My central goal is to compute dialogue acts automatically. A dialogue act is a concise abstraction of a speaker's intention, such as SUGGEST and REQUEST. Recognizing dialogue acts is critical to understanding at the discourse level, and dialogue acts can also be useful for other applications, such as resolving ambiguity in speech recognition. But, often, a dialogue act cannot be directly inferr...

Abstract: Introduction: Team-Based Learning (TBL) is an active-learning methodology that has been successfully employed in various health schools’ curricula. This study assessed the perception of pharmacy students studying a College Pharmaceutical Sciences towards TBL with emphasis on their to online TBL. Materials and Methods: The was cross sectional survey including all four years Bachelor Ph...

PURPOSE At our institution, speculation amongst medical students and faculty exists as to whether team-based learning (TBL) can improve scores on high-stakes examinations over traditional didactic lectures. Faculty with experience using TBL developed and piloted a required TBL blood disorders (BD) module for third-year medical students on their pediatric clerkship. The purpose of this study is ...

In recent decades the management of large game mammals has become increasingly intensive in south central Spain (SCS), resulting in complex epidemiological scenarios for disease maintenance, and has probably impeded schemes to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) in domestic livestock. We conducted an analysis of risk factors which investigated associations between the pattern of tuberculosis-like lesio...

Background and aims: Tubercular lymphadenitis (TBL) is most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis both in children and adults. Acid fast bacilli (AFB) positivity in fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) specimens is low; culture is time consuming and has limited availability; and newer molecular methods are costly and availability is limited. Improvement in microscopy, such as bleach meth...

PURPOSE The readiness assurance process (RAP) of team-based learning (TBL) is an important element that ensures that students come prepared to learn. However, the RAP can use a significant amount of class time which could otherwise be used for application exercises. The authors administered the TBL-associated RAP in class or individual readiness assurance tests (iRATs) at home to compare medica...

This paper applies an Analytic Network Process (ANP) to supplier selection at a Taiwanese Electronics Company. The selection process is based on the Triple Bottom Line (TBL). It shows that the use of ANP helps to capture the imprecision in human judgment while TBL enables the consideration of social development, environmental protection, and economic development issues. With TBL, a holistic vie...

BACKGROUND Although Type 1 cytokine responses are considered protective in pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), their role as well as those of Type 2, 17 and immunoregulatory cytokines in tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBL) and latent tuberculosis (LTB) have not been well studied. AIM AND METHODS To identify cytokine responses associated with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), TB lymphadenitits and latent TB,...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate the impact of anatomic and procedural variables on the outcome of the unprotected left main coronary artery (uLMCA) itself after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation. BACKGROUND There is a controversial debate regarding when and how to perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for an uLMCA stenosis. METHODS This analysis is based on a randomi...

BACKGROUND Th1 and Th17 responses are known to play an important role in immunity to pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), although little is known about their role in extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis (TB). METHODS To identify the role of Th1, Th17, and Th22 cells in multi-focal TB lymphadenitis (TBL), we examined mycobacteria-specific immune responses in the whole blood of individuals with PTB (...