There are various methods to collect adverse events (AEs) in clinical trials. The methods how AEs are collected in vaccine trials is of special interest: solicited reporting can lead to over-reporting events that have little or no biological relationship to the vaccine. We assessed the rate of AEs listed in the package insert for the virosomal hepatitis A vaccine Epaxal(®), comparing data colle...

BACKGROUND School participation in collecting and reporting syndromic surveillance (SS) data to public health officials and school nurses' attitudes regarding SS have not been assessed. METHODS An online survey was sent to Missouri Association of School Nurses members during the 2013/2014 school year to assess whether K-12 schools were collecting and reporting SS data. Z-scores were used to a...

This paper addresses a core question in distributed systems: how should applications be notified of failures? When a distributed system acts on failure reports, the system’s correctness and availability depend on the granularity and semantics of those reports. The system’s availability also depends on coverage (failures are reported), accuracy (reports are justified), and timeliness (reports co...

In this paper we present a system for robust online far-field multi-channel speech recognition with minimal assumptions on microphone configuration and target location. We employ an online-enabled Generalized Eigenvalue (GEV) beamformer and a Long Short-TermMemory (LSTM) network to robustly calculate the signal statistics necessary for the beamforming operation in the front-end. After multiple ...

Tuberculosis treatment remains a challenge due to the need to consider, when approaching it, the context of individual and collective health. In addition, social and economic issues have been shown to be variables that need to be considered when it comes to treatment effectiveness. We conducted a critical review of the national and international literature on the treatment of tuberculosis in re...

When phone segmentations are known a priori, normalizing the duration of each phone has been shown to be effective in overcoming weaknesses in duration modeling of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). While we have observed potential relative reductions in word error rate (WER) of up to 34.6% with oracle segmentation information, it has been difficult to achieve significant improvement in WER with segm...

Dialectal Arabic has no standard orthographic representation. This creates a challenge when evaluating an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system for dialect. Since the reference transcription text can vary widely from one user to another, we propose an innovative approach for evaluating dialectal speech recognition using Multi-References. For each recognized speech segments, we ask five diff...

I agree with Schwarz & Clore (.pdf) on the importance of considering differences between original and replication studies when interpreting replication failures. I disagree on the proposition that without manipulation checks replications cannot be statistically analyzed as such, and disagree on their approach to considering hypotheses for why a replication failed. They stop after generating hyp...

In this paper we report recent improvements in voicemail transcription. The voicemail transcription task was introduced last year [1] as representing a style of conversational telephone speech that is somewhat different from the Switchboard and CallHome [2] databases. Last year, the speaker independent and speaker adapted word error rates (WER) on this task were reported at 41.94% and 38.18% re...

Background Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a revascularisation intervention for patients with acute coronary syndrome. It is a common procedure, increasingly used over the past decade. Along with PCI, patients are also prescribed a number of medications and adherence to the pharmacological therapies is vital to improved morbidity and mortality. Objective This cross‐sectional study s...