OBJECTIF: Il est démontré que la santé est principalement le fruit de ses déterminants sociaux, et comme de fait, la recherche sur les systèmes de santé montre que les dépenses publiques relatives aux programmes sociaux sont souvent plus fortement corrélées à la santé d...

Already well documented for hearing children, schooling's effects on early literacy skills for young students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) were examined for the first time in the present study. Piecewise growth curve modeling was used to describe 3-, 4-, and 5-...

After publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in the author name of Marlene Janzen Le Ber. The given name and family name were erroneously transposed.

Sentence embedding is an important research topic in natural language processing (NLP) since it can transfer knowledge to downstream tasks. Meanwhile, a contextualized word representation, called BERT, achieves the state-of-the-art performance in quite a few NLP tasks. ...

Sparse multi-zone sound reproduction provides multiple users a personalized sound experience. The primary objective of these methods is to minimize the reproduction error in the zones of interest along with the simultaneous reduction in the number of active of loudspeak...

Purpose/objective Health care providers' attitudes of marginalized groups can be key factors that contribute to health care access and outcome disparities because of their influence on patient encounters as well as clinical decision-making. Despite a growing body of kno...

Background Recent data suggest a significant increase in use of opioids among pregnant women. In the United States, reported rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome increased from 1.5 per 1,000 to 6.0 per 1,000 live births from 2000 to 2013. Use of opioids, both pharmacol...

Introduction La sclerose en plaques (SEP) est une maladie chronique du jeune adulte affectant 100 000 personnes en France et entrainant une consommation de soins importante. L’ouverture recente des bases medico-administratives de l’Assurance maladie aux chercheurs, tell...

An Electroencephalography (EEG) data acquisition system based on FPGA Zedboard (Diligent, USA) has been implemented using ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) front-end ADS1299FE (Texas Instrument, USA). The EEG instrument is a device used to measure the electrical brain a...

Resumen: El estudio tuvo como objetivo revisar las propiedades psicométricas de la versión del Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) adaptado al portugués, para su uso en el contexto brasileño. Se realizó un estudio transversal observacional, en un hospital...

La alfabetización en salud es el proceso centrado en la obtención del conocimiento, la motivación y las competencias individuales para entender y acceder a información, expresar opiniones y tomar decisiones relacionadas con la promoción y el mantenimiento de la salud, l...

De NHG-Standaard Urineweginfecties is herzien. In deze herziening is de indeling van urineweginfecties gewijzigd. Daarnaast is het diagnostische stroomschema vereenvoudigd. Ook is vanwege antibioticaresistentie en bijwerkingen het medicamenteus beleid voor sommige patie...

This paper is concerned with the reduplication in Chinese, especially the reduplicated form of classifiers. Generally, classifiers are to fulfill its syntactic function for nouns rather than lexical function. And individual classifiers can't function as main sentence co...

In this paper, a Duration Normalization algorithm is presented based on feature space trajectory to improve the accuracy in pathological speech recognition. In this method, speech MFCC features are divided into K segments dynamically, then the intra-segment mean values ...

The health and economic consequences of COVID-19 will be devastatingly widespread, but the populations that will suffer most are those who have experienced longstanding health disparities. For exam...

Poster: "18th ICID / UMP.089 / Implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Adult Intensive Care Units and General Wards at Argentinean Hospitals: The PROA Project" by: "R. Quiros1, M. Cabral2, R. Bertuzzi3, J. P. Caeiro3, V. RODRIGUEZ4, M. Pfoh5, A. Vila2, D...

AbstractAn N95 respirator ultraviolet germicidal irradiation and reuse program was rapidly implemented at an academic health system in the United States during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. This process continues to be a safe and effective way to slow the consu...

Palliative care (PC) is a national and global priority, yet there is insufficient knowledge regarding PC among generalist clinicians. An interdisciplinary educational initiative was implemented to enhance a hospital workforce's PC knowledge and skills. More than 1000 cl...

Quality health care is a fundamental human right, which is enshrined in several international and domestic legislative instruments. In the Ghanaian context, there are reports that adults with disabilities encounter barriers in their attempts to access health care. Howev...

