When a speech recognition system is deployed outside the laboratory setting, it needs to handle a variety of signal variabilities. These may be due to many factors, including additive noise, acoustic echo, and speaker accent. If the speech recognition accuracy does not degrade very much under these conditions, the system is called robust. Even though there are several reasons why realworld spee...

The objective of this study was to determine the primary removal mechanisms of endocrine disruptors such as steroidal hormones present in reclaimed water, specifically 17β-estradiol, estriol, and testosterone, during groundwater recharge via soil aquifer treatment (SAT). Steroidal hormones were quantified using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. Bench-scale studies and laboratory-scale soil co...

1Neonatal Unit, Paediatric Department, King Hussein Medical Centre, Amman, Jordan (Correspondence to H.E. Aqrabawi: [email protected]). ABSTRACT Neural tube defects (NTDs) are important factors in fetal and infant mortality. There have been no studies on the incidence of NTDs in Jordan. A one-year prospective study was therefore conducted in King Hussein Medical Centre neonatal unit (April...

Cynomolgus monkeys are widely used in preclinical studies during drug development because of their evolutionary closeness to humans, including their cytochrome P450s (P450s). Most cynomolgus monkey P450s are almost identical (‡90%) to human P450s; however, CYP2C76 has low sequence identity (approximately 80%) to any human CYP2Cs. Although CYP2C76 has no ortholog in humans and is partly responsi...

This paper presents the PlanMine sequence mining algorithm to extract patterns of events that predict failures in databases of plan executions. New techniques were needed because previous data mining algorithms were overwhelmed by the staggering number of very frequent, but entirely unpredictive patterns that exist in the plan database. This paper combines several techniques for pruning out unp...

TISTESüflOi'i ST^.TEMEITT^A Ä„„,..r~~~A -f.-i-r rjuWc release; Distribution Unlimited Two years ago, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories showed that a massively parallel computer with 1024 processors could solve scientific problems more than 1000 times faster than a single processor. Since then, interest in massively parallel processing has increased dramatically. This review paper disc...

The present study was performed to evaluate the in vitro inhibitory potential of sarpogrelate and its active metabolite, M-1, on the activities of nine human cytochrome (CYP) isoforms. Using a cocktail assay, the effects of sarpogrelate on nine CYP isoforms and M-1 were measured by specific marker reactions in human liver microsomes. Sarpogrelate potently and selectively inhibited CYP2D6mediate...

1 Department of Periodontics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”; “S. Giovanni Calibita, Fatebenefratelli” Hospital 2 Odontostomatology “S. Giovanni Calibita, Fatebenefratelli” Hospital 3 Department of Odontostomatology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Foundation Policlinico “Tor Vergata” 4 Department in Periodontics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata“. Director and Chief Department of Periodonti...