OBJECTIVES Asymptomatic rejection after heart transplant is difficult to detect by noninvasive methods. The present study investigated the efficacy of echocardiographic strain and the strain rate imaging method in detecting rejection after pediatric heart transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fourteen pediatric patients with heart transplant were examined both with endomyocardial biopsy and strai...

This paper proposes an efficient anti-keyword derivation method to improve the rejection performance of keyword spotting. In this method, each anti-keyword is derived from the large vocabulary lexicon considering acoustic similarity to keywords, making use of the confusion matrix. Experimental results show that a 3 % improvement of the rejection rate is obtained compared to conventional methods...

background: monitoring of phenotypic characteristics of t-lymphocytes in peripheral blood is commonly performed to give the clinical parameters in the management of kidney transplant recipients.   objective: to predict rejection in renal transplantation by immune parameters. methods: 16 non-diabetic kidney transplant candidates (4 females and 12 males, age = 20-65 yr, first time transplant) wer...

Purpose: Transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) individuals often are the target of enacted or external (i.e., distal) experiences of stigma, discrimination, and violence, which are linked to adverse health, particularly psychological distress. There is limited research, however, examining felt or internal (i.e., proximal) stressors faced by TGNC individuals. This study sought to examine o...

Spontaneous blastogenesis (SB) of peripheral blood lymphocytes was studied by determining protein synthesis using 3H-leucine to establish an immunological monitoring method after renal transplantation. In acute rejection, the SB level was twice as high as those in ATN and in the quiescent state. A rise in SB level comparable to that in rejection was observed in patients with infection. The SB l...

In this paper we present a method to generate independent samples for a general random variable, either continuous or discrete. The algorithm is an extension of the Acceptance-Rejection method, and it is particularly useful for kinetic simulation in which the rates are fluctuating in time and have singular limits, as occurs for example in simulation of recombination interactions in a plasma. Al...

In this paper, we describe our effort in developing new method of false alarm rejection for keyword spotting type of speech recognition system. This false alarm rejection uses prosodic similarities, and works as posterior rescore basis. In keyword spotting, there is always false alarm problem. Here, we propose a technique to reject those false alarms using prosodic features. In Japanese, prosod...

The generalized inverse Gaussian distribution has become quite popular in financial engineering. The most popular random variate generator is due to Dagpunar (1989). It is an acceptance-rejection algorithm method based on the Ratio-of-uniforms method. However, it is not uniformly fast as it has a prohibitive large rejection constant when the distribution is close to the gamma distribution. Rece...

In this work, a new control method for uncertain processes is developed based on two-degree-of-freedom control structure. The setpoint tracking controller designed by input/output linearization technique is used to regulate the disturbance-free output and the disturbance rejection controller designed is designed by high-gain technique. The advantage of two-degree-of-freedom control structure is...

Abstract: One of basic principle of any organization is to assure about obtained figures from measuring products. If the measured data was not trusted, will be lead to a wrong decisions regarding the approval or rejection of products and obviously the cost would be great. First cases in measurement systems analysis which crossing minds are criteria for approval or rejection any mea...