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Open AccessNetwork pharmacology, molecular docking, and dynamics analyses to predict the antiviral activity of ginger constituents against coronavirus infection
COVID-19 is a global pandemic that caused a dramatic loss of human life worldwide, leading to accelerated research for antiviral drug discovery. Herbal medicine is one of the most commonly used alternative med...
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Open AccessPreventive HIPEC in combination with perioperative FLOT versus FLOT alone for resectable diffuse type gastric and gastroesophageal junction type II/III adenocarcinoma – the phase III “PREVENT”- (FLOT9) trial of the AIO /CAOGI /ACO
The main reason for treatment failure after curative surgical resection of gastric cancer is intra-abdominal spread, with 40–50% peritoneal seeding as primary localization of recurrence. Peritoneal relapse is ...
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Open AccessHidden ileostomy as a rescue procedure in major colorectal surgeries: a novel technique to prevent re-laparotomy in anastomotic leak cases
Anastomotic leak is a major cause of morbidity and mortality of patients worldwide, and it has remained stable over the last years. Routine construction of protective ileostomy is associated with stoma and neg...
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Open Access30-Day Morbidity and Mortality of Bariatric Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Multinational Cohort Study of 7704 Patients from 42 Countries
There are data on the safety of cancer surgery and the efficacy of preventive strategies on the prevention of postoperative symptomatic COVID-19 in these patients. But there is little such data for any electiv...
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Observer-Based Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control for Nonlinear Networked Control Systems with Delays
One of the popular area of research for the past decade in the academia as well as in the industry is networked control systems (NCS). Variable time delays induced by the network and data packet dropout during...
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Autonomous Trenchless Horizontal Directional Drilling
Over the past 25 years trenchless technology has flourished in many pipeline installation applications as water industry, sanitary sewer, and natural gas pipeline industry. Trenchless technology gained more po...
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Open AccessThe impact of surgical experience and frequency of practice on perioperative outcomes in pancreatic surgery
We aimed to determine the impact of surgical experience and frequency of practice on perioperative morbidity and mortality in pancreatic surgery.
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Decentralized Backstep** Control of a Quadrotor with Tilted-rotor under Wind Gusts
Conventional unmanned aerial vehicles, quadrotor have a plethora of applications for civilian and military purposes. Quadrotors as the name implies usually have four input variables (fixed rotors) which are us...
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Arabic phonemes recognition using hybrid LVQ/HMM model for continuous speech recognition
In attempt to increase the rate of Arabic phonemes recognition, we introduce a novel hybrid recognition algorithm. The algorithm is composed of the learning vector quantization (LVQ) and hidden Markov model (H...
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Modeling and simulation of quadrotor UAV with tilting rotors
Quadrotors have recently been drawing greater research and commercial attention to the point that they have become one of the most popular types of unmanned aerial vehicles. Their applications vary from entert...
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Integration of multivariate statistical process control and engineering process control: a novel framework
Statistical process control is being used along with classical feedback control systems (which are also termed as Engineering Process Control, EPC) for the purposes of detecting faults and avoiding over adjust...
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Phonetically rich and balanced text and speech corpora for Arabic language
This paper describes the preparation, recording, analyzing, and evaluation of a new speech corpus for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The speech corpus contains a total of 415 sentences recorded by 40 (20 male a...
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Within-word pronunciation variation modeling for Arabic ASRs: a direct data-driven approach
Pronunciation variation is a major obstacle in improving the performance of Arabic automatic continuous speech recognition systems. This phenomenon alters the pronunciation spelling of words beyond their liste...
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Arabic Speech Recognition Systems
This chapter presents a brief overview of the evolution of Arabic speech recognition systems. It provides a literature survey of Arabic speech recognition systems and discusses some of the challenges of Arabic...
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Cross-Word Pronunciation Variations
This chapter presents the cross-word problem of the Arabic language. It also includes the main sources of this problem: Idgham (merging), Iqlaab (changing), Hamzat Al-Wasl deleting, and merging of two consecut...
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Performance and Evaluation
This chapter presents the results achieved by modeling cross-word pronunciation variation problem of MSA. We practically investigated two MSA phonological rules (Idgham and Iqlaab) which significantly enhanced...
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The Baseline System
This chapter presents the main components of the baseline system that was used to test the knowledge-based proposed method. The Arabic speech corpus, Arabic phoneme set, Arabic language model, and Arabic pronu...
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Modeling of Arabic Cross-Word Pronunciation Variations
This chapter discusses some Arabic phonological rules that can be used to capture the variations occurring at words’ junctures. The rules include Idgham, Iqlaab, Hamzat Al-Wasl, and merging of two consecutive ...
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An Overview of Speech Recognition Systems
This chapter presents an introduction to automatic speech recognition systems. It includes the mathematical formulation of speech recognizers. The main components of speech recognition systems are introduced: ...
