BACKGROUND Hypertension is one of the key factors causing cardiovascular diseases. A substantial proportion of treated hypertensive patients do not reach recommended target blood pressure values. Shared decision making (SDM) is to enhance the active role of patients. As until now there exists little information on the effects of SDM training in antihypertensive therapy, we tested the effect of ...

The benefit of participation in group audiologic rehabilitation classes was examined for adults with hearing loss (subjects) and their significant others (SOs). Thirteen subjects attended the classes with their SOs, and 12 subjects attended the classes on their own. All subjects attended six 90-minute classes consisting of informational lectures, and training in communication strategies, audito...

In this paper we discuss potential benefits and future directions in virtual reality rehabilitation for co-located motor training in children with developmental movement disorders. We discuss the potential for co-located VR to promote participation using cooperative virtual environments, facilitate social learning, and quantify levels of social interaction. We pay particular attention to the ca...

We describe the participation of the USEMP team in the Placing Task at MediaEval 2014. We submitted four textual runs which are inspired by CEA LIST’s 2013 participation. Our entries are based on probabilistic place modeling but also exploit machine tag and/or user modeling. The best results were obtained when all these types of information are combined. The accuracy of automatic at 1km reaches...

This paper documents the participation of the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence to the CLEF 2010 ResPubliQA lab. We answered questions in Romanian and English from Romanian documents of Acquis Communautaire and the European Parliament Proceedings. We extend the report from the previous ResPubliQA participation by introducing multi-factored paragraph relevance score training onto En...

in 1985-86, the european office of world health organization (who) proposed the health promotion program under the theme “healthy cities projects”. with the aim of securing individual and collective welfare, the staffs of healthy city in tehran also began their official activities at 13th aban street at rey (tehran’s 20th municipal district) along with community participation and intersectoral ...

This paper describes the TALP participation in the WMT13 evaluation campaign. Our participation is based on the combination of several statistical machine translation systems: based on standard phrasebased Moses systems. Variations include techniques such as morphology generation, training sentence filtering, and domain adaptation through unit derivation. The results show a coherent improvement...

objectives: cerebral palsy is the most common type of permanent movement and posture disorder in children leading to activity limitations. children's participation is influenced by their functional ability, skills, interests, and environmental factors. the objective of the study was to describe parent perception of environmental barriers to participation of children with cerebral palsy. me...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Quality improvement (QI) has become an integral aspect of family medicine residency training. This study examines whether QI training during residency is associated with the integration of QI activities into practice following graduation. METHODS A confidential survey was delivered to South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (SC AHEC)-associated family medicin...