The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of suicide behavior and to examine the association between hopeless feelings, suicidal behavior and components of the WHO Quality-of-Life-BREF instrument among college students (n=1,217) in China, Thailand, and Korea. Results showed 3.7% Thai, 10% Chinese, and 13.2% Korean students exhibited suicidal behavior in the past 12 months. Most...

| In this paper we report a series of tests carried out on our hybrid HMM/ANN systems which aims at combining Neural Networks theory and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) for speech recognition of a continuous speech French database: BREF-80. As this database is not manually labelled , we describe a new method based on the temporal alignment of the speech signal on a high quality synthetic speech pat...

O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar a qualidade de vida (QV) dos estudantes pós-graduação em Odontologia por meio domínios World Health Organization Questionnaire for Quality of Life-bref (WHOQOL-bref). Trata-se um transversal, com 88 matriculados programa Odontologia. Os dados foram coletados entre junho e agosto 2015, incluindo informações sociodemográficas questionário vida, o WHOQOL-bref. Foi ...

Araştırmanın amacı rutin yaşam davranışlarının değiştiği pandemi sürecinde Türkiye’de bireylerin sağlıklı biçimi davranışları ile kalitelerini saptamak ve kaliteleri üzerindeki etkisini belirlemektir. evrenini Türkiye’deki 18-70 yaş aralığında bulunan bireyler oluşturmaktadır. örneklemini ise rastgele örneklem yoluyla seçilmiş 742 birey Araştırma verileri genel bilgi formu, “Sağlıklı Yaşam Biçi...

The present study examined the reliability and validity of a Chinese translation of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS). Three questionnaires, the MAAS, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), and the brief version of the World Health Organization's Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF), were completed by 263 Chinese undergraduates (207 males, 56 females). Seventy of these students ...

This contribution aims at evaluating the use of pronunciation variants across different system configurations, languages and speaking styles. This study is limited to the use of variants during speech alignment, given an orthographic transcription and a phonemically represented lexicon, thus focusing on the modeling abilities of the acoustic word models. Parallel and sequential variants are tes...

Over 600 choral singers drawn from English choirs completed the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire to measure physical, psychological, social, and environmental wellbeing, and a 12-item “effects of choral singing scale.” They also provided accounts of the effects of choral singing on quality of life, wellbeing, and physical health in response to open questions. High average scores were found on all WHOQ...

This study aimed to evaluate the health-related quality of life (HRQOL)of Emirati people with diabetes and to explore the sociodemographic and disease-related variables affecting it. The Arabic version of the World Health Organization quality of life questionnaire, short version (WHOQOL-BREF) was administered to 200 people with diabetes. The overall mean score was 63.1 (SD 15.0), ranging from 6...

BREF, a large read-speech corpus in French has been designed with several aims: to provide enough speech data to develop dictation machines, to provide data for evaluation of continuous speech recognition systems (both speaker-dependent and speaker-independent), and to provide a corpus of continuous speech to study phonological variations. This paper presents some of the design considerations o...