BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Inequity in the use of health care services is an important factor affecting the maternal and child survival. In southern Odisha, India, the health indicators remained below compared to the State and national average. This study identifies various equity issues at individual and community levels that influence women's choice affecting the utilization of maternal health s...

In the processes of mothertongue education Modern Turkey Turkish (MTT) and teaching MTT as a foreign/ second language, while grammar, sentential element that is called which out sentence makes problems causes confusion mental unclarity. The study’s purpose to offer various proposals recommend solutions for this subject, by handling showing these problems, unclarity, obviously. elements classifi...

Filled pauses are generally seen as disfluency. Showing that they can play a positive role in computer generated speech is the purpose of this paper. Details about the causes, variation in pronunciation and syntactic location are acquired through a corpus analysis. This knowledge is then used in an experiment conducted to test positive effects of filled pauses in computer generated speech on li...

The signatures of the Dissertation Defense Committee signify completion and approval as to style and content of the Dissertation The signature of the Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences signifies that the student has met all graduation requirements of the school. iii iv DEDICATION for Kareem and Omar v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Craig Mello, without your patience this would not have been p...

In this paper, we discuss the possibilities and limitations of the PC-KIMMO system as a recognition device of compound formations in a language like Modern Greek, where compounding interacts with derivation, inflection and lexical phonology. We deal with the computational processing of nominal and verbal compounds and try to show certain limitations of the PCKIMMO software with respect to the p...

THE ADVANTAGES OF THE TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION can be seen and felt in virtually every arena of modern life. Computer microchips now organize the vital events occurring within the basic mechanisms of automobiles, children match their fingers’ reflexes, dance steps, and wits against virtual entities on video screens, and interactions with business colleagues, friends, and family occur electronicall...

Dictionary lookup is a computational activity that can be greatly accelerated when performed on large amounts of text by a parallel computer such as the Connection Machine T M Computer (CM). Several algorithms for parallel dictionary lookup are discussed, including one that allows the CM to lookup words at a rate 450 times that of lookup on a Symbolics 3600 Lisp Machine. 1 An Overv iew of the D...

The Journal of Clinical Investigation | January 2004 | Volume 113 | Number 2 At the First International Workshop on HIV Persistence During Therapy last month in the French West Indies, recently identified therapeutic targets were put under a magnifying glass. Roger Pomerantz of Thomas Jefferson University boldly opened the symposium with the statement that it would take “hubris to think we coul...

There is increasing evidence for a dependency on aldosterone in the development of hypertension.1 How aldosterone influences the physiology that determines blood pressure or for that matter promotes the pathophysiology of high blood pressure turns out to be less than straightforward. There is the genomic pathway that begins with the binding of aldosterone to the classical mineralocorticoid rece...