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Chapter 14: MD Anderson Publications and Publication Ethics
No full textDr. Goepfert has served on a number of editorial boards and is keenly interested in the educational dissemination of information critical to cancer research. In this section he talks about some of MD Anderson’s publications and also addresses some controversies with publication. He first raises the ethical issue of how authorship is assigned to a manuscript going out for publication. Today there are guidelines for assigning authorship, but twenty years ago, he explains, some department chairs at MD Anderson reviewed all manuscripts going for publication and insisted on being listed as first author of an article, whether they made any contribution to the research or not. Dr. Goepfert contrasts his own practice of putting his name on a paper only if he has contributed. Dr. Goepfert then shifts subjects and describes several MD Anderson educational publications, beginning with Cancer Bulletin, distributed free to all physicians across Texas.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/2010/thumbnail.jp
Muunnellun puheen korpus
No full textThis corpus includes normal and age-related disguised speech uttered by 60 native Finnish speakers (31 females and 29 males). The speakers were asked to read the same text fragments several times, in their modal voice and in two disguised voices, first pretending to be an elderly speaker and then pretending to be a child. The texts consisted of the Finnish translations of The Rainbow Passage and The North Wind and the Sun, and two selected English sentences from the TIMIT[1] corpus (SA1, SA2). The corpus includes samples of 78 different sentences per speaker (66 Finnish, 12 English). The speech was recorded simultaneously with a portable recorder with close-talking microphone, and two smartphones applications, yielding a total of 14040 audio files (3 * 4680). The material was recorded in summer 2015 in order to study the effect of voice disguise on automatic speaker recognition.
Access to the corpus requires a personal application, apply here: https://lbr.csc.fi
Further information is available in the following publications:
Rosa González Hautamäki, Md Sahidullah, Tomi Kinnunen and Ville Hautamäki, "Age-Related Voice Disguise and its Impact in Speaker Verification Accuracy", Proc. Odyssey: the Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Bilbao, Spain, June, 2016.
Rosa González Hautamäki, Md Sahidullah, Ville Hautamäki and Tomi Kinnunen, "Acoustical and perceptual study of voice disguise by age modification in speaker verification", Speech Communication, Volume 95, December 2017, Pages 1-15, doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2017.10.002Korpus koostuu puhenäytteistä, joissa puhujat lukevat tekstiä ääneen joko normaalilla äänellään tai siten, että he pyrkivät kuulostamaan eri-ikäiseltä henkilöltä. Aineisto sisältää näytteet 60 aikuiselta puhujalta (31 naista, 29 miestä), joista jokainen osallistui kahteen äänitykseen. Kummassakin äänityksessä puhuja luki ääneen kaksi suomenkielistä tekstikatkelmaa ja kaksi englanninkielistä virkettä kerran omalla äänellään, kerran teeskentelemällä vanhusta ja kerran teeskentelemällä lasta. Suomenkielisinä teksteinä olivat "Sateenkaaritarina" ja "Pohjantuuli ja aurinko". Englanninkieliset lauseet oli poimittu TIMIT[1]-korpuksesta (SA1, SA2). Aineisto sisältää jokaisen puhujan näytteet 78 eri virkkeestä (66 suomeksi ja 12 englanniksi). Virkkeet on tallennettu yksitellen WAV-muotoisiin äänitiedostoihin. Puhenäytteet äänitettiin samanaikaisesti sekä kannettavalla tallentimella että kahdella älypuhelimella, joten äänitiedostoja on kaikkiaan 14040 kpl (3 * 4680). Aineisto on kerätty kesällä 2015 hankkeessa, jossa tutkittiin teeskentelyn vaikutusta automaattiseen puheentunnistukseen.
Korpus vaatii käyttöluvan, hae tässä: https://lbr.csc.fi
Lisätietoa aineistosta seuraavissa julkaisuissa:
Rosa González Hautamäki, Md Sahidullah, Tomi Kinnunen and Ville Hautamäki, "Age-Related Voice Disguise and its Impact in Speaker Verification Accuracy", Proc. Odyssey: the Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Bilbao, Spain, June, 2016.