Objetivo: analisar as representações sociais de pessoas em sorodiferença ao HIV elaboradas por profissionais de saúde. Método: estudo descritivo, ancorado na vertente estrutural das Representações Sociais. O local de realização do estudo serão três Unidades de Assistênc...

Objective: Despite preserved metabolic function, metabolically healthy obesity may increase the risk of subclinical atherosclerosis. Given the high prevalence of cardiometabolic diseases in individuals with spinal cord injury, the aim of this study was to investigate th...

Background: Racism is a pervasive experience in the life of Aboriginal Australians that begins in childhood. As a psychosocial stressor, racism compromises wellbeing and impacts developmental trajectories. The purpose of the present study was to estimate the effect of r...

Objective The psychological and emotional impact of a traumatic birth experience on clinicians is well-established. It is also known that emotions can generally influence decisions. However, it is not clear whether experiencing a birth trauma can affect the professional...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the determinants of embedded implementation research (EIR) conduct in seven Latin American and Caribbean countries. METHODS: This qualitative interpretative study conducted and analyzed 14 semi-structured interviews based on a grounded theory approa...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate acceptability and impact of infant massage video instruction on fathers' behaviors in early postpartum. Methods A randomized crossover design was used. Participants were fathers of healthy term infants born at a Magnet h...

Database management systems are used to store the data and to perform various operations on the data such as insertion, deletion and updation which is stored on the databases. To access the data from the databases, it is required to use a structured query language which...

OBJECTIVES: To explore symptom clusters during proton beam therapy in patients with primary brain tumors and investigate associations among symptom clusters, demographic variables, and comorbidity ...

To compare the cost-effectiveness of a multimodal back exercise programme for non-specific back pain with that of standard treatment. Medical costs were measured in euros (EUR) and effectiveness was measured using Graded Chronic Pain Status (GCPS). A controlled multicen...

Resumo Após a entrada em vigor do Acordo sobre Direitos de Propriedade Intelectual relacionados ao Comércio (Trips), o Brasil, assim como outros países em desenvolvimento, se tornou mais assertivo nas negociações multilaterais e passou a defender que o atual sistema int...

Oncologische nacontroles en nazorg vinden gewoonlijk in de tweede lijn plaats. Door hun persoonsgerichte werkwijze zouden huisartsen in sommige opzichten een verbetering in de kwaliteit van nazorg kunnen geven. Uit ons onderzoek bleken eerste- en tweedelijnszorg vergeli...

From a statistical perspective, the conventional minimum mean squared error (MMSE) criterion can be considered as the maximum likelihood (ML) solution under an assumed homoscedastic Gaussian error model. However, in this paper, a statistical analysis reveals the super-G...

Indirect measures of cognition have become an important tool in research on addiction. To date, however, no research has examined whether indirect measures of parent attachment relate to substance use. To examine this issue, a sample of college students (N = 121) was as...

In promoting healthier built environments, attention worldwide has focused largely on streetscapes and recreational spaces, with less regard given to housing form, in particular to the health effects of communal housing. Research demonstrates that communal housing model...

The article focuses on the presidential election which may be the most important of modern times Topics discussed include the numbers show a dismal accounting of the failure of the richest country in the world to protect its populace;and according to the Johns Hopkins C...

Standardized tests are an important tool in education. During the test preparation process, the difficulty of each test item needs to be defined, which previously relied on expert validation or pretest for the most part, requiring a considerable amount of labor and cost...

AbstractWe conducted a 6-year retrospective analysis of monitoring of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in a large hospital in a low CPE incidence area, and we evaluated the “search and isolate” strategy implemented. In total, 40 CPE isolates were collect...

Polyfarmacie, langdurig gebruik van vijf of meer medicijnen tegelijk, komt veel voor bij mensen met een verstandelijke beperking. Polyfarmacie kan bij hen al op relatief jonge leeftijd tot problemen leiden. Huisartsen komen echter zelden toe aan een systematische medica...