In recent years there has been an exponential increase of fillers use in aesthetic medicine. The popularity of this anti-wrinkle product is based on their capacity to offer significant improvement in the aesthetic field, particularly to skin rejuvenating processes with non-invasive and less expensive techniques, if compared to the surgical methods (i.e. surgical lifting). The great number of fi...

A new scheme of detecting fillers in spontaneous speech recognition process was developed. When a filler hypothesis appears during the 2 pass decoding of a speech recognizer with two-pass configuration, a prosodic module checks the morpheme which is hypothesized as a filler and outputs the likelihood score of the morpheme being a filler. When the likelihood score exceeds a threshold, a prosodic...

Soft tissue augmentation with temporary dermal fillers is a continuously growing field, supported by the ongoing development and advances in technology and biocompatibility of the products marketed. The longer lasting, less immunogenic and thus more convenient hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers are encompassing by far the biggest share of the temporary dermal filler market. Since the approval of the ...

This work reports the use of non-traditional fillers as flame retardants in polyester resin composites. Studies have been carried out to evaluate the fire-retardant properties of non-traditional fillers viz. hydroxyapatite, zinc borate and fly ash in combination with traditional fire retardant filler antimony trioxide, in prepolymer polyester resin composite system. Polyester resin was synthesi...

BACKGROUND In Europe, numerous dermal fillers have been utilized for the past decade. A lot of drawbacks have been reported and sometimes, severe complications occurred. OBJECTIVE Our purpose is to report the clinical aspects of the adverse reactions following injections of some of the dermal fillers. Histological aspects of complications are also described. RESULTS Adverse reactions second...

This paper introduces a never before described strategy used by bilinguals to fill hesitation pauses. This strategy proved so unique that it was given the name ‘idiosyncratic filler.’ It describes a filler type that is produced unusually often by one individual when hesitating. It is usually a particular lexical filler that is used as often as or more often than all other lexical fillers combin...

Injectable fillers are increasingly used for midface augmentation, which can be performed for facial rejuvenation and treatment of HIV facial lipoatrophy. A variety of temporary and permanent filler agents has been developed, including calcium hydroxylapatite, collagen, liquid silicone, polytetrafluoroethylene, hyaluronic acid, poly-l-lactic acid, and polyacrylamide gel. Facial fillers are some...

This paper presents a novel metadata extraction (MDE) system for automatically detecting edited words, fillers, and self-interruption points in conversational speech. Our edit word detection sub-system combines a Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) noisy channel model, a statistical syntactic language model, and a MaxEnt reranker. Hand-built, deterministic rules are used to detect fillers. Self-interr...

The neutron charge form factor G En (q) is determined from an analysis of the deuteron quadrupole form factor F C2 (q) data. Recent calculations, based on a variety of different model interactions and currents, indicate that the contributions associated with the uncertain two-body operators of shorter range are relatively small for F C2 (q), even at large momentum transfer q. Hence, G En (q) ca...

dand f -shells support a large number of local degrees of freedom: dipoles, quadrupoles, octupoles, hexadecapoles, etc. Usually, the ordering of any multipole component leaves the system sufficiently symmetrical to allow a second symmetry breaking transition. To classify the possibilities, one has to construct the symmetry group of the first ordered phase, and then re-classify the order paramet...