BACKGROUND The impact of timing of genetic testing on surgical decision making in women with breast cancer and BRCA mutation is not well known. METHODS Women who were found to carry a deleterious BRCA mutation and had been diagnosed with breast cancer were identified from a database at Beaumont Health. Women who had received BRCA positive results at least a day prior to their index surgery we...

Recently, a rapid growth in the population in urban regions demands the provision of services and infrastructure. These needs can be come up wit the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as sensors, actuators, smartphones and smart systems. This leans to building Smart City towards the next generation Super City planning. However, as thousands of IoT devices are interconnecting and comm...

We propose a method that is able to analyze chaotic time series, gained from experimental data. The method allows to identify scalar time-delay systems. If the dynamics of the system under investigation is governed by a scalar time-delay differential equation of the form dy(t) dt = h(y(t), y(t−τ0)), the delay time τ0 and the function h can be recovered. There are no restrictions to the dimensio...

In this paper we describe the techniques and methodology developed for automatic labeling of segmental and prosodic information for the Mandarin speech database. There are two major procedures. First, the text is converted into the phonetic network of possible pronunciations, and this network is aligned with the speech data by recognition processes. Secondly, many acoustic prosodic features are...

In this work, we quantify common tonal and phonetic errors made by second language learners of Mandarin Chinese. Pronunciation patterns of 300 native speakers of European languages are analyzed. Tonal errors (30.56%) are found to be more prevalent than phonetic ones (8.71%). Common errors include overemphasis of Tone 3 and inadequate aspiration of affricate consonants. Decision tree clustering ...

We describe preliminary work on the detection of word fragments in Mandarin conversational telephone speech. We extracted prosodic, voice quality, and lexical features, and trained Decision Tree and SVM classifiers. Previous research shows that glottalization features are instrumental in English fragment detection. However, we show that Mandarin fragments are quite different than English; 90% o...

In this paper we present the performance analysis of different data mining techniques to predict the inpatient hospital length of stay in a super specialty hospital. Data set used for the analysis is real time data taken from super specialty hospital. Pre-processed data set is generated from the electronic discharge summaries obtained from the hospital. This data set consists of 401 records wit...