The introduction of ubiquitous computing and networking has fostered automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems of a distributed nature. The major challenge in deploying ubiquitous ASR is that the operating environments may change rapidly leaving the ASR system very vulnerable. This paper deals with the concept of making ASR systems context-aware with the aim of improving robustness against var...

In spoken language translation, it is crucial that an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system produces outputs that can be adequately translated by a statistical machine translation (SMT) system. While word error rate (WER) is the standard metric of ASR quality, the assumption that each ASR error type is weighted equally is violated in a SMT system that relies on structured input. In this pap...

Severe hypoxia elicits aquatic surface respiration (ASR) behaviour in many species of fish, where ventilation of the gills at the air-water interface improves O2 uptake and survival. ASR is an important adaptation that may have given rise to air breathing in vertebrates. The neural substrate of this behaviour, however, is not defined. We characterized ASR in developing and adult zebrafish (Dani...

ÐStartle is a fast response to sudden, intense stimuli and probably protects the organism from injury by a predator or by a blow. The acoustic startle response (ASR) of mammals is mediated by a relatively simple neuronal circuit located in the lower brainstem. Neurons of the caudal pontine reticular nucleus (PnC) are key elements of this primary ASR pathway. The ASR in humans and animals has a ...

در صنعت پالایشگاه و پتروشیمی‌ها به دلیل وجود تجهیزات تمام فلزی محیط اسیدی خوردگیتنشی زیاد است با توجه افزایش کاربرد فولادهای زنگ نزن این صنایع پژوهش بررسی اثر ضربات امواج اولتراسونیک بر رفتار خوردگی فولاد 316 (S.S 316) می‌پردازیم. هدف از تأثیر روش تنش‌زدایی برافزایش مقاومت قطعات محیط‌های خورنده است. لازم ذکر که، تنش پسمان نمونه‌ها جوش‌کاری ایجادشده ابتدا نمونه مدنظر استفاده ارتعاش تحت فرکانس 20...

INTRODUCTION No population-based data of cancer incidence from Morocco have been published before. This is the first report of cancer incidence in Rabat from a population-based cancer registry for the period 2006-2008. MATERIALS AND METHODS The cancer registry collects data on all new cases of cancer diagnosed in the resident population of the Rabat area. Data collection is an active process ...