The short and long term creep behavior is one of the most important properties of polymers used for engineering applications. In order to study this kind of behavior of PP tensile and short term creep measurements were performed and analyzed using long term creep behavior estimating method based on short term tensile and creep tests performed at room temperature, viscoelastic behavior, and vari...

The objective of this work is to investigate whether joint optimization of short-term and long-term predictors manifests significant advantages over the sequential optimization in speech coding. We propose a new joint optimization method based on Wiener filtering. The proposed analysis model resolves the pitch-bias problem of classical LPC analysis by considering the contribution of the long-te...

The present study seeks to investigate the potentiality of the translation task as a testing method for measuring reading comprehension. To achieve this objective, two types of translation tests, open-ended and multiple-choice tests, and two types of reading comprehension tests, multiple-choice reading comprehension and open-ended cloze tests were developed in this study. The reliability of the...

This paper aims at reporting the recent progress of search on our intelligent robot KeJia, whose long-term goal is to develop and integrate intelligence into a domestic robot. It covers issues ranging from hardware design, perception and high-level cognitive functions. All these techniques have been tested in former RoboCup@Home tests and other open demostrations.

With respect to the high burden of ischemic stroke and the absence of pharmacological treatment for promoting rehabilitation, promising candidates with specific effects on long-term functional recovery are highly desired. Candidates need reasonable experimental paradigms to evaluate the long-term functional outcome focused on ischemia-induced sensorimotor and memory deficits. "Danshen", a tradi...

the liver is a multifactorial organ which is involved in a number of critical excretory, synthetic and metabolic functions. although the term 'liver function test' is commonly used, it is imprecise since many of the tests, such as transaminase, do not measure liver function. therefore, these tests should be referred to as 'liver enzyme tests', and 'liver function tests' should be the term used ...