20 The auditory peripheral system filters broadband sounds into narrowband waves, and 21 decomposes narrowband waves into quickly-varying temporal fine structures (TFSs) and 22 slowly-varying envelopes. When a noise is presented binaurally (with the interaural 23 correlation being 1), human listeners can detect a transient break in interaural correlation 24 (BIC), which does not alter monaural ...

BACKGROUND It has been hypothesized that correction of metabolic acidosis might improve the nutritional state of acidotic haemodialysis (HD) patients partly because of a reduced oxidation of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA). AIM We investigated whether bicarbonate (Bic) supplementation in acidotic HD patients results in increased plasma levels of BCAA. METHODS In a longitudinal study (run-...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of timing and force of loading, as well as implant location, on bone-to-implant contact (BIC) of loaded and control miniscrew implants (MSI). Using seven skeletally mature male beagle dogs, 1-2 years of age, followed over a 110 day period, a randomized split-mouth design compared immediate versus delayed loading, 50 versus 25 g loading, and 25 g l...

Erratum Upon Publication of the original manuscript [1] several discrepancies were highlighted in the following sections; Statistical methods and Results. These errors have since been acknowledged and corrected in this erratum. The text in the subsection “Statistical methods” originally read: “Mean values and standard deviations were calculated for bone implant contact (BIC). Univariate analysi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate antiviral activity, safety, and pharmacokinetics of short-term monotherapy with bictegravir (BIC), a novel, potent HIV integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI). DESIGN Phase 1b, randomized, double-blinded, adaptive, sequential cohort, placebo-controlled study. METHODS HIV-infected adults not taking antiretroviral therapy were randomized to receive BIC (5, 25, 50, or...

Hierarchical clustering of text collections is a key problem in document management and retrieval. In partitional hierarchical clustering, which is more efficient than its agglomerative counterpart, the entire collection is split into clusters and the individual clusters are further split until a heuristically-motivated termination criterion is met. In this paper, we define the BIC-means algori...

In this paper, an approach of dynamic threshold setting via Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) in HMM training is described. The BIC threshold setting is applied to two important applications. Firstly, it is used to set the thresholds for decision tree based state tying, in place of the conventional approach of using a heuristic constant threshold. Secondly, it is applied to choosing the numb...

Optical bound states in the continuum (BIC) are localized states with energy lying above the light line and having infinite lifetime. Any losses taking place in real systems result in transformation of the bound states into resonant states with finite lifetime. In this work, we analyze properties of BIC in CMOS-compatible one-dimensional photonic structure based on siliconon-insulator wafer at ...

A novel approach to the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) is introduced. The new criterion redefines the penalty terms of the BIC, such that each parameter is penalized with the effective sample size is trained with. Contrary to Local-BIC, the proposed criterion scores overall clustering hypotheses and therefore is not restricted to hierarchical clustering algorithms. Contrary to Global-BIC,...