In forensic casework, the application of automatic speaker verification (SV) aims to determine the likelihood ratio of a suspect being vs. being not the speaker of an incriminating speech recording. For that purpose, the likelihood of the anti-speaker has to be estimated from the speech of an adequate number of other speakers. In many cases, speech signals of such an anti-speaker population are...

A robust approach that unifies independent component analysis (ICA) subspace feature selection in connection with the speaker verification (SV) is proposed. ICA subspace provides statistically independent basis that spans the input space of corrupted speech, then the selected independent components are applied to a vector quantizer (VQ) for SV purpose. The Euclidean distance in the feature spac...

PURPOSE Congenital and acquired pathologies of the seminal vesicles (SV) are rare diseases. The diagnosis of SV anomalies is frequently delayed or wrong due to the rarity of these diseases and the lack of adequate evaluation of SV pathology. For this reason, we aimed to comprehensively evaluate SV pathologies and accompanying genitourinary system abnormalities. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between M...

Sandhi shoola refers to the joints pain where there is pain with or without inflammation and can be caused by injury or a number of autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and gout. Ayurveda system of medicine believes this as Sandhi shoola condition in which there is difficulty in walking and running and based on the physical examination, it is categorized into major types i.e. Aamva...

Spin-polarized electronic and transport properties of Armchair GraphdiyneNanoribbons (A-GDYNR) with single vacancy (SV), two types of configurations fordouble vacancy (DV1, DV2) and multi vacancy (MV) defects are studied by nonequilibriumGreen’s function (NEGF) combined with density functional theory (DFT).The results demonstrate that the A-GDYNR with the SV has the lowe...

In this paper we study the detailed distributional properties of integrated non-Gaussian OU (intOU) processes. Both exact and approximate results are given. We emphasise the study of the tail behaviour of the intOU process. Our results have many potential applications in financial economics, for OU processes are used as models of instantaneous volatility in stochastic volatility (SV) models. In...

Mats Dreifaldt (2013): Conduits in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: Saphenous vein, radial and internal thoracic arteries. Örebro Studies in Medicine 93. A novel technique for saphenous vein (SV) graft harvesting, the No-touch technique (NT), has been developed at the Dept. of Cardiovascular surgery, Örebro University hospital. With NT the SV is harvested with a pedicle of surrounding t...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an emerging modality in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Derivation of stroke volume (SV) from the pulmonary flow curves is considered as a standard in this respect. Our aim was to investigate the accuracy of pulmonary artery (PA) flow for measuring SV. METHODS Thirty-four PAH patients und...