BACKGROUND/AIMS To determine the impact of prosthetic replacement of the ocular surface ecosystem (PROSE) treatment at 5 years. METHODS Retrospective review of clinical, manufacturing and quality databases at the Boston Foundation for Sight. RESULTS 121 patients who completed treatment and had 5-year follow-up data were identified from a cohort of patients (n=199) seen in consultation for P...

A research project on timing relations in prose, poetry and music is outlined. In order to gain a deeper understanding of speech prosody, a comparison will be made of timing relations in such activities as reading of poetry and music performance, where there usually is a strong and obvious rhythmic patterning of the produced sound sequences. Also there are interesting parallels to be drawn by c...

The goal in speech enhancement is to obtain an estimateof clean speech starting from the noisy signal by minimizing a chosendistortion measure, which results in an estimate that depends onthe unknown clean signal or its statistics. Since access to suchprior knowledge is limited or not possible in practice, one hasto estimate the clean signal statistics. In this paper, we dev...

Currently, verbally dictating commands and programs to a computer is not practical because in our experiments, 10% to 15% of the words and 30% to 80% of the commands and statements were misrecognized by the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Interpreting Noisy Prose (INP) is a post ASR algorithm designed to execute on and utilize the extensive computing power of heterogeneous multi-cor...

Pointing Deictic gestures, or points, have the obvious function of indicating objects around the narrator, but they also play a part in narrations where there is nothing objectively present to point at. Although the gesture space may look empty, to the speaker it is filled with discourse entities. Deictic gestures establish in space the participants of a narrative and the participant events. An...