BACKGROUND/AIMS Few studies have investigated prognostic factors for the development of liver-related events (LREs) in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) who achieve sustained virological response (SVR). METHODS We analyzed 190 patients with CHC who achieved SVR after treatment with pegylated interferon (peg-IFN) plus ribavirin. LREs were defined as any complications related to cirrhosis...

Introduction: The practical value of high spatial resolution chemical shift imaging (CSI) is compromised by long total scan durations. To achieve shorter measurement times, fast pulse sequences for spectroscopic imaging (SI) can be employed at the expense of lower sensitivity relative to conventional CSI (1). Based on a gradient balanced free precession sequence Linear Response Equilibrium (LRE...

In recent years, China’s economic growth rate has slowed down significantly, exceeding the normal range of cyclical fluctuations in terms declining and period. However, research on structural problems slowdown from sector level is still limited. This paper uses a novel index decomposition method to decompose covariant effect according influence factors. It separates labor input (LIE), reallocat...

This paper aims at giving an overview of ELRA’s recent activities. The first part elaborates on ELRA’s means of boosting the sharing Language Resources (LRs) within the HLT community through its catalogues, LRE-Map initiative, as well as its work towards the integration of its LRs within the META-SHARE open infrastructure. The second part shows how ELRA helps in the development and evaluation o...

Listeria rhombencephalitis (LRE) is a rare encephalitis of the hindbrain that can present with a variety of neurological symptoms. It is a diagnostic challenge, but prompt antimicrobial therapy is important to prevent high rates of mortality and morbidity. We report two cases of LRE, with several contrasting clinical features and different disease courses. Despite being rare, it is important to...

This paper summarizes the BUT-AGNITIO system for NIST Language Recognition Evaluation 2009. The post-evaluation analysis aimed mainly at improving the quality of the data (fixing language label problems and detecting overlapping speakers in the training and development sets) and investigation of different compositions of the development set. The paper further investigates into JFA-based acousti...

A new language recognition technique based on the application of the philosophy of the Shifted Delta Coefficients (SDC) to phone log-likelihood ratio features (PLLR) is described. The new methodology allows the incorporation of long-span phonetic information at a frame-by-frame level while dealing with the temporal length of each phone unit. The proposed features are used to train an i-vector b...

Abstract We present parallel single-pixel imaging (PSI), a photography technique that captures light transport coefficients and enables the separation of direct global illumination, to achieve 3D shape reconstruction under strong illumination. PSI is achieved by extending (SI) modern digital cameras. Each pixel on an sensor considered independent unit can obtain image using SI technique. The ob...