Background: Women-headed households are more exposed to social damages than other women. Such condition remarkably influences the women's health-related life quality. The present study is aimed to investigate the effect of an educational intervention in quality of life of women-headed households under protection of Tehran Welfare Organization, in 2015. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study ...

This paper investigates whether the advanced Korean learners of standard Chinese produce Chinese with specific voice quality, and which voice quality parameters have significant difference. The study includes comparative analysis between the Korean and Chinese vowel /a/ for Korean speakers. It can be made certain by measuring voice quality parameters by means of EGG (electroglottalgraphy). The ...

Routine power quality (PQ) monitoring is limited to a statistical sample of sites that are hopefully representative of the overall PQ performance of the network. It would be helpful if the PQ performance of un-monitored sites could be inferred from the results of a PQ survey from a site having similar physical characteristics. This is only possible if it is known which physical characteristics ...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been proposed as a core competence to improve healthcare quality. The profile of EBP among respiratory therapists (RTs) has not been explored. We investigated how RTs in Taiwan perceive the implementation of EBP. METHODS We surveyed RTs in Taiwan's regional hospitals during a 4-month period in 2011. RESULTS A majority of RTs were aware of EBP (88...

This paper presents model-based assessment and forecasting of the Lithuanian education system in the period of 2001–2010. In order to obtain satisfactory forecasting results, constructing of models used for these aims should be grounded on some interactive data mining. Data mining of data stored in the system of the Lithuanian teacher’s database and of data from other sources representing the s...

In order to attract more and more customers, the price war between service providers (SPs) is becoming increasingly fierce. This kind of conflict situations has been analyzed and hugely studied by a plenty of works in the related literature. However unfortunately, almost all prior works neglect an important decision parameter, it is the promised quality of service which can be a serious advanta...

Cross-lingual sentiment classification aims to predict the sentiment orientation of a text in a language (named as the target language) with the help of the resources from another language (named as the source language). However, current cross-lingual performance is normally far away from satisfaction due to the huge difference in linguistic expression and social culture. In this paper, we sugg...

In this research we consider a processor that can operate at multiple speeds and suggest a strategy for optimal speed-scaling. While higher speeds improve latency, they also draw a lot of power. Thus we adopt a threshold-based policy that uses higher speeds under higher workload conditions, and vice versa. However, it is unclear how to select ”optimal” thresholds. For that we use a stochastic f...