This study aimed to explore the effect of Bif. Animalis F1-7 on improvement atherosclerotic inflammation. Arteriosclerosis model ApoE-/- mice were orally administered with for 12 weeks. The probiotic intervention reduced plaque areas in aorta and accumulation macrophages, downregulated expression toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)/nuclear factor‑κB (NFκB) pathway reduce levels inflam...

Speech intelligibility prediction methods are popular tools within the speech processing community for objective evaluation of speech intelligibility of e.g. enhanced speech. The Short-Time Objective Intelligibility (STOI) measure has become highly used due to its simplicity and high prediction accuracy. In this paper we investigate the use of Band Importance Functions (BIFs) in the STOI measur...

In face recognition, most appearance-based methods require several images of each person to construct the feature space for recognition. However, in the real world it is difficult to collect multiple images per person, and in many cases there is only a single sample per person (SSPP). In this paper, we propose a method to generate new images with various illuminations from a single image taken ...

The design of molecular materials suitable for disparate fields could lead to new advances in engineering applications. In this work, a series Ln 3+ -doped BiF 3 sub-microparticles were synthesized through microwave-assisted synthesis. effects doping are evaluated from the structural and morphological viewpoint. general, increasing concentration octahedral habitus is distorted spheric one, some...