Human perception is capable of integrating local events to generate an overall impression at the global level; this is evident in daily life and is utilized repeatedly in behavioral science studies to bring objective measures into studies of human behavior. In this work, we explore two hypotheses considering whether it is the isolated-saliency or the causal-integration of information that can t...

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the objective of the study was to compare pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters of gliclazide after administration of immediate (ir) and modified release (mr) tablets. the experiment included rats with both normoglyceamia and streptozocin (stz)-induced hyperglyceamia. several mr formulations were designed and in vitro drug release profile was assessed by a dissolution test. for the fur...

Classification of multi class images is very enviable for different recognition. This is affected by many factors such as noise, blur, low illumination, complex background, occlusion etc. Noise is one of the major factors causing degradation of the classification performance. This paper proposes an efficient method for classification of multi class object images which are corrupted by Gaussian ...

Human overnutrition has caused a rise in the prevalence of obesity in recent years. In addition to the deleterious effects of obesity during childhood, long-term effects in adulthood have been described as well. For instance, cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes are among the diseases associated with a history of obesity. Altered insulin secretion and action have been described as import...

Owing to recent advances in computing power, iterative reconstruction (IR) algorithms have become a clinically viable option in computed tomographic (CT) imaging. Substantial evidence is accumulating about the advantages of IR algorithms over established analytical methods, such as filtered back projection. IR improves image quality through cyclic image processing. Although all available soluti...

Automatic estimation of word significance oriented for speech-based Information Retrieval (IR) is addressed. Since the significance of words differs in IR, automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance has been evaluated based on weighted word error rate (WWER), which gives a weight on errors from the viewpoint of IR, instead of word error rate (WER), which treats all words uniformly. A decodi...