We have all been conditioned over the years by every form of audiovisual aid to believe that Guinness is good for you, and indeed we see an extensive field trial of this beverage being carried out daily by many of our friends, and so it may seem somewhat of a paradox to find a paper entitled 'Disease is Good for You'. I, however, would like to support the unorthodox idea and show that some dise...

Internet technology allows companies and individuals to overcome many of the physical constraints that often prevent them interacting from a distant. In the past several years, communication using data, audio, and video applications has become increasingly popular to overcome this burden. These applications help people to control/view their remote systems and to share ideas between employees an...

BACKGROUND Specialists in Rheumatology and Orthopaedics are frequently involved in undergraduate teaching of musculoskeletal (MSK) examination skills. Students often report that specialty-led teaching is inconsistent, confusing and bears little resemblance to the curricula. The Gait, Arms, Legs and Spine (GALS) is a MSK screening tool that provides a standardised approach to examination despite...

OBJECTIVES 1) To evaluate residents' perceptions of the quality of training in basic academic skills and the availability and quality of research resources during residency; 2) to evaluate the association between these attitudes and choice of an academic career; and 3) to assess residents' attitudes toward the importance of postgraduate fellowship training for success in an academic career. M...

Nowadays most lecture classes in various institutions conducted using advanced computer technologies, with the purpose to enhance students learning and sustain interest in the topic. Nevertheless, does that really help them? To assess the viewpoint of medical students of acceptance and preferences of methodology of teaching, in our institution the study was undertaken. The three methodologies w...

The MPEG-4 Audio standard provides a toolset for synthetic Audio generation and Audio processing called Structured Audio (SA). SA permits to describe algorithms through its Structured Audio Orchestra Language (SAOL) programming language. Unlike some other languages of the same type, SAOL has a sample-by-sample execution structure, and this makes particularly important the overhead computation i...

In this work, we present for the first time in our perception an efficient digital watermarking scheme for mpeg audio layer 3 files that operates directly in the compressed data domain, while manipulating the time and subband/channel domain. In addition, it does not need the original signal to detect the watermark. Our scheme was implemented taking special care for the efficient usage of the tw...

Purpose Because reading is an audiovisual process, reading impairment may reflect an audiovisual processing deficit. The aim of the present study was to test the existence and scope of such a deficit in adult readers with dyslexia. Method We tested 39 typical readers and 51 adult readers with dyslexia on their sensitivity to the simultaneity of audiovisual speech and nonspeech stimuli, their ...

This document describes a PhD research track on the disclosure of audiovisual digital archives. The domain of audiovisual material is introduced as well as a problem description is formulated. The main research objective is to investigate the gap between the different users and the digital archives. Next, design research is proposed as a methodology for this research. Lastly, the social and sci...