Modern medicine is confronted with cultural crossings in various forms. In facing these challenges, it is not enough to simply increase our insight into the cultural dimensions of health and well-being. We must, more radically, question the conventional distinction between the 'objectivity of science' and the 'subjectivity of culture'. This obligation creates an urgent call for the medical huma...

Preface Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a useful tool that can facilitate the research and study of animal vocalizations. The use of human speech-based signal processing techniques for animal vocalizations has several pitfalls. Animal vocalizations may not share the same spectral or temporal characteristics as human speech. As a result , the typical ASR assumptions concerning the best fra...

background and aims. with availability of hydrophilic sealers, drying of the canals before endodontic obturation is still a matter of debate. the aim of this study was to compare the apical micro-leakage of ah26, excite dsc, mta fillapex, and zoe sealers in dry and moist root canals. materials and methods. this experimental study was performed on 90 extracted maxillary central incisors. rotary ...

This paper presents a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) based approach to handle different steering scenarios for autonomous vehicles. The proposed methodology consists of the design fast and performant LPV/LFT controller which can track generated yaw rate reference, speed operating range, lane tracking smooth/fast changes. handling dynamic maneuver is achieved by Command Governor (CG), feeds upda...

Purpose There is much debate in the literature about how performance of Islamic banks (IBs) should be measured. Basically, IBs’ business models are different from that conventional banks; thus, IBs measured by using a Sharīʿah-based approach. This paper considers zakat (Islamic tax) as an alternative indicator to measure IBs. aims examine whether ratios can used (ISPER) indicators for besides (...