Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) is a spectroscopic technique that involves the excitation of a molecular target by a beam of laser radiation followed by the detection of the subsequent emission of radiation from the target. LIF detection has several advantages over absorption spectroscopy. First, LIF has excellent detection sensitivity because a signal is observed against a dark background. Se...

transfer of patients from the cardiac intensive care unit to the general ward, is one of the main reasons for anxiety. given that the transfer anxiety may be due to receive at least, inconsistent or do not receive enough information before the patients leaving the intensive care unit, therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of information provision on anxiety levels in patients tran...

This present paper describes a non-uniform unit selection synthesis system for the Blizzard Challenge 2007. Nonuniform unit is used to maximize the length of unit sequence to be selected for the target sequence. In a minor modification from the previous implementation, a different search strategy is introduced to transfer a usual phoneme-based speech system to a non-uniform unit selection syste...

Objective(s):An earlier meta-analysis on gene expression data derived from four microarray, two cDNA library, and one SAGE experiment had identified RGS5 as one of only ten non-housekeeping genes that were reported to be expressed in human trabecular meshwork (TM) cells by all studies. RGS5 encodes regulator of G-protein signaling-5. The TM tissue is the route of aqueous fluid outflow, and is r...

Unit selection based speech synthesis is able to generate high quality speech. During unit selection process, a set of unit candidates are provided for each target unit. Its performance is degraded with a large number of candidates. In order to improve the speed of the unit selection process, it is important to determine a small set of candidates. This needs a candidate selection method that do...

In this paper, a corpus-based speech synthesis system KB2006 was developed using the speech database provided by Blizzard Challenge 2006. We proposed a novel unit selection method called multi-tier non-uniform unit selection in our corpus-base speech synthesis system. Non-uniform unit (NUU) in our system was defined as a unit sequences that contains one or more joint phoneme units. By using CAR...

objective: professional nursing is recognised for having high working anxiety levels due to continuous interaction with patients, their family and colleagues in a high stress working environment. as a compilation of non cognitive skills and abilities, emotional intelligent could be helpful in controlling stress and increasing the individual’s productivity at work. intensive care units’ employee...

the issue of unit commitment is one of the most important economic plans in power system. in modern and traditional power systems, in addition to being economical of the planning, the issue of security in unit operation is also of great importance. hence power system operation confronts units’ participation and input considering network security constrains. the issue of units’ participation is ...

PURPOSE In order to automate fundus perimetry, which is usually laborious because of the many manual operations and the frequent eye movements, we developed a new fundus perimeter with an automated measuring system using computer technology. METHODS This fundus perimeter consists of an infrared fundus camera, a fundus-pursuit unit, and a target-display unit. Both units are personal computers ...