The broad concept of patient reported outcome measures (PROM) includes measurements reported by those who have a disease. These cover a spectrum that ranges from evaluating symptoms, adherence to treatment, functional capacity, health status and quality of life to quality of care aspects.1 In the mid 1970s a movement began to include the perspective of the patient as part of the necessary asses...

This paper concerns the estimation of an intertemporal model for labour supply and consumption that recognises the presence of nonworkers and which is cast in a structural optimising framework that allows for uncertainty. Through the utilisation of a micro-data source that measures consumption and labour supply we are able to estimate a flexible preference model which incorporates comer solutio...

The Ngram Statistics Package (Text::NSP) is freely available open-source software that identifies ngrams, collocations and word associations in text. It is implemented in Perl and takes advantage of regular expressions to provide very flexible tokenization and to allow for the identification of non-adjacent ngrams. It includes a wide range of measures of association that can be used to identify...

We present a method to realize exible mixedinitiative dialogue, in which the system can make e ective con rmation and guidance using concept-level con dence measures (CMs) derived from speech recognizer output in order to handle speech recognition errors. We de ne two concept-level CMs, which are on contentwords and on semantic-attributes, using 10-best outputs of the speech recognizer and pars...

In this paper, we extend and overview wide families of Alpha-, Betaand Gammadivergences and discuss their fundamental properties. In literature usually only one single asymmetric (Alpha, Beta or Gamma) -divergence is considered. We show in this paper that there exist families of such divergences with the same consistent properties. Moreover, we establish links and correspondences among these di...

We i)rcsent a method to r(:aliz(: th:xil)le mix(;(linitiative dialogue, in which the syst(:m can mak(, etti:ctive COlflirmation mad guidmn(:(: using (-oncel)t-leve,1 confidcn('e mcmsur(,s (CMs) derived from st)eech recognizer output in ord(:r to handl(: sl)eech recognition errors. W(: d(:tine two con('et)t-level CMs, which are oil COllt(~,Ilt words and on semantic-attrilmtes, using 10-best outt...

The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil with particular emphasis on industrial relations, wage setting, unemployment benefits, employment protection and vocational training. The paper shows that institutions determine the mode of adjustmen...

Query generalization is one option to implement flexible query answering. In this paper, we introduce a generalization operator (called powerset-AI) that extends conventional Anti-Instantiation (AI). We analyze structural modifications imposed by the generalization to obtain syntactic similarity measures (based on the star feature) that rank generalized queries with regard to their closeness to...