Norplant, a systemic contraceptive, has been used extensively throughout the world. A major problem for consumers utilizing Norplant has been irregular, unpredictable uterine bleeding or spotting. This study seeks to determine whether or not an appropriate treatment could be found that will reduce the incidence of spotting and bleeding. Both a pilot study and an interim report of a multi-center...

Speech recognition systems are prone to severe degradation in noisy environments due to mismatch between training and testing conditions. A multi-stream approach for keyword spotting is proposed to improve robustness in mismatched conditions. The assumption is that most real world noises are colored and do not affect the full spectrum equally, meaning certain parts of the spectrum can still pro...

Urdu is one of the most widely used languages in the world and there is a need of developing character recognition and word-spotting algorithms, so that Urdu literature can be made easily accessible and searchable to the Urdu reading population. Although there has been a sizeable research for character recognition, very few articles have been published for word-spotting in Urdu language. Unlike...

Recently, micro-expression recognition has seen an increase of interest from psychological and computer vision communities. As microexpressions are generated involuntarily on a person’s face, and are usually a manifestation of repressed feelings of the person. Most existing works pay attention to either the detection or spotting of micro-expression frames or the categorization of type of micro-...

Using radioactive tritium, scientists improve laboratory constraints on the overdensity signal of cosmic relic neutrinos by a factor 100, an advance that should chances spotting this elusive particle.