Original scientific paper Confidence measures are expected to give a measure of reliability on the result of a speech/speaker recognition system. Most commonly used confidence measures are based on posterior word or phoneme probabilities which can be obtained from the output of the recognizer. In this paper we introduced a linear interpretation of posterior probability based confidence measure ...

background: investigators frequently encounter continuous outcomes with plenty of values clumped at zero called semi-continuous outcomes. the gensini score, one of the most widely used scoring systems for expressing coronary angiographic results, is of this type. the aim of this study was to apply two statistical approaches based on the categorization and original scale of the gensini score to ...

in this paper, we show that the chapman-kolmogorov formula could be used as a recursive formula for computing the m-step-ahead conditional density of a markov bilinear model. the stationary marginal probability density function of the model may be approximated by the m-step-ahead conditional density for sufficiently large m.

1. Construct a generative or forward model M with parameters θ of how data D can be generated. We can think of this generative model as a stochastic simulator for the data, with parameters θ. We will assume for now that M , the structure or functional form of the model, is known, but that the parameters θ are unknown1. An example would be that M is a Gaussian (Normal) probability density functi...

In this paper, we investigate the use of Multiple Background Models (M-BMs) in Speaker Verification (SV). We cluster the speakers using either their Vocal Tract Lengths (VTLs) or by using their speaker specific Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (MLLR) super-vector, and build a separate Background Model (BM) for each such cluster. We show that the use of M-BMs provide improved performance whe...

conclusions this study showed that magnesium sulphate added to sufentanil through pcia is an effective method to alleviate pain in patients undergoing lower limb orthopedic surgery. moreover, we found fewer side effects on magnesium-sufentanil regimen in terms of in nausea, vomiting, and sedation; and patients’ satisfaction in this regimen was more rather than that in the regiment of sufentanil...

BACKGROUND There have been scarce large-scale studies investigating the personality of patients with malignant tumors. The purpose of this study is to determine the characteristic personality in malignant tumors outpatients. METHODS Three thousand and three among 5013 consecutive outpatients who consented to answer the Japanese Maudsley Personality Inventory questionnaires were divided into t...