Rosa González Hautamäki, Md Sahidullah, Ville Hautamäki and Tomi Kinnunen, "Acoustical and perceptual study of voice disguise by age modification in speaker verification", Speech Communication, Volume 95, December 2017, Pages 1-15, doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2017.10.00
Promise - Spring 2020
Full text linkRogers Award honors MD Anderson nursing assistant MD Anderson awards highest nursing honor Low-grade serous ovarian cancer survivor establishes research nonprofit Celebrity Chef Cooking Demo makes young cancer patients sous-chefs for a day Bob’s Encore: hope in the fight against pancreatic cancer Board of Visitors welcomes seven new members Board of Visitors awards highest distinction to longtime member A Conversation with a Living Legend raises 2 million for cancer research, education and prevention Get to know Advance Team’s Laura Nelson Cookbook author leaves her mark on gastric cancer researchhttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/promise/1001/thumbnail.jp
The 2nd Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge (ASVspoof 2017) Database
No full textThis is a database used for the Second Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasuers Challenge, for short, ASVspoof 2017 (http://www.asvspoof.org) organized by Tomi Kinnunen, Md Sahidullah, Héctor Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans, Junichi Yamagishi, Kong Aik Lee in 2017. The ASVspoof challenge aims to encourage further progress through (i) the collection and distribution of a standard dataset with varying spoofing attacks implemented with multiple, diverse algorithms and (ii) a series of competitive evaluations for automatic speaker verification. The ASVspoof 2017 challenge follows on from two special sessions on spoofing and countermeasures for automatic speaker verification held during INTERSPEECH 2013 and 2015.Kinnunen, Tomi; Sahidullah, Md; Delgado, Héctor; Todisco, Massimiliano; Evans, Nicholas; Yamagishi, Junichi; Lee, Kong Aik. (2018). The 2nd Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge (ASVspoof 2017) Database, Version 2, [sound]. University of Edinburgh. The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR). http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/ds/2332
Chapter 09: Creating a New Way of Conducting Research and Caring for Patients in a Changing Environment
No full textIn this chapter, Dr. Dmitrovsky provides an overview of how MD Anderson must operate in the new environment of research and healthcare economics. He begins by explaining that scientific endeavors traditionally rely on decisive discoveries by individual investigators that also reveal opportunities to development treatments. Today, he says, this process moves ahead via team- and interdisciplinary science, and the institution must educate the next generations of researchers in this way of conducting research. At the same time, MD Anderson must operate in a context of a flat NIH budget while responding to the new economics of the Affordable Care Act. Next, he notes that MD Anderson is supporting the education of the next generation by making investments in junior faculty with the R. Lee Clark Fellowship Program. He explains the award (juried by experts outside of MD Anderson). Next Dr. Dmitrovsky notes that reductions are being made to the length and complexity of informed consent forms so faculty can spend less time on paperwork and more time for their primary activities. He then speaks briefly about faculty recruitment and retention efforts. Then Dr. Dmitrovsky talks about strategies used to encourage interdisciplinary investigation. He speaks in detail about finding ways to provide team members with proper recognition for their contributions (when contribution is traditionally measured by first or last author status) and linking credit to faculty promotion. He also talks about empowering team members to initiate investigations and provides some examples.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1641/thumbnail.jp
Chapter 09: Strengthening Biomedical Editing Nationwide and Within MD Anderson
No full textIn this Chapter, first briefly notes his involvement with the Southwest Chapter of the American Medical Writer’s Association and the Council of Biology Editors (with a 22-year membership). He then explains that he had his biggest impact while he served on the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences and in the late 80s worked on the Editorial Certification Examination Development Committee. He describes the examination he helped create to certify competence for editors of biomedical articles and explains the significance of certification. He notes that the Department of Scientific Publications at MD Anderson uses its own battery of tests to evaluate editors’ abilities for abstract reasoning, grammar, and other skills and talents.
Next, Mr. Pagel talks about his Department’s blog, “The Write Stuff,” and two significant projects: his role on the Historical Resources Center Steering Committee, and the development of panel discussions for the Department of Scientific Publications. To begin the discussion of the Steering Committee, he notes that Scientific Publications wrote The First Twenty Years, the first history of MD Anderson. Because of this association with the institution’s history, Mr. Pagel was asked to be part of the Steering Committee when the Historical Resources Center was formed and set as its first goal the publication of an updated institutional history. Mr. Pagel wanted the perspective to be broader than the first book, situating MD Anderson and cancer research in a larger context of other cancer institutions and the history of cancer research. Though not alone in holding this view, he says he had something to do with articulating it for the benefit of the Steering Committee. He describes how James Olsen was selected to be the author and notes other Steering Committee activities.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/2275/thumbnail.jp
Integrated spoofing countermeasures and automatic speaker verification: an evaluation on ASVspoof 2015
No full textE. Harold Shryock, MD
No full textA teacher of the ages, administrator, author, lecturer, ambidextrous artist, trick cyclist, Chair of the Department of Anatomy, and Dean of the School of Medicine of Loma Linda University.All descriptions are taken verbatim from: Portraits of Honored Faculty by S. Wesley Kime, MD. Editor Raymond Herber, MD. (Loma Linda, Calif.: Alumni Association of School of Medicine of Loma Linda University, 2005) and are thus not up-to-date as to positions held or contributions made to Loma Linda University Health
Chapter 09: Reflections on Dr. Clifton Mountain and Data Collection Roles at MD Anderson
No full textMrs. Hermes begins this chapter with memories of how much she enjoyed working for Dr. Mountain over the course of 25 years. He taught her how to think about data, she explains, and she was listed as an author on a number of publications on lung cancer [see examples below]. She explains that Dr. Mountain left MD Anderson in 1993, but she continued to work freelance for him. She recalls that he set up the first conference on mathematics at MD Anderson, early in his career sometime in the sixties.
Next she comments on how the unique openness of Houston culture fit well with the bold visions that both R. Lee Clark and Eleanor MacDonald held for oncology. She says that her most important work was on Dr. Mountain’s staging system for lung cancer and she explains why staging the disease presented challenges.
She confirms that she was always interested in the implications of basic research for clinical findings. She credits Eleanor MacDonald for helping her to develop her curiosity and questioning style.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/2036/thumbnail.jp
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