A crucial element of struggle for any social movement is the ability to convey its message to both movement participants and the broader public. Movements frequently deal with problems of reframing and reinterpretation of their messages by mainstream media by trying to build relationships with mainstream media actors. But this is not the only way that movements can gain positive media coverage....

This paper addresses the topic of online unsupervised speaker segmentation in a complex audio environment as it is present in the Broadcast News databases. A new two stage speaker change detection algorithm is proposed, which combines the Bayesian Information Criterion with an ABLS-SCD statistical framework where adapted Gaussian mixture models are used to achieve higher accuracy. To enhance th...

Differential Ks-band luminosity functions (LFs) are presented for a complete sample of 1613 nearby bright galaxies segregated by visible morphology. The LF for late-type spirals follows a power law that rises towards low luminosities whereas the LFs for ellipticals, lenticulars and bulge-dominated spirals are peaked and decline toward both higher and lower luminosities. Each morphological type ...

meet Bakhai, MD, MRCP,*† Gregg W. Stone, MD,‡ Elizabeth Mahoney, SCD,* Tara A. Lavelle, BA,* hunxue Shi, MS,* Ronna H. Berezin, MPH,* Betsy J. Lahue, MPH,§ Mary Ann Clark, MHA,§ ichael J. Lacey, MS,§ Mary E. Russell, MD,§ Stephen G. Ellis, MD, James B. Hermiller, MD,¶ avid A. Cox, MD,# David J. Cohen, MD, MSC,*** on behalf of the TAXUS-IV Investigators oston and Natick, Massachusetts; Barnet, E...

2 Software details 4 2.1 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 File overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3 Calling sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3.1 The initial point . . . . . . . . . . ....

In a previous paper a method was developed to determine the shapes of dark matter halos of spiral galaxies from the flaring and velocity dispersion of the gas layer. Here I present the results for the almost edge-on Scd galaxy NGC 4244 and preliminary results for the Milky Way. NGC 4244’s dark matter halo is found to be highly flattened with a shortest-to-longest axis ratio of 0.2 −0.1 . If the...

BACKGROUND Reducing environmental stress imposed upon gametes and embryos in the IVF laboratory is crucial in optimizing culture conditions and development. One environmental parameter of particular importance is external pH (pHe) of culture media. An optimal pHe has not been identified. METHODS Electronic searches were performed using keywords focused on pH and the embryo using PUBMED throug...

BACKGROUND Studies of social media in both medicine and dentistry have largely focused on the value of social media for marketing to and communicating with patients and for clinical education. There is limited evidence of how dental clinicians contribute to and use social media to disseminate and access information relevant to clinical care. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to inventor...

The two-sided market of newspapers with its two customer groups, readers and advertisers, is changing due to digitalization. This former stable and profitable market has lately suffered from both decreasing subscription and advertiser revenue. In this paper we use the term ubiquitous media environments to represent the vision of future media environments enabling device independent mass-scale d...