A 48-year-old nonsmoker female with no significant past medical history is admitted to the hospital with lower abdominal pain, fatigue, yellow vaginal discharge and unintentionally weight loss. On physical examination there was a palpable mass extending from supra-pubic to supra-umbilical area and significant foul-smelling vaginal discharge. Computerized tomography of Pelvis revealed a mass lik...

Prosody plays an important role in neutral-to-emotional voice conversion. Prosodic features like pitch are usually estimated and altered at a segmental level based on short windowing of speech signal (where the signal is expected to be quasi-stationary). This results in a frame-wise change of acoustical parameters for synthesizing emotionalized speech. In order to convert a neutral speech to an...

Surgical interventions for musculoskeletal tumor resection are particularly challenging in the pelvic region due to their anatomical complexity and proximity vital structures. Several techniques, such as surgical navigation or patient-specific instruments (PSIs), have been introduced ensure accurate margins. However, inclusion usually modifies approach making it more invasive. In this study, we...

This study investigated long-term adaptations of smooth pursuit eye movement characteristics in high-level gymnasts and compared these responses to those of nonathletes. Gymnasts were selected because of their exceptional ability to spatially orient during fast, multiaxial whole body rotations. Participants were tested with standardized and supra-maximal sinusoidal smooth pursuit measurements. ...

We consider the problem of optimizing the sum of a smooth convex function and a non-smooth convex function using proximal-gradient methods, where an error is present in the calculation of the gradient of the smooth term or in the proximity operator with respect to the non-smooth term. We show that both the basic proximal-gradient method and the accelerated proximal-gradient method achieve the s...

Supra-threshold spatial integration was studied by testing the saliency of multi-Gabor element configurations in short duration binocular rivalry (dichoptic masking) conditions. Dichoptic presentations allow for a competition between spatially overlapping supra-threshold stimuli that involve non-overlapping monocular receptive fields in the first stage of visual filtering. Different spatial con...