OBJECTIVES This paper explores the use of evidence, focusing on economic evidence in particular, in the development of local health policies through an in-depth study of Health Improvement Programmes (HImPs) in England. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to the person responsible for coordinating the development of the HImP in each of the 102 English health authorities. In addition, semi-struct...

A computerized patient interview has been developed at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to supplement or replace the paper questionnaire given to patients before an outpatient visit.' The interview was designed to obtain an overview of the patient's clinical condition in approximately 30 minutes of the patient's time. This demonstration will show our redesign and implementation of the i...

japan, known as a pro-choice country in terms of abortion, is currently facing the increase of “selective abortions” thanks to new prenatal screening. efforts to restrict proliferation of new technology has not been successful and it is likely that japan will turn pro-life by strictly enforcing the maternity protection act (mpa), which prohibits abortions due to “fetal cause”.

BACKGROUND The morning tends to be the most difficult time of day for many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) when symptoms can limit one's ability to perform even simple activities. Morning symptoms have been linked to higher levels of work absenteeism, thereby increasing the already substantial economic burden associated with COPD. A validated patient-reported outcome ...

A data-driven formant-type TTS system is proposed. The formanttype speech synthesizer is one of the most promising architectures to enable flexible control of various voice qualities. By applying the ARX-based speech analysis method, source and formant parameters are automatically obtained. It is shown that a TTS system can be built by using the parameters, without requiring any heuristic rules...

Esta breve nota es un documento de trabajo que podría servir base para, desarrolar aportes el instituto pro gobernabilidad la educación peruana (igepe) entregar, en forma ad honorem, al nuevo gobierno.

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

This paper examines two facial composite systems that present multiple faces during construction to more closely resemble natural face processing. We evaluated a ‘parallel’ version of PRO-fit, which presents facial features in sets of six or twelve, and EvoFIT, a system in development, that contains a holistic face model and an evolutionary interface. The PRO-fit parallel interface turned out n...