This paper studies the concept of “digital energy”, its own unique content, or maybe is it just a fashionable designation for what has been done in industry since massive spread computer technology. Why use neologism “digitalization” instead well-known and well-defined term “automation”? Some sources insist on having content terms energy” “digitalization”. post sets out our working hypothesis –...

We are interested in multimodal systems that use the following modes and modalities: speech (and natural language) as input as well as output, gesture as input and visual as output using screen displays. The user exchanges with the system by gesture and/or oral statements in natural language. This exchange, encoded in the different modalities, carries the goal of the user and also the designati...

With vast improvements in healthcare in recent decades, people are living longer but often with higher rates of morbidity and chronic illnesses. This has resulted in a higher proportion of the population who may benefit from early end-of-life 'conversation and planning', but also gives healthcare professionals more time during which these discussions are relevant, as people live longer with the...

Students, faculty and sta ff gath­ ered on Fieldhou.se Mall Monday as part of a sexuality and gender rally that supporters said was designed to foster a “ safe space” at Notre Dame. The "Speak Out! Sexuality and Gender at Notre Dame” forum was the " f ir s t o f its k in d " at the U n ive rs ity , sen io r Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) member and organizer Curtis Leighton said. “We knew w...

BACKGROUND One consequence of the shifting economic health care landscape is the growing trend of physician employment and practice acquisition by hospitals. These acquired practices are often converted into hospital- or provider-based clinics. This designation brings the increased services of the hospital, the accreditation of the hospital, and a new billing structure verses the private clinic...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Organized stroke systems of care include Primary Stroke Center (PSC) certification and preferential emergency medical services (EMS) routing of suspected patients with stroke to designated PSCs. Stroke EMS routing is not nationally governed; in California, routing is determined by county. EMS routing policies might provide an incentive for PSC accreditation. We evaluated ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the morphological characteristics of renal tumors which affect the surgeons' decision-making for the selection of open or laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. We included 147 patients who underwent partial nephrectomy for renal masses with elective indications in this study. Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) and open partial nephrectomy (OPN) were p...

As white-collar employees are more concerned and value the job's intrinsic aspects, this study concentrated on motivation of employees. This was dedicated to measuring general status different groups gender, age, education, experience, designation. Moreover, whether there differences in between among various terms their demography (i.e., designation). Data were collected working Nepalese insura...

The article studies the problem of comprehensibility modern legal language Russian Federation from point view an ordinary citizen. authors define a concept law linguistic level and summarize existing theories concerning adaptation. Two technical methods addressing to federal executive bodies are discussed compared. It is highlighted that imperfection texts within aspect directly related uncerta...