The dragon fruit, also known as pitaya, is an exotic tropical plant with numerous health benefits due to its high nutritional value and bioactive components, which include powerful natural antioxidants. Extracts from fruit stems, blooms, peels, pulps have a variety of therapeutic biological effects against pathogenic microbes such bacteria, fungus, viruses, well disorders diabetes, obesity, hyp...

BACKGROUND Aerosol face mask design and the distance at which the face mask is held from the face affect the delivery of nebulized medication to pediatric patients. OBJECTIVE To measure the inhaled mass of nebulized albuterol with 3 types of pediatric face mask, at 3 different distances from the face, with a model of a spontaneously breathing infant. METHODS We compared a standard pediatric...

In this paper we shall describe Dragon Systems’ 1998 Broadcast News transcription system for Mandarin. We shall describe our music classifier, which was unique to our Mandarin system, as well as our speaker change detection algorithm, ̋ which was used in our English and Mandarin systems. We shall also report on preliminary, post-evaluation experiments with pitch.

28 Computer Enter the Dragon: China’s Computer Industry C hina’s shift from technological nationalism to a more pragmatic strategy of developing national capabilities in conjunction with multinational corporations has transformed its economy. Consistent with this transformation, China has revamped its industrial and technology policies, moving from an isolationist approach aimed at achieving te...

In this paper we shall describe key improvements to Dragon’s Broadcast News Transcription System, which include: the addition of a speaker-change detection algorithm to our preprocessing subsystem, a new diagonalizing transformation trained using semi-tied covariances, and the addition of probabilities on pronunciations. This new transcription system yields a word error rate of 15.2% on the 199...

In this paper we shall describe key improvements to Dragon’s Broadcast News Transcription System, which include: the addition ̋of a ̋speaker-change detection algorithm to ̋ our preprocessing subsystem, a new diagonalizing transformation trained using semi-tied covariances, ̋and the addition of probabilities on pronunciations. ̋This new transcription system yields a word error r̋ate of 15.2% on the 1...

BACKGROUND Radiology and computed tomography are the most commonly available diagnostic tools for the diagnosis of pathologies affecting the head and skull in veterinary practice. Nevertheless, accurate interpretation of radiographic and CT studies requires a thorough knowledge of the gross and the cross-sectional anatomy. Despite the increasing success of reptiles as pets, only a few reports o...

Ten Dragon 3 projects deal with hydrologic and cryosphere processes, with a focus on the Himalayas and Qinghai – Tibet Plateau, but not limited to that. At the 1 Dragon 3 Progress Symposium in 2013 a significant potential for a better and deeper integration appeared very clearly and we worked out an overview of the ten projects identifying specific issues and objectives shared by at least two p...

The inhibitors of p53-HDM2 interaction are attractive molecules for the treatment of wild-type p53 tumors. In order to search more potent HDM2 inhibitors, docking operation with CDOCKER protocol in Discovery Studio 2.1 (DS2.1) and multidimensional hybrid quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies through the physiochemical properties obtained from DS2.1 and E-Dragon 1.0 as desc...