This paper addresses the issue of large-vocabulary recognition in a specific word class. We propose a two-pass strategy in which only major cities are explicitly represented in the first stage lexicon. An unknown word model encoded as a phone loop is used to detect OOV city names (referred to as rare city names). After which SpeM, a tool that can extract words and word-initial cohorts from phon...

Nagaoka City, a city with a population of about 150,000 in Niigata prefecture, experienced an epidemic of poliovirus type 2 infections in 1958 in which 21 paralytic cases were observed, showing a case incidence of approximately 40 per 100,000 population (Saito et al., 1960, Kitaoka, 1960). The Health Authorities of the city had been interested in introducing protective measures against polio in...

The concept of livable city was put forward naturally and began to gain more attention when people care more about human needs during the economic development. In this paper, we define a livable city as an urban area takes the residents’ demand as first priority. It has a pleasant ecological environment, a mature community with rich public resources such as culture, transportation and medical s...

A smart grid is one of the most important applications in smart cities. In a smart grid, a smart meter acts as a sensor node in a sensor network, and a central device collects power usage from every smart meter. This paper focuses on a centralized data collection problem of how to collect every power usage from every meter without collisions in an environment in which the time synchronization a...

seismic refraction and downhole survey were employed to study dynamic characteristics of subsurface materials in bam city, southeast of iran. the data acquisition was performed at 160 p and s-wave refraction stations and 15 boreholes in the city. to derive velocity depth sections along these profiles as well as to perform downhole diagrams, seisimager software was used. based on the obtained va...

A37 HIV drug resistance monitoring in children receiving first line antiretroviral therapy at two pediatric hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City Anh Q. Luong, Ton Tran, Khanh Thu H. Hoang, Ngoc Thao T. Do, Thinh X. Vu, Khanh H. Truong, Quy T. Du, Kim Thoa P. Le, Viet C. Do, An T. Vu, Thanh Thuy T. Le, Kim Chi T. Nguyen, Binh K. Nguyen, Hien. T Bui, Xuan Lien T. Truong, Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh C...

A37 HIV drug resistance monitoring in children receiving first line antiretroviral therapy at two pediatric hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City Anh Q. Luong, Ton Tran, Khanh Thu H. Hoang, Ngoc Thao T. Do, Thinh X. Vu, Khanh H. Truong, Quy T. Du, Kim Thoa P. Le, Viet C. Do, An T. Vu, Thanh Thuy T. Le, Kim Chi T. Nguyen, Binh K. Nguyen, Hien. T Bui, Xuan Lien T. Truong, Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh C...