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A Note on Museum Making III

Effects of a novel class III antiarrhythmic agent, NIP-142, on canine atrial fibrillation and flutter.

The effects of a new benzopyran derivative, NIP-142, on atrial fibrillation (AF) and flutter (AFL) and on electrophysiological variables were studied in the dog. NIP-142 (3mg/kg) was administered intravenously to pentobarbital-anesthetized beagles during vagally-induced AF and during AFL induced after placement of an intercaval crush. Isolated canine atrial tissues were studied using standard m...

A closer look on hierarchical spectro-temporal features (HIST)

Speech recognition robust against interfering noise remains a difficult task. We previously presented a set of spectrotemporal speech features which we termed Hierarchical Spectro-Temporal (HIST) features showing improved robustness, especially when combined with RASTA-PLP. They are inspired by the receptive fields found in the mammalian auditory cortex and are organized in two hierarchical lev...

NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP)

This document describes a protocol for automating the process of creating Network Address Translation (NAT) port mappings. Included in the protocol is a method for retrieving the external IPv4 address of a NAT gateway, thus allowing a client to make its external IPv4 address and port known to peers that may wish to communicate with it. From 2005 onwards, this protocol was implemented in Apple p...

Pliny/trajan and the Poetics of Empire

T HE LAST TWO DECADES have taught us to read the Letters of the Younger Pliny in new ways.1 Perhaps very few of his twentieth-century readers were as naive as they have been portrayed, but there was a powerful temptation to treat the Letters as the more or less artless reportage of a plain man, an ordinary senator’s lightly polished testimony to the social and moral, literary and political preo...