BACKGROUND Missed injury is commonly used as a quality indicator in trauma care. The trauma tertiary survey (TTS) has been proposed to reduce missed injuries. However a systematic review assessing the effect of the TTS on missed injury rates in trauma patients found only observational studies, only suggesting a possible increase in early detection and reduction in missed injuries, with signific...

background: thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. several risk factors were found to play a role in thyroid cancer. the purpose of the study was to determine the risk factors for thyroid cancer, in babol, north of iran. method: 80 patients with thyroid cancer were selected as case group and 160 people living in the neighborhood of the patients as control group. risk factors in...

BACKGROUND The use of cuffed tracheal tubes (TTs) in small children is still controversial. The aim of this study was to compare post-extubation morbidity and TT exchange rates when using cuffed vs uncuffed tubes in small children. METHODS Patients aged from birth to 5 yr requiring general anaesthesia with TT intubation were included in 24 European paediatric anaesthesia centres. Patients wer...

Casey, Sarah, Audiology Doctoral Project, University of South Florida, July, 2003. Effects of Magnesium on Temporary Threshold Shift. Previous literature has demonstrated that supplemental magnesium may have a prophylactic effect on noise induced hearing loss (NIHL). The purpose of this study was to replicate the findings of a previous investigation concerning the beneficial effects of suppleme...

An auditory study was conducted to derive data on temporary threshold shift (TTS) induced by single impulses. This information should serve as basis for the definition of noise exposure criteria for harbor porpoises. The measurements of TTS were conducted on a harbor porpoise by measuring the auditory evoked potentials in response to amplitude-modulated sounds. After obtaining baseline hearing ...

The present paper reports on a novel way of increasing the modularity and pluggability of text-to-speech (TTS) architectures. In a proof-of-concept study, two current TTS systems, both using XML-based languages for internal data representation, are plugged together using XSLT transforms as a means of translating from one system’s internal representation to the other’s. This method allows one sy...

ABSTRACT: Given the increasing application of TTS synthesis in commercial and clinical settings, there is a need to develop methods of evaluation from the user’s perspective. An experiment is reported that compares the effect of two factors, voice gender and signal quality, on the intelligibility of three TTS systems from the user’s point of view. It was hypothesised that male voiced TTS would ...