This paper presents a description of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory language recognition system submitted to the NIST 2007 Language Recognition Evaluation. This system consists of a fusion of four core recognizers, two based on tokenization and two based on spectral similarity. Results for NIST’s 14-language detection task are presented for both the closed-set and open-set tasks and for the 30, 10 ...

Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes and a leading cause of blindness in the world. It occurs when diabetes damages the tiny blood vessels inside the retina. The main two types of diabetic retinopathy the first are non-proliferate diabetes retinopathy (NPDR) and second are proliferate diabetes retinopathy (PDR). Images analysis by trained individuals, which can be a very costly an...

This paper presents a description of the INESC-ID’s Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (LF) Language Verification system submitted to the 2009 NIST Language Recognition evaluation. The LF system is composed by the fusion of eight individual sub-systems: four phonotactic systems and four acoustic based methods. Language recognition results have been submitted for the “closed-set”, “open-set” and...

Introduction: Bilateral sagittal split osteotomy (BSSO) of mandible is vastly used in treatment of mandibular deficiencies and discrepancies. Since this method could affect esthetic as well as function, evaluating these effects from various aspects is crucial. This study assessed the effects of this technique on the function of masseter muscle, jaw movements, and sensory changes along with fail...

Ecological infrastructures (EI), defined as natural or semi-natural structural elements, are important to support biodiversity and could play a crucial role in counteracting the well-known impacts of intensive agriculture. Yet, importance EI remains largely unexplored Mediterranean agricultural landscapes for species providing essential ecosystem services such bats. Here, we evaluated different...

introduction: bilateral sagittal split osteotomy (bsso) of mandible is vastly used in treatment of mandibular deficiencies and discrepancies. since this method could affect esthetic as well as function, evaluating these effects from various aspects is crucial. this study assessed the effects of this technique on the function of masseter muscle, jaw movements, and sensory changes along with fail...

This paper describes the two systems submitted to the Albayzin 2010 Language Recognition Evaluation by I3A. This evaluation is similar to the one organized by NIST every 2 years, but the languages to be recognized are those spoken in the Iberian peninsula (Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Portuguese) plus English. Both submissions are a fusion of five phonotactic and three acoustic subsys...

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effect Lactobacillus reuteri E81 (LRE) probiotic supplementation on heat stress responses in chukar partridges ( Alectoris chukar). birds were divided into two groups, one which exposed (HS). Within each group, four subgroups, including 64 birds, created for three treatment doses (200, 400 or 600 mg/kg) LRE and control. experiment started wi...

The Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation (Albayzin 2012 LRE) is supported by the Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology (RTTH) and organized by the Software Technologies Working Group (GTTS) of the University of the Basque Country, with the key collaboration of Niko Brümmer, from Agnitio Research, South Africa, for defining the evaluation criterion and coding the script used to ...

In this paper, a new language identification system is presented based on the total variability approach previously developed in the field of speaker identification. Various techniques are employed to extract the most salient features in the lower dimensional i-vector space and the system developed results in excellent performance on the 2009 LRE evaluation set without the need for any post-pro...