Low-density microarrays that utilize short oligos (<100 nt) for capture are highly attractive for use in diagnostic applications, yet these experiments require strict quality control and meticulous reproducibility. However, a survey of current literature indicates vast inconsistencies in the spotting and processing procedures. In this study, spotting and processing protocols were optimized for ...

Keyword spotting deals with the search of a reduced set of keywords in audio content. Phone Lattice-based approaches are very fast but achieve poor results. HMM-based keyword spotting systems deal with filler models to absorb the Out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words and achieve best results although they are slower. We propose a technique which combines them in order to perform a confidence measure to...

Searching documents for information and retrieval of relevant documents is a basic activity. Various tools are readily available for searching and retrieval from digital documents, but not much robust methods are available for retrieval from historic documents and old manuscripts as they are not digitized but available in scanned formats. Conventional way of retrieval from scanned document imag...

A finite element method is used to solve the problem involving thermoelastodynamic instability (TEDI) in frictional sliding systems. The resulting matrix equation contains a complex eigenvalue that represents the exponential growth rate of temperature, displacement, and velocity fields. Compared to the thermoelastic instability (TEI) in which eigenmodes always decay with time when the sliding s...

In this paper we propose a new scheduling algorithm called Real Time Scheduling (RTS) which uses virtual nodes for self stabilization. This algorithm deals with all the contributing components of the end-to-end travelling delay of data packets in sensor network and with virtual nodes algorithm achieves QoS in terms of packet delivery, multiple connections, better power management and stable rou...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of endometriosis in women with premenstrual spotting and to determine the predictive value of this symptom in the diagnosis of endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 80 consecutive women who presented to the infertility clinic for evaluation and who subsequently underwent laparoscopic assessment...

In this paper we present a word spotting system in text lines for offline Indic scripts such as Bangla (Bengali) and Devanagari. Recently, it was shown that zone-wise recognition method improves the word recognition performance than conventional full word recognition system in Indic scripts [29]. Inspired with this idea we consider the zone segmentation approach and use middle zone information ...