Significant performance gains have been reported separately for speaker recognition (SR) and language recognition (LR) tasks using either DNN posteriors of sub-phonetic units or DNN feature representations, but the two techniques have not been compared on the same SR or LR task or across SR and LR tasks using the same DNN. In this work we present the application of a single DNN for both tasks u...

The signal recognition particle and its receptor (SR) target nascent secretory proteins to the ER. SR is a heterodimeric ER membrane protein whose subunits, SRalpha and SRbeta, are both members of the GTPase superfamily. Here we characterize a 27-kD protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (encoded by SRP102) as a homologue of mammalian SRbeta. This notion is supported (a) by Srp102p's sequence simi...

The process of Ca2+ release from sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) comprises 4 phases in smooth muscle cells. Phase 1 is characterized by a large increase of the intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) with a minimal reduction of the free luminal SR [Ca2+] ([Ca2+]FSR). Importantly, active SR Ca2+ ATPases (SERCA pumps) are necessary for phase 1 to occur. This situation cannot be explained by the st...

BACKGROUND Breast reduction surgery is a common cosmetic surgery with a high incidence of blood loss and transfusion. In this surgery, the reduction of blood loss related to surgical manipulation and the volume of resected tissue is a target. In the present study, we compared the effects of esmolol-induced controlled hypotension on surgical visibility, surgical bleeding, and the duration of sur...

The present study was designed to study the effect of SR 58611A, a selective beta 3-adrenoceptor agonist against gastric ulcers: pylorus ligation, water immersion plus restraint stress (WIRS), ethanol, aspirin-induced and on cysteamine-induced duodenal ulcers, in rats. SR 58611A (10 mg/kg, p.o.) was found to be effective in attenuating gastric ulceration and the results were comparable with tho...

The higher resolution image can be reconstructed from lower resolution images using SuperResolution (SR) algorithm based on Support Vector Regression (SVR) by combining the pixel intensity values with local gradient information. Support Vector Machine (SVM) can construct a hyperplane in a high or infinite dimensional space which can be used for classification. Its regression version, Support Ve...

The Surface Realisation (SR) Task was a new task at Generation Challenges 2011, and had two tracks: (1) Shallow: mapping from shallow input representations to realisations; and (2) Deep: mapping from deep input representations to realisations. Five teams submitted six systems in total, and we additionally evaluated human toplines. Systems were evaluated automatically using a range of intrinsic ...

Stochastic resonance in a simple model of information transfer is studied for sensory neurons and ensembles of ion channels. An exact expression for the information gain is obtained for the Poisson process with the signal-modulated spiking rate. This result allows one to generalize the conventional stochastic resonance (SR) problem (with periodic input signal) to the arbitrary signals of finite...

BACKGROUND African Americans suffer from disproportionately high rates of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Psychosocial stress, lifestyle and telomere dysfunction contribute to the pathogenesis of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. This study evaluated effects of stress reduction and lifestyle modification on blood pressure, telomerase gene expression and lifestyle factors in Afri...