Utilizing echoic intension and distribution from different organs and local details of human body, ultrasonic image can catch important medical pathological changes, which unfortunately may be affected by ultrasonic speckle noise. A feature preserving ultrasonic image denoising and edge enhancement scheme is put forth, which includes two terms: anisotropic diffusion and edge enhancement, contro...

A comparison of textual and echoic prompts was conducted to determine which form of prompts was more effective for teaching intraverbal behavior to a 6-year-old boy with autism. A multiple baseline design across three sets of questions measured (a) the number of full-sentence target answers, (b) partial answers that made sense, and (c) partial answers that did not make sense, or no response, to...

Preceding treatment All with recurrent colic abdomen pain (some very severe), diarrhea/obstipation, distention, “doughy & dam-board phenomena”, constitutional symptoms, cough and X-ray suggestive lung tuberculosis. Intestinal ultrasound on the tympanic area were normal, but on dullness pain area were: a/hypo-peristaltic, irregular thickening heterogenic hypo-echoic, irregular margin of the wall...

The paper argues for the importance of utterances (as opposed to \sen-tences in context") as basic units in dialogue. The main case study is clar-iication: a characterization is provided within KOS, a recently developed synthesis of situation semantics and dialogue games, of the clariications that can follow up on an utterance. This involves outlining: (a) a theory of understanding for dialogue...