medical errors are unintentional acts that take place due to the negligence or lead to undesirable consequences in medical practice. the purpose of this study was to design a conceptual model for medical error reporting system. this applied descriptive cross-sectional research employed delphi method carried out from 2012 to 2013. the study population was medical and paramedical personnel of hea...

this paper aims to investigate the effect of firm reporting quality, timeliness andquantity for disclosure and reliability of financial reports on the reaction of stockprice delay. statistical population includes 111 active firms in tehran stock exchangeduring 2010-2014 using cochrane method with the confidence level of95%. totally, they were 555 firms-years. in this paper, linear and nonlinear...

The number of publications investigating heart rate variability (HRV) in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences has increased markedly in the last decade. In addition to the significant debates surrounding ideal methods to collect and interpret measures of HRV, standardized reporting of methodology in this field is lacking. Commonly cited recommendations were designed well before recent calls t...

Large vocabulary automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies perform well in known, controlled contexts. However recognition of proper nouns is commonly considered as a difficult task. Accurate phonetic transcription of a proper noun is difficult to obtain, although it can be one of the most important resources for a recognition system. In this article, we propose methods of automatic phone...

This article describes how the performance of a Dutch continuous speech recognizer was improved by modeling pronunciation variation. We propose a general procedure for modeling pronunciation variation. In short, it consists of adding pronunciation variants to the lexicon, retraining phone models and using language models to which the pronunciation variants have been added. First, within-word pr...

We consider the phenomenon of postlexical deletion in fast spontaneously spoken isiZulu speech and its implication for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Analysis of hand-crafted transcripts of fast spontaneous speech recorded from broadcast media indicates that postlexical deletion, especially of vowels, is common in isiZulu. We show that ASR performance can be increased by inclusion of pronu...