i-vector modeling techniques have been successfully used for speaker clustering task recently. In this work, we propose the extraction of i-vectors from shortand long-term speech features, and the fusion of their PLDA scores within the frame of speaker diarization. Two sets of i-vectors are first extracted from short-term spectral and long-term voice-quality, prosodic and glottal to noise excit...

We consider the generalized Nash equilibrium problem (GNEP), in which each player’s strategy set may depend on the rivals’ strategies through shared constraints. A practical approach to solving this problem that has received increasing attention lately entails solving a related variational inequality (VI). From the viewpoint of game theory, it is important to find as many GNEs as possible, if n...

We calculate the total and di erential quasielastic cross sections for neutrino and antineutrino scattering on nucleons using up to date ts to the nucleon elastic electromagnetic form factors GpE , G n E , G p M , G n M , and weak and pseudoscalar form factors. We nd that using the updated non-zero value of GnE has a signi cant e ect on both the total and di erential neutrino and antineutrino q...

-An evaluation is reported of methods used to prepare mosses for analysis when required for monitoring metal pollution. Fontinalis antipyretica and Rhynchostegium riparioides taken from the River Ho~gne, Belgium, were used for the study. The stages in preparation studied critically were the storage of the moss after it had been collected from the river, washing, choice of which particular fract...

Purpose: We sought to identify predictive biomarkers for a novel nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) inhibitor. Experimental Design:We use a NAMPT inhibitor, GNE-617, to evaluate nicotinic acid rescue status in a panel ofmore than 400 cancer cell lines.Using correlative analysis andRNA interference (RNAi), we identify a specific biomarker for nicotinic acid rescue status. We next det...

SUMMARY Because of the aperiodicity of many tracheoesophageal voices, acoustic analysis of the tracheoesophageal voice is less straightforward than that of the normal voice. This study presents the development and testing of an acoustic signal typing system based on visual inspection of a narrow-band spectrogram that can be used by researchers for classification of voice quality in tracheoesoph...

Th is paper presents examples of model 1 ing developments in varlous policy fields where economics and ecology meet, often in conflicting situations, i.e. with conflicting objectives. An overview of nature conservation and economie objectives and policy issues is given and a series of policy fields in which practical applications of economic-ecologica! model Iing exist. Th is is illustrated by ...

Neurodegenerative diseases are associated with failed proteostasis and accumulation of insoluble protein aggregates that compromise neuronal function survival. In Parkinson’s disease, a major pathological finding is Lewy bodies neurites mainly composed phosphorylated aggregated α-synuclein fragments organelle membranes. Here, we analyzed series selective inhibitors acting on multidomain protein...