background patient-controlled analgesia is used for both labor and postoperative analgesia. objectives this study aimed to assess user satisfaction and functionality of two ambulatory, electronic patient controlled analgesia devices, the gemstar pump hospira inc., illinois, usa) and the ambit ambulatory infusion therapy pump (sorenson medical products, utah, usa). patients and methods it was a ...

background & aim : ventilator associated pneumonia (vap) is the most common infections in critical care units, which leads to more length of hospital stay, costs, and high mortality. therefore, prevention is a priority according to clinical guidelines. the aim of this study is determine the effects of passive versus active implementation of vap guidelines on nurses’ performance in critical care...

Multi-representation reasoning processes often show a variety of reasoning paths that can be followed. To analyse such reasoning processes with special attention for differences between individuals, it is required (1) to obtain an overview of the variety of possibilities and (2) to address navigation and control within the reasoning process. This paper presents a simulation model and analysis f...

This paper presents ProphetMT, a tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language (CL) authoring and post-editing tool. ProphetMT employs the source-side rules in a translation model and provides them as auto-suggestions to users. Accordingly, one might say that users are writing in a ‘Controlled Language’ that is ‘understood’ by the computer. ProphetMT also allows users to easily attach structural in...

The author describes a conceptual study towards mapping grounded natural language discourse representation structures to instances of controlled language statements. This can be achieved via a pipeline of preexisting state of the art technologies, namely natural language syntax to semantic discourse mapping, and a reduction of the latter to controlled language discourse, given a set of previous...

The objective of the study reported on here is to further examine the implications of recent research concerning the status of duration in boundary signaling in languages in which duration plays a contrastive role in the suprasegmental system. The issues addressed here are (i) the extent to which durational patterns in the temporal organization of connected speech differ from those observed in ...

We present a method for annotating gene products in the literature automatically with the terms of Gene Ontology (GO), which provides a dynamic but controlled vocabulary. Although GO is well-organized with such lexical relations as synonymy, ‘is-a’, and ‘partof’ relations among its terms, GO terms show quite a high degree of morphological and syntactic variations in the literature. As opposed t...

This study presents an overview of IS&LS thematic trends in Portugal between 2001 and 2012. The results were obtained by means of an analysis, using expeditious qualitative and quantitative techniques, of the bibliographic records of proceedings papers identified during this period. These records were processed using two techniques: a manual subject classification and an automated co-word analy...