This paper presents a method for speaker-independent automatic phonetic alignment that is distinguished from standard HMM-based “forced alignment” in three respects: (1) specific acoustic-phonetic features are used, in addition to PLP features, by the phonetic classifier; (2) the units of classification consist of distinctive phonetic features instead of phonemes; and (3) observation probabilit...

Proteomics is the large-scale analysis of protein profiles. This approach has not yet been reported in the study of acute lung injury (ALI). This study details protein profiles in plasma and pulmonary edema fluid (EF) from 16 ALI patients and plasma and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from 12 normal subjects. More than 300 distinct protein spots were evident in the EF and BALF of both norma...

Acute lung injury (ALI) and its more severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), have high mortality rates with few treatment options. An important regulatory factor in the pathology observed in ALI/ARDS is a disruption of the pulmonary endothelial barrier which, in combination with epithelial barrier disruption, causes leakage of fluid, protein and cells into lung airspaces. Degra...

The refined empirical line (REL) approach was used to convert the Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) Advanced Land Imager (ALI) sensor digital number (dn) to surface spectral reflectance ( ). The dn-torelation was derived from a bright target of known reflectance in the image, and the modeled estimates of the image dn at . The mean absolute percent difference ( ) between retrieved from ALI using the REL ...

Currently, the underlying mechanism of oxaliplatin (OXA) induced live injury is unclear. In addition, there is no standard clinical treatment for OXA-induced acute liver injury (ALI). In this study, we established an animal model of OXA-induced ALI, and studied the role of oxidative stress in OXA-induced ALI and the impacts of reduced glutathione (GSH) treatment on OXA-induced ALI. To establish...

Immune-complexes play an important role in the inflammatory diseases of the lung. Neutrophil activation mediates immune-complex (IC) deposition-induced acute lung injury (ALI). Components of gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) signaling, including GABA B receptor 2 (GABABR2), GAD65/67 and the GABA transporter, are present in the lungs and in the neutrophils. However, the role of pulmonary GABABR ac...

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the major nutritional bases mankind and animals worldwide; however, infestations by aphids are main cause that severely affects wheat production in Pakistan around world. In 2021-22 population densities Sitobion avenae their mummified were studied on crop under field conditions at University Research Farm, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Raw...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether an "obesity paradox" exists in the respiratory system, especially in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute lung injury (ALI). Previous studies have postulated a causal relation between obesity and ARDS/ALI but have lacked power to form a definitive conclusion. OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationships between obesity, ARDS/ALIrisk, and mortalit...

Acute lung injury (ALI) is one of the fatal outcomes after exposure to high levels of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) especially MMP-2 and MMP-9 are believed to be involved in the development of ALI by degrading the extracellular matrix (ECM) of blood-air barrier. However, the roles of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in H2S-induced ALI and the mechanisms of dexamethasone (DXM) ...