0950-5849/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2009.02.001 * Corresponding author. Address: Simula Research E-mail address: [email protected] (J.E. Hannay) Several experiments on the effects of pair versus solo programming have been reported in the literature. We present a meta-analysis of these studies. The analysis shows a small significant positive overall effect of ...

We reviewed the videotapes of 49 consecutive patients with a history of medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy for the presence and laterality of unilateral hand posturing (UHP), unilateral hand automatism (UHA), non-forced head turning (HT), and post-ictal dysphasia (PID). All of these patients underwent temporal resections with follow-up for more than 2 years after the surgery. We examin...

The relative contributions of segmental versus prosodic factors to the perceived naturalness of synthetic speech was measured by transplanting prosody between natural speech and the output of a diphone synthesizer. A small corpus was created containing matched sentence pairs wherein one member of the pair was a natural utterance and the other was a synthetic utterance generated with diphone dat...

purpose: to compare the efficacy and safety of topical mitomycin- c 0.01% versus dexamethazone phosphate 0.1% in patients with refractory vernal keratoconjunctivitis (vkc). methods: in this double blind randomized clinical trial, patients with refractory vkc were randomly assigned to treatment with topical mitomycin-c 0.01% eye drops (n=27) or dexamethazone phosphate 0.1% (n=27), four times dai...

Aim The purpose of the present study was to investigate the predictors of clinical deterioration soon after emergency department (ED) discharge. Methods We undertook a case-control study using the ED database of the Nagano Municipal Hospital (Nagano, Japan) from January 2012 to December 2013. We selected adult patients with medical conditions who revisited the ED with deterioration within 2 d...