present in leaves of the C(4) resurrection plant Sporobolus s...

The 45-days-old seedlings of drought resistant (N-22, CR143-2-2) and susceptible rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes (Panidhan, Pusa-169) were subjected to osmotic stress in PEG-6000 solution of -10 and -16 bar and the relative water content (RWC), proline content, and pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase (P5CS) activity and its P5CS expression were studied. A gradual decrease in RWC was observed in...