Schimke immune-osseous dysplasia (SIOD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder presented with specific facial features, skeletal dysplasia, steroid resistance nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) and cellular immune insufficiency. This is a SIOD case reported from Iran. He was 5 years old boy when evaluated for proteinuria and short stature. In appearance, we detected hyperpigmented macules, kyphosc...

Recently, there has been interest in speech recognition with log-linear models that use features for whole segments, for example, words. e segmentation is oŸen taken from a conventional speech recogniser. However, this limits the performance ofmoving to a newmodel. An alternative is to nd the optimal segmentation. is requires acoustic features for all possible segments, which a recently propos...

This study investigates how different prosodic features affect native speakers' naturalness judgement of L2 English speech by Chinese students. Through subjective judgment by native speakers and objectively measured prosodic features, timing and pitch related prosodic features, as well as segmental goodness of pronunciation have been found to play key roles in native speakers' perception of nat...

Recently the initial attempt has been made to use segment-based direct models on their own for phone classification and recognition without the aid of an HMM lattice. This paper follows this line of research to further investigate these one-pass segmental direct models on phone recognition using posteriors as input. We make the first direct comparison between a frame-based system and a segmenta...

Another important issw in speech recognition has ken to identify the best feanrre subset &om a large number of features. In a given feature set, it is unlikely that all the features will contribute equally to the task of recognition and this becomes more true as the feature set grows. Methods of Liarar DiJcriminatve Analysis aim to identify the featurrs OT combinations of features which are the...