Humans have a long history of activity in Mediterranean Basin landscapes. Spatial heterogeneity in these landscapes hinders our understanding about the impacts of changes in human activity on ecological processes, such as wildfire. The use of spatially-explicit models that simulate processes at fine scales should aid the investigation of spatial patterns at the broader, landscape scale. Here, w...

This article presents an evolutionary framework for the establishment and progression of clientvendor relationships in the context of offshore applications development. It is argued that such a relationship typically begins as a cost-reduction exercise, with the client contracting out simple, structured applications to one or more offshore vendors. Over time, the client assigns increasingly com...

In this paper, assessment of ASR systems with a limited set of speech data selected from a larger testing corpus was studied for connected Dutch digits. Three methods of data selection were applied, namely random, knowledge-based, and datadriven selection. The goal of this study was to find out whether reliable assessment of speech recognition systems can be achieved by using a small sample of ...

Healthcare represents a traditional personal service sector with established importance of patient numeracy profiles. This is of importance because patient numeracy skill is one of the key factors associated with poor understanding of treatment decisions and non-adherence to therapies. This paper aims to introduce a novel quality model for the evaluation of patient numeracy assessment methods. ...

Recent studies of flood risk at New York Harbor (NYH) have shown disparate results for the 100 year storm tide, providing an uncertain foundation for the flood mitigation response after Hurricane Sandy. Here we present a flood hazard assessment that improves confidence in our understanding of the region’s present-day potential for flooding, by separately including the contribution of tropical c...

Author’s response I totally agree with comments by Pitak-Arnnop et al which emphasizes the importance of clinical relevance (though not statistically significant) and 95% CI confidence interval in today's publication process this change of mindset had evolved over many years of education on research & biostatistics. I must clarify that the present article is highlighting the well-known bias of ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Mental health related presentations are common in Australian Emergency Departments (EDs). We sought to better understand ED staff knowledge and levels of confidence in treating people with mental health related problems using qualitative methods. METHODS This was a qualitative learning needs analysis of Australian emergency doctors and nurses regarding the assessment ...