Shiny WebApp - The Basics

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Managing speech databases with emur and the EMU-webapp

As is the nature of the discipline, a majority of speech and language researchers spend a large amount of their time acquiring and transforming data into analyzable and interpretable forms to gain a better understanding of a certain subject matter. In this paper we present a collection of tools that aid the researcher in this sometimes tedious and error-prone process. The tools presented here a...

The Basics of Dependability

• Availability refers to a system’s readiness for usage: if the Google search engine answers my queries every time I submit a request, then I can say it is highly available. Note that availability says nothing about the system when you are not asking it for service: if google.comwas unreachable whenever nobody accessed the search engine, it would make no difference with regards to availability,...

Smit MENINGITIS – THE BASICS

The most common symptoms of meningitis are headache and neck stiffness associated with fever, confusion or altered consciousness, vomiting, and photophobia or phonophobia. Sometimes, especially in small children, only nonspecific symptoms may be present, such as irritability and drowsiness. If a rash is present, it may indicate a particular cause of meningitis; for instance, meningitis caused b...

QALYs: the basics.

The aim of this article is to review the concept of the qualityadjusted life-year (QALY), a widely used measure of health improvement that is used to guide health-care resource allocation decisions. The QALY was originally developed as a measure of health effectiveness for cost-effectiveness analysis, a method intended to aid decision-makers charged with allocating scarce resources across compe...