Alternatives to animal testing are being used assess the safety of raw ingredients during process developing cosmetics. However, since cosmetic products composed a variety ingredients, product itself should also be tested. In this study, we attempted evaluate skin irritation potential lotions by modifying existing alternative test methods. To commercial in form an objective indicator, calculate...

The basic building blocks of a speech segmentation system are its units. Thus it’s an important stage to select appropriate units into which the continuous speech needs to be segmented. The syllable like units is found to be the better representative for Indian languages. Punjabi is the most widely used language, thus this paper describes the automatic segmentation of Punjabi speech into syllab...

This contribution considers nonlinear space–time equalisation (STE) for multiple receive-antenna induced single-input multipleoutput (SIMO) systems. By exploiting the inherent symmetry of the underlying optimal Bayesian STE solution, a novel symmetric radial basis function (RBF) based STE scheme is proposed, which is capable of approaching the optimal Bayesian equalisation performance. Adaptive...

On-farm practices like premature weaning and frequent regrouping induce stress to pigs. Early socialization or environmental enrichment in piglets reduce stress, as suggested previous studies. Little research with both effects commercial settings was found. The aim investigate the of preweaning on life-long performance 661 Danbred Two treatments were distinguished during suckling period: contro...

It it shown that geometric morphisms between elementary toposes can be represented as certain adjunctions between the corresponding categories of locales. These adjunctions are characterized by (i) they preserve the order enrichment and the Sierpiński locale, and (ii) they satisfy Frobenius reciprocity.

Hope-focused couple enrichment has been evaluated by a recent review (Jakubowski et al., 2004) to be one of four empirically supported couple enrichment interventions. We review the essence of the hope-focused approach for the therapist, and in doing so we present and discuss four possible reasons for the efficacy of the hope-focused approach. These include (1) a focus on hope, (2) a simple str...

Pattern-based approaches for knowledge identification in texts assume that linguistic regularities always characterise the same kind of knowledge, such as semantic relations. We report the experimental evaluation of a large set of patterns using an ontology enrichment tool: CAMÉLÉON. Results underline the strong corpus influence on the patterns efficiency and on their meaning. This influence co...

THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT ON ABSTINENCE AND RELAPSE USING AN ANIMAL CONFLICT MODEL by