Serum amylase in acute alcoholic intoxication

Serum amylase and acute abdominal disease.

Human perception of alcoholic intoxication in speech

In this paper we describe a perception experiment on intoxicated and sober speech of 161 speakers recorded in the German Alcohol Language Corpus. 72 listeners achieved an average discrimination rate of 63.1% when asked to choose from pairs of stimuli which one sounded intoxicated. Perception results were not gender-dependent and no hidden effects were found in a control group test. Since earlie...

Perception of Alcoholic Intoxication in Speech

The ALC sub-challenge of the Interspeech Speaker State Challenge (ISSC) aims at the automatic classification of speech signals into intoxicated and sober speech. In this context we conducted a perception experiment on data derived from the same corpus to analyze the human performance on the same task. The results show that human still outperform comparable baseline results of ISSC. Female and m...

Predictors of acute pancreatitis with low elevation of serum amylase

Background and aims Serum amylase is a traditional measure used to establish the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis (AP). The current study aimed to assess the predictors and clinical outcome of AP with low serum amylase. Methods All patients were divided into two groups, based on their serum amylase level within the first 2 days after hospital admission: group 1 (amylase ≥300 U/L) and group 2 (...

Quantitative Electroencephalographic Studies of Anoxia in Humans; Comparison with Acute Alcoholic Intoxication and Hypoglycemia.