Catapres is a new imidazoline compound with potent antihypertensive properties. Significant reduction in blood pressure occurs between 1 and 4 hours after oral administration, with the peak effect occurring at 2 to 4 hours and the antihypertensive effect extending for 6 to 10 hours. Blood pressure is reduced in both the supine and erect positions, although the orthostatic response is the more p...

A severe rebound rise in blood pressure with agitation and insomnia had been noted in five patients when they had previously ceased clonidine (Catapres) This has been shown to be reproducible in these patients and to be associated with a significant increase in urinary catecholamine excretion. The blood pressure can be controlled and the symptoms alleviated promptly by alpha and beta adrenergic...

The paper describes some results of the research which aiming at filling the gap in introducing and promoting computerized speech technology for Slavonic languages, in particular, a technology of TTS synthesis for Belarusian, Polish and Russian. A typological analysis of the peculiarities of phonemic and allophonic systems of Belarussian, Polish and Russian languages is given. Based on the resu...

C lonidine hydrochloride (Catapres) represents a new type of antihypertensive agent which acts to reduce blood pressure by central inhibition of sympathetic vasomotor and cardioexcitatory stimuli.‘s2 We have previously demonstrated its antihypertensive effectiveness particularly when combined with a diuretic.3 The drug has been shown to have long-term effectiveness in the treatment of severe hy...

formulation as blue-coloured, sweet-tasting tablets, and in the fact that it is prescribed for migraine, a relatively non-serious disease. Dixarit is probably regarded as a non-dangerous drug, being stored in places accessible to children, while, by contrast, the antihypertensive Catapres is treated with appropriate respect. We hope that this article will alert doctors prescribing Dixarit so th...

This paper is about constructing sharable linguistic information to be used across languages for a Text-to-Speech (TTS) system. The data is obtained from existing resources. The focus of the paper is the phonetic and linguistic aspects. A monolingual TTS architecture is introduced with descriptions on each stage of processing. A multilingual TTS architecture is also introduced. Language depende...

In this paper we discuss the implementation of an Afrikaans TTS system that is based on diphones. Using diphones makes the system flexible but presents other challenges. A previous effort to design an Afrikaans TTS system was done by SUN. They implemented a TTS system based on full words. A full word based TTS system produces more natural sounding speech than when the system is designed using o...

INTRODUCTION Although RTS as HIV Diagnosis was considered cost effectiveness [1], overall budget may be unaffordable for some countries. We explore Incremental cost per NDHI associated with different TS. MATERIALS AND METHODS From a health care perspective, using direct costs and Euros currency, we calculated budget and cost per NDHI of RTS (all patients were tested), TTS (Universal risk prac...