This paper describes a language/accent verification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The two-stage system is designed to be used as a pre-processing module for the Portuguese Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system developed at INESC-ID. As the ASR system is applied everyday to transcribe the evening news from a Portuguese ...

1343. Persistence of Immune Response to an Adjuvanted Varicella‐Zoster Virus Subunit Candidate Vaccine for up to Year 9 in Older Adults Karlis Pauksens, MD; Stephanie Volpe, MPH; Tino F. Schwarz, MD; Jan Smetana, MD PhD; Nicole Toursarkissian, MD; Lars Rombo, MD; Stéphanie Ravault, PhD; Marie-Pierre David, MSc; Adriana Bastidas, PhD and Lidia Oostvogels, MD; Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala...

The Portuguese version of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A) was administered to 313 Portuguese college students. Score distribution, item pass rates, item analysis, and reliability of the HGSHS:A are presented and compared to earlier published reference samples. No differences were found between males and females. Reliability of the HGSHS:A Portuguese version ...

Regulation of non-classical renin-angiotensin system receptor gene expression in the adrenal 1 medulla by acute and repeated immobilization stress 2 Regina Nostramo, Lidia Serova, Marcela Laukova, Andrej Tillinger, Chandana Peddu, Esther L. Sabban 3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 4 New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595 5 6 7 Running Title: Stress and Non-classical RAS r...

1 SEPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PHLOROTANNINS FROM 1 BROWN ALGAE Cystoseira abies-marina BY COMPREHENSIVE TWO2 DIMENSIONAL LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY. 3 Lidia Montero, Miguel Herrero*, Elena Ibáñez, Alejandro Cifuentes 4 Laboratory of Foodomics, Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL, CSIC), Nicolas 5 Cabrera 9, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. 6 7 8 Abbreviations: D1, first dimens...

1343. Persistence of Immune Response to an Adjuvanted Varicella‐Zoster Virus Subunit Candidate Vaccine for up to Year 9 in Older Adults Karlis Pauksens, MD; Stephanie Volpe, MPH; Tino F. Schwarz, MD; Jan Smetana, MD PhD; Nicole Toursarkissian, MD; Lars Rombo, MD; Stéphanie Ravault, PhD; Marie-Pierre David, MSc; Adriana Bastidas, PhD and Lidia Oostvogels, MD; Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala...