Developing Professionally

Open Access... but Professionally

1 Content Open Access... but Professionally. OA journals need not be poor cousins of commercially published journals. Open Access has become a valid electronic publishing option for institutions that own academic journals. Many of them however still believe that because they offer their content at no cost for the reader they can publish their journals at no cost. As a result, most open access e...

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Professionally-produced Music Separation Guided by Covers

This paper addresses the problem of demixing professionally produced music, i.e., recovering the musical source signals that compose a (2-channel stereo) commercial mix signal. Inspired by previous studies using MIDI synthesized or hummed signals as external references, we propose to use the multitrack signals of a cover interpretation to guide the separation process with a relevant initializat...

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Visits to the Dentist to Receive Professionally Applied Topical Fluoride in a Developing Country

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and associated factors of visits to the dentist in the last year by Nicaraguan schoolchildren to receive professionally applied topical fluoride (PATF). MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was designed in children from public schools in the city of León, Nicaragua, were included. A series of socioeconomic, sociodemographic, and behavioural variabl...

How to Survive in Medicine: Personally and Professionally

Medicine is a career that most people consider to be enviable. Whatever one's criteria for a good job, being a doctor ticks a lot of boxes: doctors are needed, respected, well remunerated and can make a difference between life and death Increasingly, doctors are experiencing stress, depression and anxiety, fuelled by the increasing demands of the health services, and the lack of resources to su...