With the rise of Deep Learning, speech Recognition has shown great results in recent years. As people who use video conferencing software on daily basis, we aim to demonstrate the viability of generating meeting transcripts using speech recognition combined with a preprocessing step of identifying unique speakers in the meeting. If successful, participants in the meeting can focus on engaging f...

A case of a 27 year old male with a duplication of part of the long arm of chromosome 22 (22q11.2-q13.1) together with a pericentric inversion of the same chromosome is reported. Particular phenotypic features of note include absence of speech, persistent self-injury, lack of daily living skills, colobomata, and very poor vision. Similarities between this case and other case reports of duplicat...

Materials and methods A retrospective case note review was performed for 23 patients with a diagnosis of CRPS. All children were seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which has an ambulatory rehabilitation unit able to provide an intensive programme including twice daily physiotherapy, advice on pacing and pain management over a 2–3 week period. The main philosophy of the programme is that func...

Editor's Note: The circadian rhythm—the 24-hour cycle of the physiological processes of living beings—is instrumental in determining the sleeping and feeding patterns of all animals, including humans. Clear patterns of brainwave activity, hormone production, cell regeneration, and other biological activities are linked to this daily cycle. Our author focuses on two relatively new areas of resea...

BACKGROUND/AIM Carteolol is a beta adrenoceptor antagonist used topically to reduce intraocular pressure, typically twice daily. In an effort to provide a once daily dosing regimen, carteolol was formulated with 1% alginic acid. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of carteolol alginate solution in comparison with standard carteolol solution. METHODS This was a ...

In this note, we examine whether the volatility predictive power of investor sentiment for currencies and commodities is sensitive to COVID-19 pandemic. The Credit Suisse Fear Barometer (CSFB) VIX are used measure sentiment. seven major currencies, gold, oil investigated. Using daily data from 2005 2020, show that a better predictor than CSFB. However, they have no during pandemic period. This ...

BACKGROUND A nationwide study was conducted to explore the short term association between daily individual meteorological parameters and the incidence of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) treated with coronary emergency catheter interventions in the Republic of Slovenia, a south-central European country. METHOD We linked meteorological data with daily ACS incidence for the entire population of Sl...

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...