Speaker diarization systems usually consist of two core components: speaker segmentation and speaker clustering. The current state-of-the-art speaker diarization systems usually apply hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) for speaker clustering after segmentation. However, HAC’s quadratic computational complexity with respect to the number of data samples inevitably limits its application...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to compare the detection rates of conventional tumor markers with two molecular diagnostic approaches on blood samples from patients with esophageal squamous cell cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Preoperative blood samples were obtained from 44 esophageal cancer patients and were subjected to CEA-specific reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)...

Conventional radiation therapy (RT) is a widely recognized treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, conventional RT plays only a limited role in HCC treatment because of its low efficacy and the low tolerance of the liver for this modality. Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) was recently developed and represents the most advanced radiation therapy technique currently avail...

In well-selected patients who choose to pursue breast conservation therapy (BCT) for early-stage breast cancer, partial breast irradiation (PBI) delivered externally or intraoperatively, may be a viable alternative to conventional whole breast irradiation. Two large, contemporary randomized trials have demonstrated breast intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) to be noninferior to whole breast exte...

Duck spleen necrosis disease (DSND) caused by Novel Reovirus (NDRV), is an emerging infectious that causes severely threaten to duck industry. Currently, the popular conventional RT-PCR technique for detecting NDRV time consuming. So, it essential develop a rapid and accurate molecular diagnosis techniques of pathogen purpose effective control disease. In our study, simple, reliable detection m...

Background FLASH radiotherapy (RT) is a novel method for delivering ionizing radiation, which has been shown in preclinical studies to have normal tissue sparing effect and maintain anticancer efficacy as compared conventional RT. Treatment of head neck tumors with RT commonly associated severe toxicity, hence the potentially makes it especially advantageous treating oral tumors. In this work, ...

This study was aimed at evaluating the effect of crop rotation and various tillage systems onthe chemical and biological properties of soil in the years 2013-2015. The first order factorincluded cropping systems: a) crop rotation (pea – winter wheat – spring wheat) and b)monoculture of winter wheat, whereas the second order factor were tillage systems:1) conventional (CT), 2) reduced (RT) and 3...

the objective of this study was to determine the quicker response of subsoil or surface soil to minimum tillage (mt) and conventional tillage (ct) and biofertilizers (bacillus coagulans, b), phosphorus fertilization (p) and integrated p and b (pb) under the wheat (triticum aestivum l vr. sardari) growing season. the experimental design was split plot laid out in randomized complete block design...

the invention of polymerase chain reaction (pcr) has been a milestone in the history of biological and medical sciences. the applications of pcr have not only completely revolutionised the research in the field of molecular genetics as well as animal and plant biotechnology, but the technique has also proved its relevance and ingenious utility in other fields of forensic sciences, molecular sys...

Rice–wheat crop rotations have high carbon fluxes. A 2-year field study in Punjab, Pakistan quantified impacts of different nutrient management on harvestable biomass, crop-derived C, soil organic C sequestration (SCS), and decomposition. Treatments included combinations mineral fertilizer, animal manure (20 Mg ha−1), incorporated residue a split-plot design under conventional tillage (CT) redu...