Umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation is being used as an alternative source of haematopoietic stem cells for bone marrow reconstitution. Umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation is being used as an alternative source of haematopoietic stem cells for bone marrow reconstitution. Separation and processing of UCB samples in large numbers for storage in cord blood banks ideally needs to be p...

This study examines listener judgments of musical tension for a recording of a Schubert song and its harmonic reduction. Continuous tension ratings collected in an experiment and quantitative descriptions of the piece's musical features, include dynamics, pitch height, harmony, onset frequency, and tempo, were analyzed from two different angles. In the first part of the analysis, the different ...

The present paper presents an application that composes formal poetry in Spanish in a semiautomatic interactive fashion. ASPERA is a forward reasoning rulebased system that obtains from the user basic style parameters and an intended message; applies a knowledge-based preprocessor to select the most appropriate metric structure for the user's wishes; and, by intelligent adaptation of selected e...

This paper explores the narration of Pushkin’s novel (in translation into English by James E. Falen) by Stephen Fry and Rafael Corkhill. The aim was to analyse the actors’ oral performance in terms of prosodic invariants as compared to the Russian original recited by two professional actors. An attempt was made to measure the ‘authenticity’ of the translation by application of cluster analysis....

Abstract: This paper investigates the usability of SriRamshalakha, a vedic tool used in Indian Astrology, in the encryption and decryption of plain English text. Sri Ram Shalaka appears in Sri RamChartmanas, one of the very popular sacred epic of Hindu religion, written by great Saint Tulsidasji. SriRamshalakha is used to fetch/infer the approximate answer of questions/decisions by the believer...

Three cases are presented to compare and contrast the radiographic findings in hydropneumothorax versus simple pleural effusion. The first case is of a 72-year-old man with metastatic colon cancer presenting with worsening shortness of breath. Post-thoracentesis chest radiographs (Fig 1) and CT (Fig 2) demonstrate a hydropneumothorax. The second case is of a 67 year-old male with non-small cell...