Kurzweil Applied Intelligence received a research grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program to develop a prototype voice-enabled, structured medical reporting system. In typical usage, the physician dictates to the system, which then uses automatic speech recognition and medical knowledge bases to produce a structured report. This report ca...

Immunizations against most vaccine-preventable diseases will be needed indefinitely unless the disease is eradicated. Public acceptance of immunizations may be threatened as vaccine coverage increases and disease decreases, however, due to the increase in both causally and coincidentally related vaccine adverse events. The post-marketing surveillance for such events in the USA in response to th...

The paper presents the guidelines and the features of ARS, a project focused on the application of advanced methods and technologies for improving road accident data collection. In the first part of the paper, the most common types of accident reporting errors are described. Then the costs and benefits associated with some potential strategies to improve the data collection are compared. The AR...

The basis of all of the ‘international’ codes is a recognition of the diversity of mineral deposits, the types of data available, and the economic factors which are to be applied. They place ultimate responsibility for reports on a competent person or qualified person, whose professional judgment in applying the codes is the principal determinant in the figures which are presented. The reportin...

Each and every day in the U.S., more than 160 people die as a result of violence due to homicides and suicides.1 These violent deaths constitute an urgent public health problem. Homicide and suicide, taken together, were the fourth leading cause of years of potential life lost in the U.S. in 2014.2 Each year, more than 55,000 people die in the U.S. as a result of violence-related injuries.3 In ...

Crime is part of human activities and needs to be managed. No human society has ever been totally free of deviants and it is unlikely that society will ever be. The more populated and complex a society becomes the wider the range of antisocial conducts that must be controlled by the government through the armed forces and other agencies especially the Police Force. The incident-based system rep...