methods and instruments for neurobehavioral evaluation and research

... endoscopic and imaging methods and the standardized perceptual evaluation of the individual handicap ASR will enable precise evaluations of speech and voice as a precondition for scientific purposes, for ... the formants and their range may be affected Sumita et al showed that the first formant (F1) is higher in the vowel /i/, and the second formant (F2) is lower in vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/ ... system for the automatic evaluation of voice and speech disorders,” Speech Communication, vol 51, no 5, pp 425–437, 2009 R Levesque, SPSS Programming and Data Management: A Guide for SPSS and SAS...

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... compensate for barriers These limitations associated with the methods that are currently applied in implementation research have revealed the need for an alternative research methodology for the evaluation ... implementation research For us, this is a strong motivation to introduce DCE in implementation research If DCE proves to have a complementary value for the evaluation of barriers and facilitators, ... involved in implementation processes and hence users of the results and responsible for getting the research findings into practice Therefore, we asked respondents for their opinions about the feasibility...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... compensate for barriers These limitations associated with the methods that are currently applied in implementation research have revealed the need for an alternative research methodology for the evaluation ... implementation research For us, this is a strong motivation to introduce DCE in implementation research If DCE proves to have a complementary value for the evaluation of barriers and facilitators, ... involved in implementation processes and hence users of the results and responsible for getting the research findings into practice Therefore, we asked respondents for their opinions about the feasibility...

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... Introduction The modern information technology consists of three parts: information acquiring, information processing, information transferring and information storage In fact, information storage technology ... Yufei, and so on, for providing friendship and companionship through those happy and sad time Last but not least, I would like to thank my parents and my brother, who always encourage me and support ... CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK 106 REFERENCE 109 v Summary The developing information technology and growing requirement for massive data storage have demanded economical, reliable, rapidly accessible and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 22:15

... in the companies In Finland, Honko and Virtanen (1975), Virtanen (1984), and most recently Keloharju and Puttonen (1995) have surveyed the investment evaluation criteria and planning horizon of ... discounted cash flow analysis INVESTMENT EVALUATION METHODS AND methods has developed during the last three decades, and how the current situation in Finland compares with other countries Third, ... the other hand, among other things, ignores the time value of money, and cash flows beyond the cutoff date, and can lead to inferior investment decisions INVESTMENT EVALUATION METHODS AND FIGURE...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:08

... statistical treatments for practical work and for structured questions on research examples, but also for dealing with general issues of scientific and research methods Higher education students, too, ... later and more easily available text with a chapter on the issue Campbell, D T and Stanley, J C (1966) Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research Chicago: Rand McNally Cook, T D and ... accepted and standardised techniques of the natural sciences STANDARDISED PROCEDURES A N D QUALITATIVE RESEARCH As we shall see in a little while, there are psychological research methods for which...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 16:20

... 9000 factors for an evaluation and a strategic university planning For the implementation, a Web-based DSS is based on ISO 9000 factors for the evaluation and strategic planning for a case study ... industries, and education and training [2,6] In addition, ISO 9000 is a series of generic international standards developed by the International Organization for Standardization for Quality Management and ... elements and consist of five standards: ISO 9000-1, ISO 9001, ISO 9002, ISO 9003 and ISO 9004-1 [1,2] Currently, ISO 9000 standards have been adopted by more than 74 countries as national standards for...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 14:20

... solving and insight generation is the central feature that distinguishes action research from all other research methods, and hence, action research is an excellent method for bridging research and ... favorite research method (e.g., survey research) This is an unfortunate trend Research methods should be chosen to best fit a research problem, and not the other way round Blind data mining Some researchers ... on Research Methods at the University of South Florida The target audience for this book includes Ph.D and graduate students, junior researchers, and professors teaching courses on research methods, ...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:20

... actors in higher policy and decision-making fora, but equally - and potentially more important - they can be bottom-up, that is promoted and enforced by the health workforce, for instance by means ... point, we developed a framework for conceptualising ‘global health’ education (GHE) and to guide monitoring and evaluation of educational interventions and reforms through a set of key indicators ... overall driving forces for education reforms be considered (Figure 5) Indicators Finally, we deduce ten core indicators from the above framework for the purpose of monitoring and evaluation via...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

