The Fourth International Social Security Association (ISSA) Meeting of Directors of Social Security Organizations in Asia and Pacific was held in Seoul from 9 to 11 November 2005 and was organized in cooperation with the National Health Insurance Corporation of the Republic of Korea. The Meeting was attended by 131 participants from 29 countries. Also at the Meeting were representatives from th...

In this paper we introduce the SpeakCorrect system which is a Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system for native Arabic students of English. The system is designed with optimized performance for the target users group. It is L1 dependent system and only the frequent pronunciation errors of native Arabic speakers are examined. Several adaptation techniques such as Speaker Adaptive Tr...

Ischemic stroke 224 Predictors of poor outcome despite recanalization: a multiple regression analysis of the NASA registry I Linfante, A K Starosciak, G R Walker, G Dabus, A C Castonguay, R Gupta, C-H J Sun, C Martin, W E Holloway, N Mueller-Kronast, J D English, T W Malisch, F A Marden, H Bozorgchami, A Xavier, A T Rai, M T Froehler, A Badruddin, T N Nguyen, M A Taqi, M G Abraham, V Janardhan,...

infections Widad Al-Nakib, FRCPath, FIDSA; Sahar Essa, BSc, MSc, PhD; Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Abdullah Owayed; Mousa Khadadah; Nasser Behbehani; Microbiology Department Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Paediatrics, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Medicine, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medici...

Introduction The accuracy of computed complex flows is hindered not only by the validity of the particular physical assumptions employed, but also by the accuracy of the numerical schemes used to discretize the set of governing partial differential equations. In order to reduce the inherent discretization errors present in all first-order solution procedures commonly employed these days, a nume...

Indian Academy of Social Sciences (ISSA) has resolved to devote the 31st session of Indian Social Science Congress (XXXI ISSC) on ‘Peoples’ Struggles And Movements For Equitable Society’ with a view to discovering, developing and disseminating a new scientific knowledge relevant to creating a new democratic global society free from hunger, poverty, literacy, unemployment and violence of any sor...

Boumber and Issa provide a useful review of the development of agents that target the epigenome—primarily DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) inhibitors and histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors. The authors provide a summary of agents approved for clinical use: the DNMT inhibitors azacitidine (Vidaza) and decitabine (Dacogen), and the HDAC inhibitors vorinostat (Zolinza) and romidepsin (Istodax). In ...

Recently Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis published an all-sky reddening map based on the COBE/DIRBE and IRAS/ISSA infrared sky surveys. Using the reddening map of Baade’s Window and sample of 19 low-latitude (|b| < 5 deg) Galactic globular clusters I find that the DIRBE/IRAS reddening map overestimates E(B − V ) at low galactic latitudes by a factor of ∼ 1.35. I also demonstrate the usefulness of ...