An exhaust purification system provided with an exhaust manifold, a catalytic converter which is arranged at a downstream side of the exhaust manifold an angle with respect to the exhaust manifold and which houses an NOx storage and reduction catalyst, and a reducing agent feed system which feeds reducing agent into exhaust gas which passes through the inside of the exhaust manifold. A slider is formed with cam grooves to face the housing accommodating space, and a male housing is pulled to a connection position by a movement of the slider in a direction substantially normal to a connecting direction with cam pins of the male housing engaged with the cam grooves. A text string may be normalized and its native language determined for obtaining a target phoneme for providing human-sounding speech in a language that is familiar to a user. During decoding, memory usage is initially set according to the first settings. After the mean myocardial electrical impedance changes from the computed baseline value by at least the measured variance, the extent of change in the myocardial physiologic state is diagnosed as a continuous, smooth, function of the extent of change, or rate of change, of the periodically measured myocardial electrical impedance from the baseline value.