... Financial reporting problems, translation of foreign currency financial statements, information systems, budgets and performance evaluation, audits, and taxes On the basis of this classification, ... corporation, and (4) foreign direct investment, have created an environment in which business transactions, their conduct, measurement and disclosure, take new and distinctive forms that call for a ... international firms, and comparisons of accounting principles and practices found in foreign lands and the procedures by which they are established According to M Iqbal, T Melcher and A Elmallah (1997,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... academic interest and discussions are held along with the clinician and pathologist A minimum of 75% attendance is mandatory for Junior, Associate and Senior Consultants, Residents and DNB students ... Biology and Immunology Topics of Journal Clubs and seminars will be circulated The department conducts a PhD programme and PhD scholars and research fellows are expected to present his or her research ... mandatory for DNB students ANAESTHESIOLOGY, PAIN AND PERIOP MEDICINE Chairperson: Dr Jayashree Sood Teaching Coordinator: Dr V.P Kumra Attendance Attendance is compulsory for postgraduates and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... summary, X, and the BNG of the candidate summary, Y The ith entry in X is xi and has weight xW (analogously i W for yi and yi ) A similarity score s(xi , yj ) between all ngrams xi and yj w=0.1 ... matches similar BEs, and finally scores them Both ROUGE and BE have been implemented and included in the ROUGE/BE evaluation toolkit1 , which has been used as the default evaluation tool in the ... representations for both the model and candidate summaries, and applied graph matching algorithm to assess their similarity Conroy et al (2011) extended the model in (Conroy and Dang, 2008) to...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... $70 for FCOI report and $70 for mitigation report $70 × 50 = $3,500 for FCOI report and $70 × = $350 for mitigation report Total = $3,850 950 63 950 64 for reporting FCOI and for ... 11,400 10,000 NA for FCOI report and for mitigation report 50×2 = 100 for FCOI report and 5×2=10 for mitigation report Total =110 950 90 950 91 for reporting FCOI and for mitigation ... serve these and other important scientific goals, and we support the timely release and sharing of final research data and research tools from PHS-supported studies for use by other researchers...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... documents and segments This kind of results is valuable for rapid evaluation and ranking of translations and systems However, it is unfriendly for MT developers that need to manually analyze and compare ... the candidate and the reference translations However, the current command-line interface returns the results only in text mode and does not allow for fully exploiting this linguistic information ... according to their classification, and how this information can be used for MT error analysis purposes Lexical information There are several variants under this family For instance, lexical overlap...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 20:20

... vision for future forestry research Common areas of high priority research include: Sustainable Forestry - Develop systems and methods to sustain the productivity of intensively managed forests for ... provided products for great corporations and small businesses, picnics and political rallies and produced paper for magazines and newspapers, novels and encyclopedias, poetry and art Generations ... air and water quality, wildlife and fish habitat and aesthetics Biomass will be used not only for building materials and paper and paperboard products, but also increasingly for steam, power, and...

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Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... expanding and broadbased literature on program evaluation from monitoring and evaluation approaches to experimental and nonexperimental econometric methods for designing and conducting impact evaluations ... quantitative research underlying recent program evaluations and case studies that reflect the hands-on experience and challenges of researchers and program officials in implementing such methods The Handbook ... a hands-on fashion for practitioners This book also details challenges and goals in other realms of evaluation, including monitoring and evaluation (M&E), operational evaluation, and mixed-methods...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... Cutler and Margaret Bull Kovera Civil Titles Evaluation of Capacity to Consent to Treatment and Research, Scott Y H Kim Evaluation for Guardianship, Eric Y Drogin and Curtis L Barrett Evaluation for ... Injury Claims, Andrew W Kane and Joel Dvoskin Evaluation for Civil Commitment, Debra Pinals and Douglas Mossman Evaluation for Harassment and Discrimination Claims, William Foote and Jane Goodman ... Kruh and Thomas Grisso Evaluation for Risk of Violence in Juveniles, Robert Hoge and D.A Andrews Evaluation for Child Protection, Karen S Budd, Jennifer Clark, Mary Connell, and Kathryn Kuehnle Evaluation...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 00:21

... fscanf() as before with appropriate formatting conversion specifiers like %s for string, %d for numeric and so forth, we are restricted to intrinsic machine data types such as ‘uchar’ for an unsigned ... number of colors present, and so forth A great many standards for data representation exist in practice For example, a common format found on Windows is the “bitmap” file format with extension bmp, ... m-file, its inputs and outputs, and any usage limitations It’s usually a good idea to develop a template with sufficient information for future use, and to use it consistently For example: % % %...

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