Study selection Studies were selected if they were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-experimental studies with contemporaneous data collection, involved qualified health professionals or post graduate trainees, examined the effect of planned educational activities, and objectively measured health professional practice behaviour or patient outcomes. Studies were excluded if allocation...

In this paper we describe a corpus set together from two sub/corpora. The CINEMO corpus contains acted emotional expression obtained by playing of dubbing exercises. This new protocol is a way to collect mood-induced data in large amount which show several complex and shaded emotions. JEMO is a corpus collected with an emotion-detection game and contains more prototypical emotions than CINEMO. ...

We propose using the predictability of human motion to eliminate the overhead of distributed location services in human-carried MANETs, dubbing the technique location profile routing. This method outperforms the Geographic Hashing Location Service when nodes change locations 2×more frequently than they initiate connections (e.g., start new TCP streams), as in applications like textand instant-m...

Disfluent speech synthesis is necessary in some applications such as automatic film dubbing or spoken translation. This paper presents a model for the generation of synthetic disfluent speech based on inserting each element of a disfluency in a context where they can be considered fluent. Prosody obtained by the application of standard techniques on these new sentences is used for the synthesis...

Educational and career guidance consists of various forms of support to individuals considering their educational and professional future. During the last five years various types of quasi-markets have been introduced in Sweden at all levels of the educational system. This paper presents some recent Swedish experiences of how publicly financed Internet portals are constructed and used as a mean...

The voice modification system studied in this paper allows to ’transplant’ selected voice characteristics (pitch, loudness, timing, and/or timbre) from a given ’donor’ utterance onto another (’patient’) utterance. Several potential applications exist for such a system, depending on the voice characteristics that are transplanted. The examples studied here are lip synchronization, voice dubbing ...