In a clinical experiment, it was found that there is a high correlation between the compliance measured by tympanometry and the minimum size of the earmold vent, which just solves the client's occlusion problem related to his/her own voice when using a hearing aid. For ears with sensorineural hearing losses, compliance explained 59 percent of the variation in vent size, whereas the average low-...

This paper presents the creation of an MPEG-7 compliant annotation using a commercial multimedia database. The contributions of this paper is first identifying the most effective weights, for low level image characteristics, with Oracle Intermedia. Second, describing a video scene identification technique using an Oracle 10g multimedia database.

We demonstrate a new approach to collaborative visual analysis, in which descriptions of graphics are shared online. HiVE – a high-level descriptive language – captures the way in which graphics are built and configured. HiVE statements and commentary can be micro-blogged. Compliant software clients can interpret HiVE, provide user-interfaces to allow users to explore data through graphical rec...

Because of the high stakes involved in integrating externally developed intellectual property (IP) cores used in System on Chip (SOC) designs, methods and tool support for quick, easy, decisive standard compliance verification must be developed. Such methods and tools include formal standard specifications that are easy to read, formal definitions of standard compliance and automatic generation...

The present investigation compared the effects of reinforcing compliance with either positive or negative reinforcement for a participant who displayed escape-maintained problem behavior. The results indicated that positive reinforcement in the form of a highly preferred edible or leisure item produced higher levels of compliance and lower levels of problem behavior when compared to negative re...

Many studies have evaluated bundled interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance. However, there are few evidence-based recommendations on optimal interventions for implementation. We aimed to systematically review all studies on interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance to evaluate existing bundles and identify areas of promise to target high-quality studies. Adjusted risk ratios we...

What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries Considerable evidence suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance. To resolve this puzzle of tax compliance several researchers have argued that citizens’ attitudes toward paying taxes defined as tax morale helps to explain the high degree of tax compliance. How...

This paper identifies six phases in the development of the compliance costs of taxation, in an Australian context. Estimates of the compliance costs of personal and public companies’ income taxation are presented, and an international comparison cautiously made. Major policy issues related to compliance costs are considered. Cost-reducing measures are identified and classified. Specific proposa...

Information campaigns to increase tax compliance could be framed in different ways. They can either highlight the potential gains when tax compliance is high, or the potential losses when compliance is low. According to regulatory focus theory, such framing should be most effective when it is congruent with the promotion or prevention focus of its recipients. Two studies confirmed the hypothesi...