Predictions for Telehealth in 2020: Will This be the Takeoff Year?

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Will There Be New Emerging Countries in Africa by the Year 2020?

This paper summarizes results of a study on " Emerging Africa " , led within the framework of a research project for the OECD Development Centre, where both authors worked at the time of the project. Opinions expressed are the sole responsibility of the authors. Generous financial support from the Belgium and Swiss Governments is gratefully acknowledged.

Will this paper ever be cited?

It is an accepted fact of academic life that some papers, in whatever discipline and wherever published, will never be cited. Empirical support for this can be found in studies such as those reported by Glanzel (1992), Rousseau (1994), and Egghe (2000) where the distribution of the time of first citation is investigated. In all cases, it is assumed that never-citation is connected with the perc...

Another Agent for Obesity--Will This Time Be Different?

Over the past few decades, obesity has become a global epidemic that affects diverse societies across developed and developing countries. Obe­ sity rates correlate well with recent developments such as incessant enticements to sit and an un­ precedented availability, at low or no cost, of foods and beverages rich in poorly satiating calo­ ries. These rapid environmental changes interact with pr...

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This paper presents a framework of using Chinese speech to access images via English captions. The formulation and the structure mapping rules of Chinese and English named entities are extracted from an NICT foreign location name corpus. For a named location, name part and keyword part are usually transliterated and translated, respectively. Keyword spotting identifies the keyword from speech q...