The objectives of this internship were: studies on supervised and unsupervised text syllabification techniques, with a focus on unsupervised methods, implementation and evaluation of several unsupervised audio syllabification algorithms, implementation and evaluation of an unsupervised text syllabification algorithms, improve the performance of text syllabification with features from acoustics....

Software evaluation and selection have begun to be addressed as a topic title along with the fact that microcomputers and then personal computers have become widespread and have been used in the operations of businesses. In this study, it was focused on the selection of software for identifying the physical effect distances of the explosion, fire, and toxic emission, which is an impo...

INTRODUCTION Bortezomib, a novel proteasome inhibitor, is approved for the treatment of relapsed multiple myeloma (MM). Efficacy and safety of bortezomib is well known; however, it was necessary to validate the data in patients with different ethnic backgrounds. The efficacy and safety of bortezomib was assessed in patients from China with relapsed/refractory MM in a real-world scenario. METH...

BACKGROUND Relevance assessment is a major problem in the evaluation of information retrieval systems. The work presented here introduces a new parameter, "Relevance Similarity", for the measurement of the variation of relevance assessment. In a situation where individual assessment can be compared with a gold standard, this parameter is used to study the effect of such variation on the perform...

Our work is motivated by a simple question: can we design a simple routing protocol that works well across diverse wireless network environments such as meshes, MANETs, and DTNs? We identify packet replication as a key structural difference between protocols designed for opposite ends of the connectivity spectrum, namely, DTNs and meshes. We develop a model to quantify under what conditions and...

Study selection Study designs of evaluations included in the review Diagnostic cohort studies. To be included, index tests and standard tests had to be systematically performed in all patients with the sampling technique specified. The included studies were all prospective. Review papers and letters to the editor were excluded. The studies had to report sufficient information to judge methodolo...

Thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are five-membered heterocyclic having sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms in their ring structure and exhibiting potent as well as wide range of pharmacological activities. Variety of substituents on the thiazolidine-2,4-dione nucleus or as hybrid molecules when combined with other heterocyclic rings produce wide range of biological activities suchas antihyperglycemics,...

This study explored retrospective evaluations of temporally extended outcomes. Participants, primarily non-gamblers or recreational gamblers, played a fruit machine that presented sequences of payouts and then retrospectively evaluated their experiences. Experiments 1 and 2 replicated a robust “peakend” effect on estimation judgments and choices, with participants exhibiting biases in favor of ...

The problems related to the consumption of alcohol vary along a gravity continuum. Such a characteristic requests the construction of treatment services that assist to the needs in each one of these situations. Besides, the economical and cultural context of a given community covers the patient of particularities that need to be considered by the service of treatment. This way, the organization...