In this paper we present techniques for building multi-domain and multi-lingual recognizers within a finite-state transducer (FST) framework. The flexibility of the FST approach is also demonstrated on the task of incorporating networks modeling different types of non-speech events into an existing word lattice network. The ability to create robust multi-domain and/or multi-lingual recognizers ...

Drosophila buzzatii is confined to reproducing in a well defined patchy environment consisting of rotting cactus cladodes which are ephemeral, permitting at most three generations. Flies emerging from such rots were used to estimate the additive genetic variance within rots and the genetic variance between rots for body size and also were electrophoresed to determine their genotypes at six poly...

The antidepressant-like effects of N-palmitoylethanolamide (PEA), a putative endocannabinoid, was investigated in mice using the tail suspension test (TST) and the forced swimming test (FST). In TST, PEA (10, 20, and 40 mg/kg) produced a statistically significant reduction in immobility (50, 32, and 34%, respectively, vs. the control group), whereas fluoxetine (20 mg/kg) reduced immobility by 3...

To establish the neonatal screening method of glucose-6 phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, G6PD activity was measured using the fluorescence spot test (FST) using dried blood samples on filter paper. The G6PD/6PGD rate test of venous blood samples was further performed for confirmation. The positive G6PD deficiency rate was 4.2% and its detection rates were 3.7% for all neonates and 5.2...

The finite state transducer (FST) approach [1] has been widely used recently as an effective and flexible framework for speech systems. In this framework, a speech recognizer is represented as the composition of a series of FSTs combining various knowledge sources across sub-lexical and high-level linguistic layers. In this paper, we use this FST framework to explore some sublexical modelling a...

Chronic stress has been reported to be an essential factor for depression. In this study, the effect of forced swimming stress on neurotransmitters and cellular signaling pathway contributing to brain functions was investigated using the forced swimming test (FST) in order to understanding of mechanisms to regulate stress signals in brain. Antidepressant drug, imipramine, significantly reduced ...

The fixed scale transformation ~FST! is a theoretical framework developed for the evaluation of scaling dimensions in a vast class of complex systems showing fractal geometric correlations. For models with long range interactions, such as Laplacian growth models, the identification by analytical methods of the transformation’s basic elements is a very difficult task. Here we present a Monte Car...

Numerous studies have demonstrated population genetic structuring in marine species, yet few have investigated the effect of vertical zonation on gene flow and population structure. Here we use three sympatric, closely related clinid species, Clinus cottoides, C. superciliosus and Muraenoclinus dor salis, to test whether zonation on South African intertidal rocky shores affects phylogeographic ...

Spoken Term Detection (STD) focuses on finding instances of a particular spoken word or phrase in an audio corpus. Most STD systems have a two-step pipeline, ASR followed by search. Two approaches to search are common, Confusion Network (CN) based search and Finite State Transducer (FST) based search. In this paper, we examine combination of these two different search approaches, using the same...

[Formula: see text] is one of the most widely used statistics in population genetics. Recent mathematical studies have identified constraints that challenge interpretations of [Formula: see text] as a measure with potential to range from 0 for genetically similar populations to 1 for divergent populations. We generalize results obtained for population pairs to arbitrarily many populations, char...