PURPOSE Infants on prolonged breastfeeding are known to grow slower during the first year of life. It is still unclear if such effects are similar in offspring exposed to gestational diabetes (GDM) in utero. We examined the associations of infant milk feeding on postnatal growth from birth till 36 months of age in offspring exposed and unexposed to GDM. METHODS Pregnant mothers undertook 75 g...

background and objective: neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of meningitis and sepsis worldwide. the factor h binding protein (fhbp) is a key virulence factor of neisseria meningitidis that is able to selectively bind to human factor h, the key regulator of the alternative complement pathway, which it has important implications for meningococcal pathogene- sis and vaccine design. the aim...

This work focuses on the significance of particle's residence time in composite electrodeposition. Ni-SiC were produced using different pulse-reverse (PR) waveforms based average particle diameter (60 nm). The waveform was designed to deposit a metal thickness equivalent during cathodic pulse and strip half anodic pulse. shape modified study its effect codeposition by changing current density p...

The thermodynamic parameters of interaction between calf thymus histone H A and dodecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (DTAB), a cationic surfactant, in aqueous solutions of pH 3.2, 6.4 and 10.0 were measured over a wide range of DTAB concentrations by equilibrium dialysis at 27°C and 37°C and are discussed. The data are used to determine the free energy from the Wyman binding potential theore...

fractional flow analysis confirms the advantages of surfactant alternative gas injection (sag) in enhanced oil recovery, but an adsorption phenomenon that has been affected by several factors, weakens the effectiveness of sag injection. in this study, the effects of sacrificial agent, gas phase, and surfactant concentration on adsorption density on silica mineral were investigated by static and...

Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS ́s) is a technology that provides users with a speech based interaction with machines to carry out several activities in the pursuit of their goals (information retrieval, business transactions, automatic translation, etc.). Development of this kind of systems needs an evaluation process to show the real system performance, to identify implementation errors, etc. The...

The spectral (both absorption and fluorescence) and photoelectrochemical studies of some anionic xanthene dyes namely erythrosine B, rose bengal and eosin have been carried out in micellar solution of cationic cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB), anionic sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and neutral triton X-100 (TX-100). The results show that all these dyes form 1:1 electron-donor-acceptor (ED...

We develop a diagnostic method for detecting problematic dialogue strategies in spoken dialogue systems (SDS). Our tool classifies relations between semantically-pragmatically labelled system prompts and user inputs in a Dutch SDS corpus, and constructs a dependency/frequency graph that provides rich information about the underlying interaction process. The graph can be directly analysed to spe...

The advances of speech processing technologies make it possible to build spoken dialogue systems (SDS) which may provide people with useful information. However, most current SDS can only deal with one speaker a time, improvements should be made before the SDS can be applied to domains where multiple speakers interact with the system. This paper discusses research issues for developing a multi-...

A spoken dialogue system (SDS) is a specialised form of computer system that operates as an interface between users and the application, using spoken natural language as the primary means of communication. The motivation for spoken interaction with such systems is that it allows for a natural and efficient means of communication. It is for this reason that the use of an SDS has been considered ...