BACKGROUND Adherence to an antiretroviral regimen is imperative for treatment success in both HIV infected adults and children. Likewise, adherence to antiretroviral prophylaxis is critical in HIV prevention. Studies on pediatric adherence are limited, particularly the prophylactic use of antiretroviral drugs and treatment adherence in very young infants. The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN...

A scheme for building a decision model of short-term liquidity analysis from domain experts is presented, which combines the features of both process tracing approach and output analysis approach. The scheme consists of process tracing, output analysis, and model review component. The process tracing component applies the Concurrent Verbal Protocol Analysis to build an initial decision model by...

This paper presents the process of translation and cultural adaptation into Portuguese of the McGill Illness Narrative Interview - MINI, an interview protocol that is used to research meanings and modes of narrating illness experiences, tested, in the Brazilian context, for psychiatric and cancer-related problems. Two translations and their respective back-translations were developed. In additi...

A major barrier to the development of accurate and realistic models of human emotions is the absence of multi-cultural / multilingual databases of real-life behaviours and of a federative and reliable annotation protocol. QUB and LIMSI teams are working towards the definition of an integrated coding scheme combining their complementary approaches. This multilevel integrated scheme combines the ...

The Wizard-of-Oz (WOz) method is a common experimental technique in virtual agent and human-robot dialogue research for eliciting natural communicative behavior from human partners when full autonomy is not yet possible. For the first phase of our research reported here, wizards play the role of dialogue manager, acting as a robot’s dialogue processing. We describe a novel step within WOz metho...

The Verifiability Approach (VA) is a verbal veracity tool that assumes truth tellers provide more details can be verified and obtain higher ratio of such (verifiable details/total details) than liars. A VA meta-analysis was conducted. Results showed reported verifiable liars ( k = 20, N 1532, g 0.42). effect moderated by the presence information protocol nature statement (event-related or not)....