in order to prevent water losses through disposing hydrous sludge during treatment of water, also recovery and reuse of chemicals; treatment by magnesium carbonate as a coagulant was examined in batch and continuous systems. 600 mg/1 mgco3 as optimum dosage reduced 80% turbidity of a highly turbid water containing 200 ntu. sulfates decreased, but hardness and alkalinity showed some increases. r...

background: the reliability and safety of gas refineries are strongly associated with the reliability of other parts of the system. defect and failure in one part of a system can cause total system breakdown or accident. the failure and damage in these equipment such as transformers and boilers results in not only the equipment damage and human injuries but also productivity reduction. the purp...

objective: to evaluate the current scientific evidence for the applicability, safety and effectiveness of pathways of enhanced recovery after emergency surgery (eras). methods: we undertook a search using pubmed and cochrane databases for eras protocols in emergency cases. the search generated 65 titles; after eliminating the papers not meeting search criteria, we selected 4 cohort studies and ...

Chronic conditions impact on health systems is becoming more and more important as approximately 10% of patients receive 70% of total health system costs. Life expectancy increase is pushing up chronic conditions prevalence and thus patient polypharmacy treatments. Consequently, DRP percentages are rising up. To face this new front, health systems are setting policies in order to manage related...

The potential of using ASR n-best lists for dialogue systems has often been recognised (if less often realised): it is often the case that even when the top-ranked hypothesis is erroneous, a better one can be found at a lower rank. In this paper, we describe metrics for evaluating whether the same potential carries over to incremental dialogue systems, where ASR output is consumed and reacted u...

In this paper we present an overview of an automatic speech recognition system implementation in the context of embedded systems. Specific challenges presented by low resource platforms will be addressed for the basic components of an ASR decoder. Our main objective is to utilize and modify the technology developed for large vocabulary ASR to achieve efficient LVCSR on embedded systems as well.

A Dual-Type automatic speech recogniser (ASR) is a multi-pass ASR system that incorporates both a speaker-independent (SI) and a speaker-dependent (SD) ASR. The purpose of this approach is to improve the robustness of spoken dialogue systems for a broader range of applications. This paper identifies feasible Dual-Type multi-pass ASR system designs that are intended to overcome limitations arisi...