* Expert in ENT and Legal Medicine. Assistant Teacher of Cervical-Facial Surgery at Santa Casa da Bahia, Hospital Santa Izabel; and Teacher of Cervical-Facial Anatomy at UNIMEBA. ** PhD in ENT by USP – Head of the ENT Discipline and Cervical-Facial Surgery at Santa Casa da Bahia, Hospital Santa Izabel. *** Master Degree in Pathology by Fio Cruz/ UFBA Assistant Professor of ENT and Cervical-Faci...

Júlio Leonardo Barbosa Pereira, Lucas Alverne Freitas de Albuquerque, Mauro Cruz Machado Borgo, Gerival Vieira Junior, Paulo Pereira Christo, Gervásio Teles C. de Carvalho I Neurosurgery, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil. II Research Program of the Santa Casa, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil. III Neurosurgery, Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte and Faculdade de Ciências Medicas de Mi...

In today’s world of highly dynamic computing environments, autonomic applications are the need of the hour. By an autonomic application, we mean an application that is able to adapt to changes in its execution environment dynamically and transparently. CASA (Contract-based Adaptive Software Architecture) provides a framework for enabling the development and operation of autonomic applications. ...

Amiodarone is used to treat life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. Amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity (APT) can be difficult to diagnose. APT may result in increased mucus production and mucin expression. Thus, serum mucin-1 was evaluated as a marker for amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity. Concentrations of mucin-1 in peripheral blood were determined using cancer-associated serum antigen (...

BACKGROUND To improve estimates of net primary production for terrestrial ecosystems of the continental United States, we evaluated a new image fusion technique to incorporate high resolution Landsat land cover data into a modified version of the CASA ecosystem model. The proportion of each Landsat land cover type within each 0.004 degree resolution CASA pixel was used to influence the ecosyste...

ii Abstract One of the goals of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) is to improve storm-scale numerical weather prediction (NWP) by collecting data with dense X-band radar network which provides high-resolution low-level coverage, and by assimilating such data into NWP models. During the first spring storm...

In dogs and cats, computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA) was originally described almost 20 years ago. Subsequently, numerous CASA systems were validated and used for various applications in dogs and to a lesser extent in cats. CASA systems offer an accurate, rapid, objective and simultaneous assessment of different semen parameters allowing the visualization of subtle changes in sperm charact...

The stock assessment model described here is based on Sullivan et al.’s (1990) CASA model. CASA is entirely length-based with population dynamic calculations in terms of the number of individuals in each length group during each year. Age is largely irrelevant in model calculations. Unlike many other length-based stock assessment approaches, CASA is a dynamic, non-equilibrium model based on a f...

In this paper, we propose a computational auditory scene analysis (CASA)–based front–end for two–microphone speech recognition in a car environment. One of the important issues associated with CASA is the accurate estimation of mask information for target speech separation within multiple microphone noisy speech. For such a task, the time–frequency mask information is compensated through the si...