Keyword spotting (KWS) plays a crucial role in human–machine interactions involving smart devices. In recent years, temporal convolutional networks (TCNs) have performed outstandingly with less computational complexity, comparison classical neural network (CNN) methods. However, it remains challenging to achieve trade-off between small-footprint model and high accuracy for the edge deployment o...

A recently issued report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in the United States on the Future of Nursing included a recommendation that nurses should receive leadership development at every level in order to transform the healthcare system. Charge nurses, at the frontline of patient care in acute care settings, are in key positions to lead this change. This paper presents findings from resea...

LAWSUITS AGAINST HOSPITALS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE entities alleging liability for patient harms are brought and settled routinely in the United States. However, the settlement by health care giant Tenet Healthcare, on the eve of trial on March 23, 2011, in Preston v Tenet Healthsystem Memorial Medical Center, falls outside the norm of routine entity liability cases. The class of plaintiffs in Ne...

This paper draws on Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) theory (Coase, 1937; Williamson, 1985, 1988, 1999) to examine hotel outsourcing. The study focuses on the uncertainty and frequency attributes, two of three activity attributes that TCE theorists see as affecting the propensity to outsource. Findings relating to the third TCE activity attribute, asset specificity, are reported in Lamminmaki (...

Under what conditions can we expect Piketty’s main two tenets to be right, namely that r > g and that β is high and might rise further? What do these conditions imply for growth and the distribution of income between capital and labor? The first tenet r > g states that the real rate of return on physical capital exceeds the economy-wide growth rate of output. The second tenet holds that the cap...

In this issue of Neuron, Sara et al. find that spontaneously released miniature synaptic potentials arise from a pool of vesicles distinct from those released by neural activity. This modification of a basic tenet of the quantal hypothesis has important implications for the analysis of changes in synaptic transmission.

Owing to an increasing focus on the rising cost of medical care in the United States, bending the cost curve has become the central tenet of healthcare reform. The exact definition of this phrase, however, remains elusive. In order to affect change in the cost and quality of healthcare, the importance of comparative effectiveness research must be recognized.

Although the physical separation of transcription in the nucleus and translation in the cytoplasm has presided as a fundamental tenet of cell biology for decades, it has not done so without recurring challenges and contentious debate. In this issue, David et al. (2012. J. Cell Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201112145) rekindle the controversy by providing convincing experimental evidence f...