IntroductionSpeaker diarization is an essential preprocessing step for diagnosing cognitive impairments from speech-based Montreal cognitive assessments (MoCA).MethodsThis paper proposes three enhancements to the conventional speaker diarization methods for such assessments.The enhancements tackle the challenges of diarizing MoCA recordings on two
To define appropriate planning scenarios for future pandemics of respiratory pathogens, it is important to understand the initial transmission dynamics of COVID-19 during 2020.Here, we fit an age-stratified compartmental model with a flexible underlying transmission term to daily COVID-19 death data from states in the contiguous U.S.and to national
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