Crude incidence rates (per 105) were 181 in urban and 149 in rural (ASR: 149 in urban & 122 in rural) with 21% higher incidence (CI:1.2-1.3) and 7% mortality (CI:=1.0-1.16) and lower fatality (mortality/incidence) (38.3% urban vs. 43.0% rural) in urban. Common cancers were lung (CR: 19.2, ASR: 15.4), prostate (CR: 19.0, ASR: 15.0) and colo-rectum (CR: 15.3, ASR: 12.4) in urban and lung (CR: 21....

* Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] The Escherichia coli asr gene and its orthologues in the genomes of other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae represent stress response elements regulated by a low environmental acidity (pH < 5.0) [1]. They code for small basic 82–139 amino acid proteins of unknown function. While important for exponential phase E. coli growth in ...

This paper presents a solution to evaluate spoken post-editing of imperfect machine translation output by a human translator. We compare two approaches to the combination of machine translation (MT) and automatic speech recognition (ASR): a heuristic algorithm and a machine learning method. To obtain a data set with spoken post-editing information, we use the French version of TED talks as the ...

Parsing speech requires a richer representation than 1-best or n-best hypotheses, e.g. lattices. Moreover, previous work shows that part-of-speech (POS) tags are a valuable resource for parsing. In this paper, we therefore explore a joint modeling approach of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and POS tagging to enrich ASR word lattices. To that end, we manipulate the ASR process from the prono...

We are interested in the problem of robust understanding from noisy spontaneous speech input. With the advances in automated speech recognition (ASR), there has been increasing interest in spoken language understanding (SLU). A challenge in large vocabulary spoken language understanding is robustness to ASR errors. State of the art spoken language understanding relies on the best ASR hypotheses...

This study was designed to evaluate the possible similarities between two paradigms designed to measure sensory gating: (1) an auditory evoked potential (AEP), called the P50 gating paradigm; and (2) an acoustic startle (ASR), called the prepulse inhibition paradigm. These paradigms show a number of methodological, pharmacological, and neurobiological similarities, and they are both disturbed i...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for multilingual audio contents, such as international conference recordings and broadcast news, is addressed. For handling such contents efficiently, a simultaneous ASR is promising. Conventionally, ASR has been performed independently, namely language by language, although multilingual speech, which consists of utterances in several languages representing th...

Anabaena sensory rhodopsin (ASR) is an archaeal-type rhodopsin found in eubacteria. The gene encoding ASR forms a single operon with ASRT (ASR transducer) which is a 14 kDa soluble protein, suggesting that ASR functions as a photochromic sensor by activating the soluble transducer. This article reviews the detailed photoreaction processes of ASR, which were studied by low-temperature Fourier-tr...