Lexical information facilitates speech perception, especially when sounds are ambiguous or degraded. The interactive approach to understanding this effect posits that this facilitation is accomplished through bi-directional flow of information, allowing lexical knowledge to influence pre-lexical processes. Alternative autonomous theories posit feed-forward processing with lexical influence rest...

This paper proposes a combination of simulated data adaptation and piecewise linear transformation (PLT) for robust continuous speech recognition. The original PLT selects an appropriate acoustic model using tree-structured HMMs and the acoustic model is adapted by the input speech in an unsupervised scheme. This adaptation can improve the acoustic model if the input speech is long enough and i...

Smooth pursuit eye movements are supported by visual-motor systems, where visual motion information is transformed into eye movement commands. Adaptation of the visuomotor systems for smooth pursuit is an important factor to maintain pursuit accuracy and high acuity vision. Short-term adaptation of initial pursuit gain can be produced experimentally using by repeated trials of a step-ramp track...

Abstract Understanding how crop phenology responds to climate change is critical for enabling agricultural adaptation measures. Pre‐season temperature alone leads well‐understood changes in phenology. Nevertheless, the modulation effect of concurrent precipitation extremes on response has been largely under‐addressed. Here, we investigate rice transplanting dates pre‐season and reveal effects b...

Background: Women with unplanned pregnancy experienced a number of psychological problems. Thus, the present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of midwifery counseling based on cognitive approach in improvement of adaptation to pregnancy, mother-fetal attachment and quality of life among unplanned pregnant women. <span...

Metallothioneins (MTs) are small, cysteine-rich polypeptides, but the role of MTs in inducing the formation of adaptive response is still largely unknown. We investigated the roles of metallothionein genes (mtl-1 and mtl-2) in the formation of cross-adaptation response to neurobehavioral toxicity from metal exposure in Caenorhabditis elegans. Pre-treatment with mild heat-shock at L2-larva stage...

Background The dark-rim artefact (DRA) is well known in 2D firstpass perfusion (FPP). The in-plane features of DRA are understood, but DRA has not been examined along the second phase-encoding (partition) direction for 3D FPP. The Gibbs contribution to DRAs in 2D FPP is minimised by finer resolution, but low through-plane resolutions of 3D FPP imply risk of partition axis DRAs. We investigated ...

Cross-domain named entity recognition (NER) models are able to cope with the scarcity issue of NER samples in target domains. However, most existing benchmarks lack domain-specialized types or do not focus on a certain domain, leading less effective cross-domain evaluation. To address these obstacles, we introduce dataset (CrossNER), fully-labeled collection data spanning over five diverse doma...

conclusions it is likely that learning social skills in adolescents with deafness would improve their sense of competence, and emotional well being. results the intervention led to significant improvement in total perceived competence scores of adolescents with deafness (p < 0.001) as well as in three domains of socio-emotional competence (p = 0.003), communication competence (p < 0.001), and s...