AIMS To examine the uptake of relevant hospital services by families with deaf children and to compare use of these services between Pakistani and white families. METHODS A total of 214 deaf children with amplification aids who attended their paediatric outpatient and school medical appointments from October 2000 to March 2003 were studied in an observational cohort study. RESULTS The demog...

The present work studies the use of Urduised words in the Pakistani English fiction. The present study is a corpus-based study and investigates the influence created through the Urduised words used in the Pakistani English drawing on the data from Pakistani English Fiction corpus (PEF) consisting of one million words . The influence of Urdu through Codeswitching has resulted in a lot of innovat...

Mechanical Turk is useful for generating complex speech resources like conversational speech transcription. In this work, we explore the next step of eliciting narrations of Wikipedia articles to improve accessibility for low-literacy users. This task proves a useful test-bed to implement qualitative vetting of workers based on difficult to define metrics like narrative quality. Working with th...

Mechanical Turk is useful for generating complex speech resources like conversational speech transcription. In this work, we explore the next step of eliciting narrations of Wikipedia articles to improve accessibility for low-literacy users. This task proves a useful test-bed to implement qualitative vetting of workers based on difficult to define metrics like narrative quality. Working with th...

Aim. The paper presents the study of narrations of schizophrenic patients focused on the description of activities characteristics. The aim is to answer the question of how experiencing of psychotic crisis influences the perception of their authorship. Do the inherent characteristics of the activity differ with reference to the period of life which they relate to: the time before getting sick, ...

AIM The paper presents the study of narrations of schizophrenic patients focused on the description of activities characteristics. The aim is to answer the question of how experiencing of psychotic crisis influences the perception of their authorship. Do the inherent characteristics of the activity differ with reference to the period of life which they relate to: the time before getting sick, o...

While the linked data paradigm has gathered much attention over the recent years, the domain of Islamic knowledge has yet to cache upon its full potential. The web-scale integration of Islamic texts and knowledge sources at large is currently not well facilitated. The two primary sources of the Islamic legislation are the Qur’an and the Hadith (collections of Prophetic Narrations) and form the ...