We describe two methods that aim at normalizing acoustic vectors at the filterbank level such that the test data distribution matches the training data distribution. They enhance the histogram normalization technique proposed earlier by taking care of the variable silence fraction for each speaker, and by rotating the feature space. We report a number of recognition tests under minor (different...

Objectives: The present study is to evaluate Virtual Touch Tissue Quantification (VTQ) technique in the prevention of submandibular gland damage in patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) after Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). Material and method: A total of 61 patients diagnosed with NPC were treated with IMRT. All the patients underwent Ultrasonography (US) while submandibul...

We investigate the four-body decays $B_{(s)} \rightarrow (K\pi)_{S/P} (K\pi)_{S/P}$ in $K\pi$-pair invariant mass region around $K^*(892)$ resonance perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach, where $(K\pi)_{S/P}$ denotes a $S$- or $P$-wave $K\pi$ configuration. The contributions from and possible $S$-wave components are included into parametrization of two-meson distribution amplitudes, which nonperturb...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder and the most common form of dementia. Almost 47 million people suffer from dementia worldwide. AD accounts for approximately 60%–80% of all dementia cases. Three major pathologies characterize the disease: senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and inflammation. We review the literature on events contributing to the inflammat...

The variance in the number of counts of the cumulative histogram, used for the characterization of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with the Histogram Method, is calculated without any restrictions regarding the magnitude of the frequency errors on the stimulus and sampling signals, number of periods of the stimulus signal, and number of samples. The formulation adopted allows a graphical in...

Sun X-P, Chen B-M, Sand O, Kidokoro Y, Grinnell AD. Depolarization-induced Ca entry preferentially evokes release of large quanta in the developing Xenopus neuromuscular junction. J Neurophysiol 104: 2730–2740, 2010. First published September 15, 2010; doi:10.1152/jn.01041.2009. The amplitude histogram of spontaneously occurring miniature synaptic currents (mSCs) is skewed positively at develop...