OBJECTIVE To compare the success rates of laryngotracheoplasty (LTP) with those of anterior cricoid split (ACS) performed over the same period in infants younger than 6 months. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Tertiary children's hospital. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-two infants younger than 6 months. INTERVENTIONS Twenty-one infants younger than 6 months underwent single-stage LTP as an alte...

Automatic generation of caption to describe the content of an image has been gaining a lot of research interests recently, where most of the existing works treat the image caption as pure sequential data. Natural language, however possess a temporal hierarchy structure, with complex dependencies between each subsequence. In this paper, we propose a phrasebased hierarchical Long Short-Term Memor...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the long-term stability of treatment with self-ligating brackets compared with conventional brackets. MATERIALS AND METHODS The long-term follow-up retrospective study sample consisted of two groups of patients: group SL (including passive and interactive self ligating braces) comprised 30 subjects treated with self-ligating brackets at a mean pr...

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Many state-of-the-art Machine Translation (MT) evaluation metrics are complex, involve extensive external resources (e.g. for paraphrasing) and require tuning to achieve best results. We present a simple alternative approach based on dense vector spaces and recurrent neural networks (RNNs), in particular Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks. ForWMT-14, our new metric scores best for two out o...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Vocabulary is an important component in all four skills of language. Issue of vocabulary retention has great importance to EFL teachers in instructional contexts because they always ...

Test-retest reliability is important for long-term follow-up; however, data on the reliability of isokinetic dynamometry of the shoulder are scarce. Twenty subjects (50% male) were measured; 10 with asymmetrical use of the arms (mean age 27 years) and 10 used their arms symmetrically (mean age 32 years). A Biodex dynamometer (Multi joint system 2) was used. Abduction/adduction and external/inte...