background: pain is one of the side effects of episiotomy. the virtual reality (vr) is a non-pharmacological method for pain relief. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using video glasses on pain reduction in primiparity women during episiotomy repair. methods: this clinical trial was conducted on 30 primiparous parturient women having labor at omolbanin hospital (mashhad,...

We describe a new video interface based on a recorded personal navigation history which provides simple mechanisms to quickly find and watch previously viewed intervals, highlight segments of video the user found interesting and support other video tasks such as crowd-sourced video popularity measures and consumer-level video editing. Our novel history interface lets users find previously viewe...

OBJECTIVE Reduced training time combined with no rigorous assessment for technical skills makes it difficult for trainees to monitor their competence. We have developed an objective bench-top assessment of technical skills at a level commensurate with a junior registrar in cardiac surgery. METHODS Forty cardiothoracic surgeons were recruited for the study, consisting of 12 junior trainees (ye...

As the problem of easily and quickly generating tele-lecturing content has been solved and many tele-lecturing projects have been set up, new issues arise. The search amongst the video content is a major problem. It takes a long time for users to lter through all the videos available until they nd the learning content they are looking for. This paper describes a concept for the set-up of a rati...

Subjective assessment of Quality of Experience in stereoscopic 3D requires new guidelines for the environmental setup as existing standards such as ITU-R BT.500 may no longer be appropriate. A first step is to perform cross-lab experiments in different viewing conditions on the same video sequences. Three international labs performed Absolute Category Rating studies on a freely available video ...

Abstract: Over the last few decades, several aspects of pragmatic knowledge and its effects on teaching  and  learning  a  second  language  (L2)  have  been  explored  in  many  studies.  However, among  various  studies,  the  area  of  interlanguage  pragmatic  (ILP)  assessment  is  quite  novel issue and many features of it have remained unnoticed. As ILP assessment has received more atten...

For many movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s and ataxia, disease progression is usually assessed visually by a clinician according to a numerical rating scale, or using questionaires. These tests are subjective, time-consuming, and must be administered by a professional. We present an automated method for quantifying the severity of motion impairment in patients with ataxia, using only vide...

BACKGROUND Dysphagia is common after stroke. Fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) is a powerful tool for dysphagia assessment. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a previously established endoscopic examination protocol based on the identification of typical findings indicative of stroke - related dysphagia may be learned and adopted by clinicians so far inexperienc...

few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. this study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. to this end, 60...