OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of general practitioners, practice nurses, and interpretative software in the use of different types of electrocardiogram to diagnose atrial fibrillation. DESIGN Prospective comparison with reference standard of assessment of electrocardiograms by two independent specialists. SETTING 49 general practices in central England. PARTICIPANTS 2595 patients aged ...

Narrative ability is one of the most promising ways to assess communicative competence in children: Coordination of lexical, morphosyntactic, phonological, and pragmatic elements is needed to produce narrations. Narratives might even serve as a diagnostic tool for Specific Language Impairment, since children with Specific Language Impairment are reported to have difficulties producing (oral) na...

In patients with acute leukemia we investigated the illness perceptions, lay theories and coping strategies 1 week after diagnosis. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 patients. The transcribed interviews were analyzed by methods of qualitative research. Dramatic narrations of overwhelming threat in younger patients contrast to rationalization in elderly patients. Feeling...

An automated reading tutor that models and evaluates children's oral reading prosody should also be able to respond dynamically with feedback they like, understand, and benefit from. We describe visual feedback that Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor generates in realtime by mapping prosodic features of children's oral reading to dynamic graphical features of displayed text. We present results from...

This poster aims to visually present the first results of the ongoing research on a cartographic approach to the representation of knowledge in its present configurations by showing some applications of the ‘Knowledge Atlas’, a software tool developed to explore such approach. The concept of ‘atlas’ in this context doesn’t depict as much a list of maps, but rather a system of representations of...

Computational Narrative has provided several examples of how to process narrations using semantical approaches. While many useful concepts for computational management of stories have been unveiled, a common barrier has hindered their development: semantic knowledge is still too complex to handle. In this paper, a focus shift based on narrative structure is proposed. Instead of digging deeper i...

Protocol narrations are widely used in security as semi-formal notations to specify conversations between roles. We define a translation from a protocol narration to the sequences of operations to be performed by each role. Unlike previous works, we reduce this compilation process to well-known decision problems in formal protocol analysis. This allows one to define a natural notion of prudent ...

One of the main issues in the Islamic knowledge is the divine revelation made to the Prophet (s). Of particular interest in this regard is the revelation of the Qur’ān to the Prophet (s) and its manner. This is one of the disputed discussions among the exegetes and the scholars of the qur’ānic sciences. The source of this discussion is comprised of numerous narrations that are found in the narr...

The article contributes to the research into modern system of surnames Poles as a culture text which can become basis for reconstructing community self-narrations. presented perspective takes consideration following assumptions: 1. Narration naturally accompanies cognition. 2. Personal proper names (i.e. anthroponyms) have unique ontological and epistemological status in anthropocentric cogniti...