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OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of incident choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in observed and treated eyes in the Complications of Age-related Macular Degeneration Prevention Trial (CAPT). DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study within a multicenter, randomized clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS Patients who developed CNV during CAPT follow-up. METHODS Inclusion criteria for CAPT sp...

This article describes the CALST project, in which the primary aim is to develop Ville-N, a CAPT system for learners of Norwegian as a second language. Since there is no accepted pronunciation standard in Norwegian, the system uses four dialects (represented by one male and one female speaker each). Ville-N makes use of L1-L2map, a tool for multilingual contrastive analysis, to generate a list ...

The present article describes the development of L1-L2map, a multi-lingual contrastive analysis tool. It uses the phoneme inventories of a large number of languages, but also contains more detailed phonetic information. An example of this is the information about the syllable positions in which the sounds can occur in a given language, which is very useful for computer-assisted pronunciation tr...

A comparison of left ventricular ejection time (LVET) measured directly from the central aortic pressure tracing (CAPT) and a densitogram recording was carried out in 39 patients during diagnostic cardiac catheterization. The correlation coefficient between the LVET derived from the CAPT and densitogram of 32 patients while at rest was 0.974 with a standard deviation from regression (SDR) of 6....

One of the biggest problem areas in relation to Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) applications, designed for Second Language Learning (SLL), has been that of feedback. As with human teachers, the ultimate goal of CAPT is to provide instantaneous, individualized feedback to the user on the overall quality of the pronunciation made. Attempts at accomplishing this goal have seen the ...

In this paper the application of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology in CAPT (Computer Aided Pronunciation Training) is addressed. A method to automatically generate the competitive lexicon, required by an ASR engine to compare the pronunciation of a target word with its correct and wrong phonetic realization, is presented. In order to enable the efficient deployment of CAPT applicati...

BACKGROUND The Complications of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Prevention Trial (CAPT) is a randomized clinical trial to evaluate whether prophylactic laser treatment to the retina can prevent the complications of the advanced stage of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of irreversible blindness. METHODS CAPT is conducted in 23 clinical centers and in three central re...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of statin use on the incidence of advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and its components, choroidal neovascularization (CNV) and geographic atrophy (GA), among patients with bilateral large drusen. DESIGN Cohort study within a multicenter, randomized, clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS Patients enrolled in the Complications of Age-related Macular Degen...