background: the main goal of the present study was to develop a new sensitive and specific pcr based method for identification of cryptosporidium sp. using novel primers from 18s ribosomal rna. cryptosporidi­osis in high-risk host groups particularly in neonates and immuno-compromised individuals may result in death. to the best of our knowledge this is the first study regarding develop a new p...

Automatic dialect identification, like automatic language identification , has often been approached through the use of phonetic frequencies and phonetic sequence modeling. While such statistical systems perform well on language identification problems, they are less adept at the more difficult problem of automatic dialect identification, particularly on short segments of speech. In this paper ...

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Current metrics for de-identification are based on information extraction metrics, and do not address the real-world questions “how good are current systems”, and “how good do they need to be”. Metrics are needed that quantify both the risk of re-identification and information preservation. We review the challenges in de-identifying clinical texts and the current metrics for assessing clinical ...

of the Dissertation Efficient Medium Access Protocols for Wireless and RFID Networks

Tree Substitution Grammar rules form a large and expressive class of features capable of representing syntactic and lexical patterns that provide evidence of an author’s native language. However, this class of features can be applied to any general constituent based model of grammar and previous work has done little to explore these options, relying primarily on the common Penn Treebank annotat...