The article describes the translation and adaptation of the Gaudenz-Fragebogen, an instrument of German origin used to diagnose female urinary incontinence, to the Brazilian culture. The steps recommended by international literature were followed: translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, valuation of the synthetic version by a board of specialists and pre-test. The process of t...

Simple integrate-and-re neurons that accurately reproduce in vitro data from cortical regular spiking cells can display surprisingly sophisticated behavior. To reproduce in vitro f-I plots, voltage after spikes was reset to 5 mV below threshold , and simple spike rate adaptation was added. Small reset results in input sensitivity (high gain) on short time scales; adaptation leads to wide dynami...

This article is concerned with William Shakespeare’s famous farce play The Taming of the Shrew and its Persian adaptation as an Iranian film called Gorbe ra dame Hejleh Mikoshand in 1969. The point that informs the inquiry is the way the film departs and differs from the play in relation to the issue of women within the patriarchal society. The play and the film will be examined separately in d...

abstarct at the present study effects of salinity were studied on growth and feeding performance, survival rate and blood biochemical parameters of pre on-growing rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) with initial weight 93.22±4.11 g for 60 days. after adaptation for 10 days to water salinity, 450 fish were distributed in 5 treatments and 3 replicates according to completely randomized design. be...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Advanced lung cancer patients experience anatomical changes during radiotherapy. Uncorrected, these may lead to lower tumor dose, but can be corrected for by adaptive radiotherapy (ART). MATERIAL AND METHODS Anatomical changes in 233 patients were monitored online on cone-beam CT-scans used for daily soft-tissue matching. If systematic changes above the pre-defined trig...

Replicated lines of Drosophila subobscura originating from a large outbred stock collected at the estimated Chilean epicentre (Puerto Montt) of the original New World invasion were allowed to evolve under controlled conditions of larval crowding for 3.5 years at three temperature levels (13, 18 and 22 degrees C). Several pre-adult life history traits (development time, survival and competitive ...

The general ecological mechanism that provides species survival and multiplication in a previously unfamiliar environment and is known as pre adaptation appears to be involved in the phenomenon of emerging infections [7]. Living in their natural environment, causative agents of emerging infections might be wild mammal pathogens or be carried asymptomatically by wild animals or be rather microbi...

We develop an algorithm to improve the predictive performance of a pre-trained model under \textit{concept shift} without retraining from scratch when only unannotated samples initial concepts are accessible. this problem as domain adaptation problem, where source data is inaccessible during adaptation. The core idea based on consolidating intermediate internal distribution, learned represent d...

Bleaching, the loss of algal symbionts, occurs in marine photosymbiotic organisms at water temperatures minimally exceeding average summer SST (sea surface temperatures). Pre-adaptation allows organisms to persist under warmer conditions, providing the tolerance can be carried to new habitats. Here we provide evidence for the existence of such adaptation in the benthic foraminifera Pararotalia ...

In this work the theoretical concepts of unsupervised acoustic model training and the application and evaluation of unsupervised training schemes are described. Experiments aiming at speaker adaptation via unsupervised training are conducted on the KIT lecture translator system. Evaluation takes place with respect to training e ciency and overall system performance in dependency of the availabl...