conclusions emergency medical services should be considered as a system with its independent components. establishing an independent ems organization, integrating pre-hospital and hospital emergency under single supervision and management, as well as, extending the possibility of providing ems through private sector are essential in order to make fundamental reforms in providing emergency medic...

Vietnamese women living in the United States have a cervical cancer incidence rate that is five times that of White women. The low rate of cervical cancer screening among this high-risk population contributes to this disparity. In 2004, the National Cancer Institute collaborated with the Vietnamese American Medical Association to conduct a short needs assessment questionnaire (Pap Test Barriers...

BACKGROUND Clinical guidelines recommend breast-conserving surgery (BCS) with radiation as a viable alternative to mastectomy for treatment of early-stage breast cancer. Yet, Asian Americans are more likely than other groups to have mastectomy or omit radiation after BCS. METHODS We applied polytomous logistic regression and recursive partitioning to analyze factors associated with mastectomy...

Voice searching is the technology underlying in many spoken dialog applications that enable users to access information using spoken queries. With some popular languages like English etc, voice search function is able to help user to search complex voice queries thanks to long time researches for those languages. For Vietnamese language, voice searching has been researched and its results bring...

For the difficulty of marking Vietnamese dependency tree, this paper proposed the method which combined MST algorithm and improved Nivre algorithm to build Vietnamese dependency treebank. The method took full advantage of the characteristics of collaborative training. Firstly, we built a bit samples. Secondly, we used the samples to build two weak learners with two fully redundant views. Then, ...

Growing urbanization and the increasing size of metropolitan regions is a challenge as well as an opportunity for the economic development and social balance of societies particular in developing countries like Vietnam. The very dynamical evolution of the cities implies special requirements for mobility concepts. These need to be adapted to possible future developments both with respect to thei...

BACKGROUND Place of residence has been shown to impact health. To date, however, previous studies have only focused on the variability in health outcomes and healthcare costs between urban and rural patients. This study takes a different approach and investigates cost inequality facing non-residing patients - patients who do not reside in the regions in which the hospitals are located. Understa...

Understanding and managing tonal characteristics of Vietnamese language is one of the most difficult aspects in Vietnamese speech processing. However, at present, there is no common agreement about the influence of fundamental frequency (F0) on the perception of Vietnamese syllables. Thus, instead of analyzing the F0 of a limited number of Vietnamese syllables like other methods found in litera...

BACKGROUND Studies suggest that immigrants have higher rates of anxiety-depression than compatriots in low-middle income countries and lower rates than populations in host high income countries. Elucidating the factors that underlie these stepwise variations in prevalence may throw new light on the pathogenesis of anxiety-depressive disorders globally. This study aimed to examine whether quanti...