Background The inability to attract medical graduates to specialize in psychiatry has always been a serious challenge to psychiatry training programs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the attitude of medical students towards psychiatry. Methods A comparative cross-sectional survey was conducted among 122 fourth year medical students of Jimma University. The attitude of medical s...

BACKGROUND Although systematic reviews of health care interventions are an invaluable tool for health care providers and researchers, many potential authors never publish reviews. This study attempts to determine why some people with interest in performing systematic reviews do not subsequently publish a review; and what steps could possibly increase review completion. METHODS Cross-sectional...

We present an algorithmic framework for learning multiple related tasks. Our framework exploits a form of prior knowledge that relates the output spaces of these tasks. We present PAC learning results that analyze the conditions under which such learning is possible. We present results on learning a shallow parser and named-entity recognition system that exploits our framework, showing consiste...

BACKGROUND Since the tragic events experienced on September 11, 2001, and other recent events such as the hurricane devastation in the southeastern parts of the country and the emergent H1N1 season, the need for a competent public health workforce has become vitally important for securing and protecting the greater population. OBJECTIVE The primary objective of the study was to assess the tra...

The formation of cross-modal object representations was investigated using a novel paradigm that was previously successful in establishing unimodal visual category learning in monkeys and humans. The stimulus set consisted of six categories of bird shapes and sounds that were morphed to create different exemplars of each category. Subjects learned new cross-modal bird categories using a one-bac...

We consider methods for training a prosodic classifier using labeled training data from a different genre than the one on which the system will be deployed. Two binary tasks are considered: word-level pitch accent and phrase boundary detection. Using radio news and conversational telephone speech, we consider cross-genre training using acoustic and textual features, and find that acoustic featu...

When US soldiers are deployed to Iraq, their interactions with the local population are impacted by their understanding of complex cultural differences. Nonverbal cues play a major role in cross-cultural communication, as they vary among cultures by many culture-specific rules that govern certain aspects of behavior (Taylor, 2006). This study was intended to be an initial attempt to discover th...