An approach is presented in this paper for vowel classification by analyzing the dynamics of speech production in a reconstructed phase space. The proposed approach has the ability of capturing nonlinearities that may exist in speech production. Global flow reconstruction is used to generate a quantitative description of the structure and trajectory of vowel attractors in a reconstructed phase ...

Time series forecasting by fuzzy inference systems based on optimal non-uniform attractor embedding in the multidimensional delay phase space is analyzed in this paper. A near-optimal set of time lags is identified by evolutionary algorithms after the optimal dimension of the reconstructed phase space is determined by the FNN (false nearest neighbors) algorithm. The fitness function is construc...

In this paper, we compare the ranked probability score (RPS) and the probability score (PS) and examine the nature of the sensitivity of the RPS to distance. First, we briefly describe the nature of and the relationship between the frameworks within which the RPS and the PS were formulated. Second, we considsr certain properties of the RPS and the PS including their range, their values for cate...

BACKGROUND Strains of viridans group streptococci that initiate colonization of the human tooth surface typically coaggregate with each other and with Actinomyces naeslundii, another member of the developing biofilm community. These interactions generally involve adhesin-mediated recognition of streptococcal receptor polysaccharides (RPS). The objective of our studies is to understand the role ...

OBJECTIVES To report the utilization of a new transoral surgery system, i.e. transoral videolaryngoscopic surgery (TOVS) with a navigation system, for the removal of a metastatic retropharyngeal lymph node (RPLN). CASE REPORT An 86-year-old woman with tongue cancer (cT2N0M0) underwent partial glossectomy and left selective neck dissection. Three months postoperatively, a left metastatic RPLN ...

Transplantation of retinal cells has recently provided a promising therapeutic approach for retinal degeneration. Here, we differentiated initially retinal progenitors (RPs) from adherent feeder-free human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) with the use of defined media supplemented with a specific combination of growth factors. The differentiated RPs highly (>80%) expressed related molecular feature...

This paper presents a study of the attractor variation in the reconstructed phase spaces of isolated phonemes. The approach is based on recent work in timedomain signal classification using dynamical signal models, whereby a statistical distribution model is obtained from the phase space and used for maximum likelihood classification. Two sets of experiments are presented in this paper. The fir...

After the Fukushima nuclear accident, safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is widespread concerned. The reliability of reactor protection system (RPS) is directly related to the safety of NPPs, however, it is difficult to accurately evaluate the reliability of digital RPS. The method is based on estimating probability has some uncertainties, which can not reflect the reliability status of RPS ...

The longitudinal phase space distribution of electron beam plays critical role in ultra-short electron bunch production, coherent radiation, free electron laser (FEL) and many other applications. Photocathode RF gun is capable of controlling not only the transverse emittance of electron beam, but also longitudinal emittance. The longitudinal phase space distribution of photoelectron beam was in...