OBJECTIVE To provide formulas for estimating notifiable disease reporting volume from 'meaningful use' electronic laboratory reporting (ELR). METHODS We analyzed two years of comprehensive ELR reporting data from 15 metropolitan hospitals and laboratories. Report volumes were divided by population counts to derive generalizable estimators. RESULTS Observed volume of notifiable disease repor...

Articulation errors will seriously reduce speech intelligibility and the ease of spoken communication. Typically, a speech-language pathologist uses his or her clinical experience to identify articulation error patterns, a time-consuming and expensive process. Moreover, the language training is very difficult to articulation disorders for personal training procedure. In this paper, a system wit...

Objectives: The present research aims to study the normal development of Percentage of Consonant Correct (PCC) in Kurdish-speaking children, with Middle Kurmanji-Mukryani Dialect as an Articulation Competency Index (ACI). PCC was examined in terms of the manner of articulation and position of sound in the word.  Methods: In this descriptoanalytical cross-sectional study, 120 Kurdish-speak...

In the present study, we report on a series of coding schemes to classify errors in open-set recognition of speech and environmental sounds from previous perceptual learning experiments with cochlear implant simulations (Loebach and Pisoni, 2007; in press). Open-set responses to MRT and PB words were coded for place of articulation, manner of articulation and voicing errors in the identificatio...

In this study, we examined how learners developed scientific explanations about light with the assistance of various technology-based scaffolds. The study emphasis was on scaffolding processes of reflection and articulation. We used a content-neutral software program (Progress Portfolio) to create the instructional scaffolds. A qualitative research design was used to investigate two pairs of pr...

This paper proposes a reconsideration of the interpretative role of the performer. Such a role involve the articulation of i) the composer's intentions, ii) the meaningful content of the musical structure by itself regardless composer's intentions, and iii) the performer's originality and creativity. Two eminent performances of the Prelude in B minor Op. 28 N. 6 by Chopin were analysed in terms...

Through this paper we theorize on the nature and effects of articulation work relative to the takeup and uses of information and communications technologies (ICT). Articulation work is “work that enables other work:” that which links people, processes and technologies within organizations. Articulation work in organizations is both common and too-often invisible from a managerial or budgetary p...

We often describe lives (or parts of lives) as meaningful or as not meaningful. It is also common to characterize them as more or less meaningful. Some lives, we tend to think, are more meaningful than others. But how then can one compare lives with respect to how much meaning they contain? Can one? This paper argues that (i) only a notion of rough equality can be used when comparing different ...

In a recent article, Gorik Ooms has drawn attention to the normative underpinnings of the politics of global health. We claim that Ooms is indirectly submitting to a liberal conception of politics by framing the politics of global health as a question of individual morality. Drawing on the theoretical works of Chantal Mouffe, we introduce a conflictual concept of the political as an alternative...