Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVM) are abnormal communications between pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins, and most commonly congenital in nature. Although rare, it is an important consideration in cyanotic patients of unknown cause. We report 3 cases with diffuse PAVM in children with different clinical manifestations and initial diagnosis was made by transthoracic contrast echoc...

“They are like old soldiers,” said Leo and once again I marvelled at his knack for distilling the essence in just a few words. We were sitting high up in the stadium, Leo Khachiyan, my wife Markéta, and I. Three people with a university education and not one of us had the sense to bring along a hip flask. So now we were shivering in the cold October evening while down below Mick and Keith swagg...

Recognition of second language speech is still a challenging task even for state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Considering that second language speech usually includes less fluent pronunciation and mispronunciation even when it is grammatically correct, we propose a novel phonetic decision tree (PDT) method considering integrated acoustic and linguistic features to deri...

WordSmith Tools (Scott, 1998) offers a program for comparing corpora, known as

In this paper, the complete stability domain for both singleand multi-parameter dependent LTI systems is synthesized by extending existing results in the literature. This domain is calculated through a guardian map which involves the determinant of the Kronecker sum of a matrix with itself. The single parameter case is easily computable, whereas the multi-parameter case is more involved. The de...

In this paper, the spectral expression of the frequency-limited H2-norm, firstly presented in [18], is extended to the case of LTI dynamical systems which are not diagonalizable. This extension is achieved by considering partial fraction decomposition of the transfer function associated to a system which is in a Jordan form. Besides, examples are presented to illustrate the behaviour of the fre...

A b stract: In the present paper, a new strategy for robust filtering problem of linear timeinvariant (LTI) continuous time system is proposed. The key idea consists in generalizing the structure of a linear state estimator of the Luenberger class. As a matter of fact, the closed loop form of this class of state estimator can be assimilated to a closed loop control problem. Then, the standard c...

main purpose of the present research is to invent some tools for confirming hypotheses in analytic-reasoning researches. for this regard, the analytic research is used. the present tools, weighting to reasons tool (wrt) and repeat reasoning tool (rrt) are used for evaluating hypotheses of the current research. the results of the wrt shows that reasons weight (rw) for the first hypothesis is 8 a...

The Beef Information Nucleus is a series of large, well structured progeny test programs undertaken by Breed Societies with cofunding assistance from Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA). Young bulls of high genetic merit are joined by either AI or natural mating to a commercial cow base to produce progeny which are managed commercially as one cohort and measured for a range of economically traits....