Speech media, that is, digital audio and video containing spoken content, has blossomed in recent years. Large collections are accruing on the Internet as well as in private and enterprise settings. This growth has motivated extensive research on techniques and technologies that facilitate reliable indexing and retrieval. Spoken content retrieval (SCR) requires the combination of audio and spee...

Studies of concurrent central, and autonomic activity using a conventional event-related potential (ERP) oddball paradigms, are considered useful in elucidating the relationship between central and autonomic responses, but the autonomic response tends to overlap. A new method was used to decompose and score overlapping skin conductance responses (SCR). This method enabled examination of dynamic...

Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have been developing a formal method, known as the SCR (Software Cost Reduction) method, to specify the requirements of software systems using tables. NRL has developed a formal state machine model de ning the SCR semantics and support tools for analysis and validation. Recently, a veri cation capability was added to the SCR toolset. Users can ...

The removals of NOx by catalytic technology at low temperatures (100–300 °C) for industrial flue gas treatment have received increasing attention. However, the development of low temperature catalysts for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx with ammonia is still a challenge especially in the presence of SO2. The current status of using Mn-based catalysts for low temperature SCR of NOx wi...

The normal expression of the homeotic gene Sex combs reduced (Scr) is initially restricted to parasegment 2, later extends to 3, and by germ band retraction extends further to part of parasegment 4 (T1p). We find that in the absence of the bithorax complex (BX-C) genes there is Scr expression in the epidermis of the posterior compartments of the thoracic and abdominal parasegments. This ectopic...

In Drosophila, the Deformed (Dfd) and Sex combs reduced (Scr) genes determined the developmental pathways followed by the most anterior metameric units. Using in situ hybridization, we have monitored the spatial distributions of transcripts from these two genes. Dfd RNA accumulates in parasegments 0 and 1; Scr RNA accumulation shows a dynamic pattern spanning parasegments 2 and 3. The expressio...

A 0.5 wt.% Pt/TiO2 catalyst was prepared and used for the low-temperature selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NO with C3H6 in the presence of excess oxygen. The effects of Pt loading and O2 concentration on Pt/TiO2 catalytic performance for low-temperature SCR were investigated. It was found that optimal Pt loading was 0.5 wt.% and excess O2 favored low-temperature SCR of NOx. The mechanism ...

Pulse IV methylprednisolone therapy is the intermittent administration of supraphysiological quantities of the drug to enhance its therapeutic effects while reducing its toxic effects.1 A typical pulse regimen ranges from 500 to 1000 mg IV daily for 2–4 consecutive days.1,2 It has been suggested that methylprednisolone may cause an acute increase in serum creatinine (SCr), which can be misinter...

Most patients are discharged early (within 24 hours) after coronary angiography (CAG) and may miss identification the late (24-48 hours) increase in serum creatinine (SCr), whose characteristics and prognosis have been less intensively investigated.We prospectively recruited 3065 consecutive patients with SCr measurement, including only1344 patients with twice SCr measurement (both early and la...

AIM To investigate a possible association between the biomechanical load and unload behaviour and the elastin content of the sclera canal ring (SCR) and a superiorly localized sclera ring (SPS) in the porcine eye. METHODS Two sclera rings were trephined from each of 40 porcine eyes, one containing the SCR and the other an SPS. The load and the unload curves were measured in the extension rang...