OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the weight-for-stature (WFS) and BMI methods are not equivalent in determining expected body weight (EBW) in adolescents with eating disorders and to determine the sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value of each method to detect those <75% EBW. We hypothesized that differences in EBW would be greatest at the extremes of height. METHODS EBW...

The discrimination technique for estimating parameters of Gaussian mixtures that is based on the Extended Baum-Welch transformations (EBW) has had significant impact on the speech recognition community. In this paper we introduce a general definition of a family of EBW transformations that can be associated with a weighted sum of updated and initial models. We compute a gradient steepness measu...

An electrostatic-barrier-forming window (EBW) was devised to capture airborne pollen, which can cause allergic pollinosis. The EBW consisted of three layers of insulated conductor wires (ICWs) and two voltage generators that supplied negative charges to the two outer ICW layers and a positive charge to the middle ICW layer. The ICWs generated an attractive force that captured pollen of the Japa...

A microwave discharge ion source (MDIS) operating at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of INFN, Catania has been used to compare the traditional electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) heating with an innovative mechanisms of plasma ignition based on the electrostatic Bernstein waves (EBW). EBW are obtained via the inner plasma electromagnetic-to-electrostatic wave conversion and they are absorbed by...

Mode-converted electron Bernstein waves (EBWs) potentially allow the measurement of local electron temperature (Te) and the implementation of local heating and current drive in spherical torus (ST) devices, which are not directly accessible to low harmonic electron cyclotron waves. This paper reports on the measurement of X-mode radiation mode-converted from EBWs observed normal to the magnetic...

This paper describes how we can use the generalized BaumWelch (GBW) algorithm to develop better extended BaumWelch (EBW) algorithms. Based on GBW, we show that the backoff term in the EBW algorithm comes from KL-divergence which is used as a regularization function. This finding allows us to develop a fast EBW algorithm, which can reduce the time of model space discriminative training by half, ...

Electron Bernstein waves (EBW) are suitable for heating, current drive, and radiation temperature measurements of overdense plasma, ωpe>>ωce , in spherical torus devices. In NSTX, design of a multi-megawatt EBW current drive system is supported by experimental measurements and computations of obliquely viewing, dual-polarization EBW emission (EBE) radiometry. Efficient EBW coupling, 80±20% at 1...