In this research we diagnose two commercial automatic speech recognizers (ASRs) on a corpus of academic lectures in Hebrew. Our goal is not only to measure the engines' performance but to find out if current Hebrew ASRs' transcription can be a reasonable replacement to human transcription, or at least a significant bootstrapping for a manual post-processing of the automatic output. We performed...

We study structure formation in a phenomenological model of modified gravity which interpolates between ΛCDM and phenomenological DGP-gravity. Generalisation of spherical collapse by using the Birkhoff-theorem along with the modified growth equation shows that the overdensity for spherical collapse δc in these models is significantly lowered compared to ΛCDM, leading to enhanced number densitie...

and MS Thesis defense Date: 13th April 2009 Automatic Speech Recognition systems (ASRs) recognize word sequences by employing algorithms such as Hidden Markov Models. Given the same speech to recognize, the different ASRs may output very similar results but with errors such as insertion, substitution or deletion of incorrect words. Since different ASRs may be based on different algorithms, it i...

BACKGROUND Adult attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is underdiagnosed in the primary care setting despite 3% to 6% of adults having ADHD-like symptoms. The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale-V1.1 (ASRS-V1.1) is a validated, 6-question screen for adult ADHD. Our purpose was to analyze this tool for evaluating patients in a busy primary care setting. METHODS The ASRS-V1.1 was administere...

BACKGROUND Opportunities for face-to-face communication with patients is increasing in modern hospital pharmacist practice. This may impose new burdens on hospital pharmacists. We performed a cross-sectional study to examine the prevalence of psychological distress, burnout, and compassion fatigue among hospital pharmacists. We also investigated possible relevant factors, such as sex, years of ...

—The adult sex ratio (ASR) is an important component of a population’s demographics and can be used as an indicator of a population’s status. However, the causes of annual variation in ASRs are unknown for many species. Fluctuations in ASR can arise through demographic stochasticity and intense selective harvesting. In this study we investigate the longterm patterns of variation in the ASRs (bu...

PURPOSE The cancer survival was characterized by following up sampled subgroups of cancer cases from three population-based cancer registries in Northeast China. MATERIALS AND METHODS Survival analysis was used to analyze 6,871 patients, who had one of the 21 most common cancers based on sampling from the population-based cancer registries of three cities in Liaoning Province. All patients we...

This study aimed to analyze trends in the 10 leading causes of death in Korea from 1983 to 2012. Death rates were derived from the Korean Statistics Information Service database and age-adjusted to the 2010 population. Joinpoint regression analysis was used to identify the points when statistically significant changes occurred in the trends. Between 1983 and 2012, the age-standardized death rat...

Recently, Brownstein and Moffat proposed a gravitational mechanism to explain the Pioneer anomaly based on their scalar-tensorvector (STVG) metric theory of gravity. In this paper we show that their model, fitted to the presently available data for the anomalous Pioneer 10/11 acceleration, is in contrast with the latest observational determinations of the perihelion advances of Jupiter, Saturn ...