BACKGROUND With increasing globalisation, the challenges of providing accessible and safe healthcare to all are great. Studies show that there are substantial numbers of people who are not fluent in English to a level where they can make best use of health services. We examined how health professionals manage language barriers in a consultation. METHODS AND FINDINGS This was a cross-sectional...

Article / Book Information 論題 Title Street Performance Robot Contest as Practice in Creativity Education 著者 遠藤 玄, 青木 岳史, 鈴木 秀昭, 福島 E. 文彦, 広瀬 茂男 Author Gen Endo, Takeshi Aoki, Hideaki Suzuki, Edwardo F. Fukushima, Shigeo Hirose 掲載誌/書名 , Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 768-777 Journal/Book name Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 768-777 発行日 / Issue date 2011, 10 Note Journal of Robotic...

past few years. In the most of current works, the researchers extract the features, such as melodies, rhythms and chords, from the music data and develop indices that will help to retrieve the relevant music quickly. Several reports have pointed out that these features of music can be transformed and represented in the forms of music feature strings or numeric values such that the indices can b...

The socioeconomic (SE) status is considered to be one of the most important health risk factors nowadays. A simple search showed that only in 2011, more than 1100 articles were cited in Pubmed about the relationship of health and SE status. However, there are many inquiries about this association. The SE status is a complex and multidimensional issue, and there is no gold standard method to mea...

Cooperation often fails to spread in proportion to its potential benefits. This phenomenon is captured by prisoner's dilemma games, in which cooperation rates appear to be determined by the distinctive structure of economic incentives (e.g., $3 for mutual cooperation vs. $5 for unilateral defection). Rather than comparing economic values of cooperating versus not ($3 vs. $5), we tested the hypo...

CONTEXT The Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) is commonly used to assess pain. Change in the NPRS across time can be interpreted with responsiveness indices. OBJECTIVE To determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of the NPRS. DESIGN Single-group repeated measures. SETTING Outpatient rehabilitation clinics. PATIENTS Patients with shoulder pain (N = 136). MAIN OUTCOME ...

The proposed adoption of 'scientific Globish' as a simplified language standard for scholarly communication may appeal to authors who have difficulty with English proficiency. However, Globish might not justify the hopes being pinned on it and might open the door to further deterioration of the quality of English-language scientific writing.

The concept of differential privacy has received considerable attention in the literature recently. In this paper we evaluate the masking mechanism based on Laplace noise addition to satisfy differential privacy. The results of this study indicate that the Laplace based noise addition procedure does not satisfy the requirements of differential privacy.

1. Abbasi‐Shavazi MJ. Recent changes and the future of fertility in Iran. In: United Nations Population Division, completing the fertility transition. Available from: http://www.un.org/ esa/population/publications/completingfertility/2RevisedA BBASIpaper.PDF [Last accessed on 2011 Oct 16]. 2. Abbasi‐Shavazi MJ, Mc‐Donald P, Hosseini‐Chavoshi M. In: The Fertility Transition in Iran; Revolution a...

For a variety of theoretical and practical reasons, dictation is a promising general procedure for promoting both conscious learning and subconscious acquisition of L2 grammatical structures. Although traditional dictation tends to be rather boring, the method allows a number of interesting and motivating variant techniques. This article describes four such variants, useful and effective dictat...