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An Open CAPT System for Prosody Practice: Practical Steps towards Multilingual Setup

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This paper discusses the challenges posed in creating a Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) environment for multiple languages. By selecting one language from each of three different language families, we show that a single environment may be
Natalia Bogach, John Blake, Iurii Lezhenin   +2 more
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The Development of a Paediatric Phoneme Discrimination Test for Arabic Phonemic Contrasts

Audiology Research, 2021
Objective: The aim of this project was to develop the Arabic CAPT (A-CAPT), a Standard Arabic version of the CHEAR auditory perception test (CAPT) that assesses consonant perception ability in children.
Hanin Rayes, Ghada Al-Malky, Deborah Vickers   +2 more
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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Systems Applied to Pronunciation Assessment of L2 Spanish for Japanese Speakers

Applied Sciences, 2021
General-purpose automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have improved in quality and are being used for pronunciation assessment. However, the assessment of isolated short utterances, such as words in minimal pairs for segmental approaches, remains an
Cristian Tejedor-García, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo, David Escudero-Mancebo   +2 more
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Effects of combined therapy of ACE inhibitor and exercise on the development of diabetic nephropathy in Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima fatty rats

Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 2020
Our previous studies used type-2 diabetic model Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima fatty (OLETF) rats, and showed that both exercise and diet regimen decreased body weight (BW) and improved glucose intolerance (GI), and dyslipidemia.
Shinichiro Aoyama, Daisuke Shindo, Junichi Otsuka, Eriko Matsuo, Shigeru Matsubara, Masato Suzuki   +5 more
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Association of Cancer Stem Cell Radio-Resistance Under Ultra-High Dose Rate FLASH Irradiation With Lysosome-Mediated Autophagy

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021
Cancer stem cell (CSC) is thought to be the major cause of radio-resistance and relapse post radiotherapy (RT). Recently ultra-high dose rate “FLASH-RT” evokes great interest for its decreasing normal tissue damages while maintaining tumor responses ...
Gen Yang, Chunyang Lu, Zhusong Mei, Xiaoyi Sun, Jintao Han, Jing Qian, Yulan Liang, Zhuo Pan, Defeng Kong, Shirui Xu, Zhipeng Liu, Ying Gao, Guijun Qi, Yinren Shou, Shiyou Chen, Zhengxuan Cao, Ye Zhao, Chen Lin, Yanying Zhao, Yixing Geng, Wenjun Ma, Xueqing Yan, Xueqing Yan   +22 more
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Cross-Platform Mobile CALL Environment for Pronunciation Teaching and Learning [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2020
Mobile technologies promote computer-assisted language learning (CALL) while mobile applications, being learner-oriented by design, provide a powerful founding to build individual self-paced environments for language study.
Kuznetsov Andrei, Lamtev Anton, Lezhenin Iurii, Zhuikov Artem, Maltsev Mikhail, Boitsova Elena, Bogach Natalia, Pyshkin Evgeny   +7 more
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Ultra-High Dose Rate FLASH Irradiation Induced Radio-Resistance of Normal Fibroblast Cells Can Be Enhanced by Hypoxia and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Resulting From Loss of Cytochrome C

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021
Ultra-high dose rate FLASH irradiation (FLASH-IR) has got extensive attention since it may provide better protection on normal tissues while maintain tumor killing effect compared with conventional dose rate irradiation.
Jintao Han, Zhusong Mei, Chunyang Lu, Jing Qian, Yulan Liang, Xiaoyi Sun, Zhuo Pan, Defeng Kong, Shirui Xu, Zhipeng Liu, Ying Gao, Guijun Qi, Yinren Shou, Shiyou Chen, Zhengxuan Cao, Ye Zhao, Chen Lin, Yanying Zhao, Yixing Geng, Jiaer Chen, Xueqing Yan, Xueqing Yan, Wenjun Ma, Gen Yang   +23 more
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Oral Treatment of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats with Captopril-Surface Functionalized Furosemide-Loaded Multi-Wall Lipid-Core Nanocapsules

Pharmaceutics, 2020
Multi-wall lipid-core nanocapsule (MLNC) functionalized with captopril and nanoencapsulating furosemide within the core was developed as a liquid formulation for oral administration.
Cecilia B. Michalowski, Marcelo D. Arbo, Louise Altknecht, Andréia N. Anciuti, Angélica S. G. Abreu, Luciana M. R. Alencar, Adriana R. Pohlmann, Solange C. Garcia, Sílvia S. Guterres   +8 more
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End-to-End Automatic Pronunciation Error Detection Based on Improved Hybrid CTC/Attention Architecture

Sensors, 2020
Advanced automatic pronunciation error detection (APED) algorithms are usually based on state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) techniques. With the development of deep learning technology, end-to-end ASR technology has gradually matured and ...
Long Zhang, Ziping Zhao, Chunmei Ma, Linlin Shan, Huazhi Sun, Lifen Jiang, Shiwen Deng, Chang Gao   +7 more
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AI-based chatbot micro-intervention for parents: Meaningful engagement, learning, and efficacy

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
IntroductionMental health issues have been on the rise among children and adolescents, and digital parenting programs have shown promising outcomes. However, there is limited research on the potential efficacy of utilizing chatbots to promote parental ...
Guido A. Entenberg, Sophie Mizrahi, Hilary Walker, Shirin Aghakhani, Karin Mostovoy, Nicole Carre, Zendrea Marshall, Gilly Dosovitsky, Daniellee Benfica, Alexandra Rousseau, Grace Lin, Eduardo L. Bunge, Eduardo L. Bunge   +12 more
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