BACKGROUND The understanding of the complex relationship between the home environment, well-being and daily functioning in the third age is currently weak. The aim of this paper is to present the methodological background of the Home and Health in the Third Age Study, and describe a sample of men and women in relation to their home and health situation. METHODS AND DESIGN The study sample inc...

The focus of this paper is to formulate an approach to merging phonemes across languages and to evaluate the resulting crosslanguage merged speech units on the basis of the traditional acousticphonetic descriptions of the phonemes. The methodology is based on the belief that some phonemes across a set of languages may be similar enough to be equated, contrasting traditional phonology which trea...

Objective: Workload is a multidimensional and complex concept that determines the nurse's performance quality of care. In this study; it was aimed to determine how workload nurses working in internal surgical clinics A1 training research hospitals distributed between direct care indirect practices, much time allocated which practices form basis for relevant clinical nurse employment according o...

We present a new tree based approach to composing expressive image descriptions that makes use of naturally occuring web images with captions. We investigate two related tasks: image caption generalization and generation, where the former is an optional subtask of the latter. The high-level idea of our approach is to harvest expressive phrases (as tree fragments) from existing image description...

AIMS Evaluating the public health impact of regulatory interventions is important but there is currently no common methodological approach to guide this evaluation. This systematic review provides a descriptive overview of the analytical methods for impact research. METHODS We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE for articles with an empirical analysis evaluating the impact of European Union or non-Eu...