An apparatus for measuring brightness transmitted by a light-emitting display unit of a laser telescope and observed by the user’s eyes comprises a focusing unit, a sensor unit, a processing unit and a display unit. The surface finish of the member is chosen to help keep the components which it partly surrounds isothermal during operation. The terminal peptide segments of these TPEs are short and tend to from sheet type secondary structures through intermolecular hydrogen bonds, creating physical crosslinks between polymer chains. The method of the invention includes insertion of the collection tool through the introitus of the user’s vagina, digital positioning of the guide ring to encircle the user’s cervix, guiding a sampling tool to the cervix, wiping the cervix with the sampling tool to collect a tissue sample and removing the sampling tool and cervical guide from the user’s vagina. At least one of the microprocessor unit, the function unit, or the display controller unit may further include the described semiconductor package. The speech analyzing stage is part of an automatic speech recognition system and is adapted for analyzing in the spectral domain a speech signal sampled at one of at least two different system sampling rates.