The American College of Medical Informatics is an honorary society established to recognize those who have made sustained contributions to the field. Its highest award, for lifetime achievement and contributions to the discipline now known more inclusively as biomedical informatics, is the Morris F. Collen Award. Dr. Collen’s own efforts as a pioneer in the field stand as the embodiment of crea...

Enduring inequalities in Chile’s education system are both a socio-economic and ethno-national problem. Student protests in 2006 and 2011 are representative of growing public concerns over the neoliberal socio-economic model adopted by respective governments since the military regime ended in 1990. Education has also become a contested space in which the recognition of indigenous rights – and c...

The paper reviewed empirical studies on children’s school achievements. The contributions of parenting attitude and style were examined in relation to children’s school achievement. A strong relationship between children’s school achievement and parenting attitude and style was reported in the paper. Findings from the review revealed that authoritative parenting styles were associated with high...

background achievement in university education may be related to one’s emotional intelligent (ei) as well as his/her social skills and emotional control. therefore, it is also probable that the ei be associated with academic and occupational achievement in medical students. objectives the aim of this study was evaluation of the relation between ei and academic achievement of students working in...

The log energy parameter has long been used as an extension to the basic cepstral feature vector in speech recognition. The use of a normalization technique for the log energy parameter has also been widely accepted. In this paper, a simple energy normalization scheme is introduced that allows direct use of the frame energy parameter in speech recognition and performs well in the presence of no...

Facial expression is an essential and impressive means of human contact. This is important connection of information for knowing emotional case and motive. A facial expression pursues not only emotions, but other creative action, social cooperation and psychological characteristics. Appearance based facial expression recognition systems are analyzed and have pulled widen application. A new stud...

The relationship between print exposure and measures of reading skill was examined in college students (N = 99, 58 female; mean age = 20.3 years). Print exposure was measured with several new self-reports of reading and writing habits, as well as updated versions of the Author Recognition Test and the Magazine Recognition Test (Stanovich & West, 1989). Participants completed a sentence comprehe...

The American College of Medical Informatics is an honorary society established to recognize those who have made sustained contributions to the field. Its highest award, for lifetime achievement and contributions to the discipline now known more inclusively as biomedical informatics, is the Morris F Collen Award. Dr. Collen’s own efforts as a pioneer in the field stand as the embodiment of creat...

Facial expression is an essential and impressive means of human contact. This is important connection of information for knowing emotional case and motive. A facial expression pursues not only emotions, but other creative action, social cooperation and psychological characteristics. Appearance based facial expression recognition systems are analyzed and have pulled widen application. A new stud...

Ever since the deep neural network (DNN) appeared in the speech signal processing society, the recognition performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been greatly improved. Due to this achievement, the demands on various applications in distant-talking environment also have been increased. However, ASR performance in such environments is still far from that in close-talking environme...