This paper describes a new approach to acoustic mod-eling for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) systems. Each phone is modeled with a large Gaussian mixture model (GMM) whose context-dependent mixture weights are estimated with a sentence-level discrim-inative training criterion. The estimation problem is casted in a neural network framework, which enables the incorporation...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare the marginal adaptation of mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) and calcium-enriched mixture(cem) cement apical plugs in open apex teeth in dry, blood- and saliva-contaminated canals. methods and materials: a total of 120 human extracted single-rooted teeth were used. the teeth were decoronated and canals were cleaned and shaped up to #80 k-files. ...

diagnosis of corneal diseases is possible by measuring and evaluation of corneal thickness in different layers. thus, the need for precise segmentation of corneal layer boundaries is inevitable. obviously, manual segmentation is time‑consuming and imprecise. in this paper, the gaussian mixture model (gmm) is used for automatic segmentation of three clinically important corneal boundaries on opt...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare the discoloration potential of calcium-enriched mixture (cem) cement, white mineral trioxide aggregate (wmta) and calcium hydroxide (ch), after placement in pulp chamber. methods and materials: access cavities were prepared in 40 intact maxillary central incisors. then, a 2×2 mm box was prepared on the middle third of the inner surface on the b...

background : so far, several studies were conducted to estimate the prevalence of cigarette smoking in iran, but none of them used a statistical model to deal with unobserved smokers. the present study planned to estimate the accurate prevalence of cigarette smoking using mixture of truncated poisson distribution. methods : a cross-sectional study was conducted in hamadan, west of iran in 2009,...

background: the two most frequently diagnosed cancers among women worldwide are breast and cervical cancers. the objective of the present study was to classify the different countries based on the death rates from sex specific cancers. methods : in this cross-sectional study, we used dataset regarding death rate from breast, cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancers in 190 countries worldwide repo...

this work was aimed to evaluate and compare the performances of the solvents d2ehpa (di-(2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid), cyanex 272 (bis (2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) phosphinic acid), and a mixture system of d2ehpa and cyanex272 in the separation of some rare earth elements (rees) including lanthanum, gadolinium, neodymium, and dyspersym from a nitric acid solution. the results obtained showed that ...

water plays a vital and essential role in our ecosystem. this natural resource is becoming scarce, making its availability a major social and economic concern. use of a large variety of synthetic dyes in textile industries has raised an hazardous environmental alert. about 17 - 20% of freshwater pollution is caused by textile effluents. these effluents are recalcitrant to biodegradation and cau...

in a voice conversion system speech signal of a speaker (i.e. source speaker) is modified so that it sounds as if it had been pronounced by b speaker (i.e. target speaker). this process, sometimes, is called speaker conversion (changing speaker identity). achieved signal from speaker conversion system is desired to have high quality and very natural. to satisfy this, three major methods are pro...

oil in water emulsions have attracted considerable attention in food industry due to their large applications. in this study, the effect of thermal treatment on oil in water emulsions (o/w) containing 40% oil was studied. the emulsions were prepared using xanthan gum, guar gum and carboxymethyl cellulose as stabilizer and polyoxyethylen sorbitan monooleat as emulsifier. a mixture design was use...