Citation: Totsika V, Mandair S and Lindsay G (2017) Comparing the Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Parenting Programs on Families of children with and without Special Educational Needs: Short-term and Long-term Gains. Front. Educ. 2:7. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00007 comparing the effectiveness of evidence-Based Parenting Programs on Families of children with and without special educational needs:...

Short-term dynamic psychotherapy is a group of well-researched brief treatments with over 50 published controlled trials testing its effectiveness against a range of treatment and nontreatment controls. Studied samples are often high users of medical services, hospital services, mental health services and disability insurance. If short-term dynamic psychotherapy is effective, it should translat...

AIMS Myocardial infarction networks have been shown to improve guideline adherent therapy and outcomes in patients presenting with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Our objective was to assess the short term cost effectiveness of a network structure. METHODS AND RESULTS Outcome data and reimbursement data for the index hospital stay were gathered in consecutive patients with a...

In this work a traditional MFCC based speaker verification system is combined with a prosody based one to determine whether simple short-term prosodic information is useful for improving current state-of-theart ASV. The traditional speaker verification system based in spectral information has an EER of 3.85% when using 1024 mixtures. The prosody based system uses short-term intonation and energ...

Two-generation programs are relatively new attempts to deal with the nation's social ills. In two-generation programs, services such as early childhood educational programs are offered to children to help them get the best possible start in life, while, at the same time, parents are offered training to help enhance their parenting skills, and education, literacy, or job training to help them be...

review and classification of electric load forecasting (lf) techniques based on artificial neuralnetworks (ann) is presented. a basic anns architectures used in lf reviewed. a wide range of annoriented applications for forecasting are given in the literature. these are classified into five groups:(1) anns in short-term lf, (2) anns in mid-term lf, (3) anns in long-term lf, (4) hybrid anns inlf,...