In this paper, we describe a technique to model frequent allophones in Japanese speech recognition. The Consonant-Vowel syllabic structure (CV) is dominant in Japanese. Based on frequency, the distribution of CV pairs is rather skewed. Isolating out the most frequent allophones through the use of additional phonemes in acoustic modeling can achieve better recognition accuracy. By introducing te...

BACKGROUND The King's Obesity Staging Criteria (KOSC) comprises of a four-graded set of health related domains. We aimed to examine whether, according to KOSC, patients undergoing bariatric surgery differed from those opting for conservative treatment. METHODS We graded 2142 consecutive patients with morbid obesity attending our centre from 2005-10 into the following KOSC domains: airway/apno...

OBJECTIVES To develop evidence-based EULAR recommendations for cardiovascular (CV) risk management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS A multidisciplinary expert committee was convened as a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee for Clinical Affairs (ESCCA), comprising 18 members including rheumatologists, cardiolo...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is known to increase the risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease. However, the individual impact of traditional CV risk factors in RA is unknown. OBJECTIVE To assess the strength of the association between individual CV risk factors and rate of either myocardial infarction (MI), combined CV morbidity (MI, angina pectoris, heart failure, stroke, and peripheral ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the presence of subtitles on a distracting, silent video affects the automatic mismatch negativity (MMN) response to simple tones, consonant-vowel (CV) nonwords, or CV words. Two experiments were conducted in this study, each including ten healthy young adult subjects. Experiment 1 investigated the effects of subtitles on the MMN response to si...