In spoken word production, a proximate unit is the first phonological unit at the sublexical level that is selectable for production (O'Seaghdha et al., 2010). The present study investigated whether the proximate unit in Chinese handwritten character production is the stroke, the radical, or something in between. A written version of the form preparation task was adopted. Chinese participants l...

Not to be left out in the move to the next generation of RISC, MIPS Technologies (MTI) unveiled the design of the R10000, also known as T5. As the spiritual successor to the R4000, the new design will be the basis of high-end MIPS processors for some time, at least until 1997. By swapping superpipelining for an aggressively out-oforder superscalar design, the R10000 has the potential to deliver...

Corpus-based speech synthesis systems deliver a considerable synthesis quality since the unit selection approaches have been optimized in the last decade. Unit selection attempts to find the best combination of speech unit sequences in an inventory so that the perceptual differences between expected (natural) and synthesized signals are as low as possible. However, mismatches and distortions ar...

conclusions considering the personal and background characteristics of personnel and understanding their association with stress and stressful situations encompasses the ability to persevere and adapt to contextual stressors. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 3643 anonymous questionnaires were disseminated among nurses in different hospitals in tehran, iran, by utilizing multi...

medication errors account for about 78% of serious medical errors in intensive care unit (icu). so far no study has been performed in iran to evaluate all type of possible medication errors in icu. therefore the objective of this study was to reveal the frequency, type and consequences of all type of errors in an icu of a large teaching hospital. the prospective observational study was conducte...

Partial search has been proposed recently for finding the target block containing a target element with fewer queries than the full Grover search algorithm which can locate the target precisely. Since such partial searches will likely be used as subroutines for larger algorithms their success rate is important. We propose a partial search algorithm which achieves success with unit probability.

The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of ischemia on low-threshold motor unit conduction velocity. Nine subjects were trained to isolate the activity of a single motor unit (target motor unit) in the abductor pollicis brevis muscle with feedback on surface EMG signals recorded with a 16-electrode linear array. After training, the subjects activated the target motor unit at approximate...