INTRODUCTION PERC rule was created to rule out pulmonary embolism (PE) without further exams, with residual PE risk<2%. Its safety is currently not confirmed in high PE prevalence populations even when combined with low clinical probability assessed by revised Geneva score (RGS). As PERC rule and RGS are 2 similar explicit rules with many redundant criteria, we hypothesized that the combination...

Objective To test neuropsychological signs in stroke patients using Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test Research design Retrospective analytical study Setting The Thai Red Cross Rehabilitation Center Patients Stroke patients who were older than 35 years old, admitted between 1998 2006 and completed Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test. Methods Medical records and results of the Bender Visual Motor Ges...

The psychological impact of child sexual abuse has been widely researched. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a group art therapy intervention designed by the authors aimed at reducing depression, anxiety, sexual trauma and low self-esteem among 25 sexually abused girls aged 8–11 years. The programme was based on existential-humanistic, Gestalt, client-centred and abusefocused principles...

Speech acoustics vary due to differences in age, gender, vocal tract length, microphone, and so on. The authors recently proposed a structural and abstract representation of speech, where these variations were effectively removed. This representation captures only dynamics of speech. In our previous study, using this abstract representation, a new framework of speech synthesis was proposed and ...