Speech recognition confidence classifier (CC) score quantitatively represents the correctness of decoded utterances in a [0,1] range. We associate an operating threshold with the classifier and accept recognitions with scores greater than the threshold. Speech developers may set their own threshold but often an acoustic model (AM) or CC update alters the correct-accept (CA) vs. false-accept (FA...

Let X be a nonempty compact subset of a Banach space (E,‖·‖), and let C(X) and CC(X) denote the families of all nonempty compact and all nonempty compact convex subsets of X , respectively. It is well known that (C(X),H) is compact, where H is the Hausdorff metric induced by ‖·‖. For A,B ∈ CC(X) and t ∈ R = (−∞,+∞), let A + B = {a + b : a∈ A, b ∈ B}, and let tA= {ta : a∈ A}. In the sequel, we a...

The potential utility of the Collaborative Cross (CC) mouse resource was evaluated to better understand complex traits related to energy balance. A primary focus was to examine if genetic diversity in emerging CC lines (pre-CC) would translate into equivalent phenotypic diversity. Second, we mapped quantitative trait loci (QTL) for 15 metabolism- and exercise-related phenotypes in this populati...

Many researchers argue that students must be meaningfully engaged in the learning resources for effective learning to occur. However, current online learners still report a problematic lack of attractive and challenging learning resources that engage them in the learning process. This endemic problem is even more evident in online collaborative learning approaches whose resources lack of authen...

background: clomiphen citrate (cc) is the first line therapy for women with infertility and poly cystic ovary syndrome( pcos). however, 20-25% of women are resistant to cc and do not ovulate. objective: the objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of sequential treatment of metformin and incremental doses of letrozole in induction of ovulation in cases of cc-resistant pcos patients....

We present a flexible parallel implementation of the exhaustive grid search algorithm for multidimensional QTL mapping problems. A generic, parallel algorithm is presented and a two-level scheme is introduced for partitioning the work corresponding to the independent computational tasks in the algorithm. At the outer level, a static blockcyclic partitioning is used, and at the inner level a dyn...

In this thesis we have proposed a power efficient transmission scheme, CPMSC-IFDMA, for uplink LTE. In uplink LTE, efficiency of the transmitter power amplifier is a major concern, as the transmitter is placed in the mobile device which has limited power supply. The proposed scheme, CPM-SC-IFDMA, combines the key advantages of CPM (continuous phase modulation) with SC-IFDMA (single carrier freq...

THIS PAPER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE STUDENT PAPER AWARD In classic trellis-coded modulation (TCM) signal constellations of twice the cardinality are applied when compared to an uncoded transmission enabling transmission of one bit of redundancy per PAM-symbol, i.e., rates of K K+1 when 2 denotes the cardinality of the signal constellation. In order to support different rates, multi-dimensional (i.e....

BACKGROUND Endocardial mapping before sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (SMVT) induction may reduce mapping time during tachycardia and facilitate the ablation of unmappable VT. METHODS AND RESULTS Left ventricular electroanatomic voltage maps obtained during right ventricular apex pacing in 26 patients with chronic myocardial infarction referred for VT ablation were analyzed to i...

Motion planning is the problem of computing valid paths through an environment. However, because computing exact solutions is intractable, sampling-based algorithms, such as Probabilistic RoadMaps (PRMs), have gained popularity. PRMs compute an approximate mapping of the planning space by sacrificing completeness in favor of efficiency. However, these algorithms have certain bottlenecks that hi...