In this report we show that a lexicon can be designed in such a way that lexical coverage can be maximized by real-time lexicon expansion and a limited word part lexicon for Dutch speech recognition. More specifically, we describe how the lexicon is designed and how the real-time expansion module was built and tested. Tests were performed using a 36.000 entries lexicon. The test results show th...

Radiation therapy used alone or in combination with chemotherapy and/or surgery for the treatment of cancer can be extremely problematic and painful to the patient. The adverse effects of radiation therapy include dryness, itching, peeling, or blistering of the skin. There are numerous formulas and compounds that can be utilized to help patients with radiation burns. The compounding pharmacist,...

In the pursuit of obtaining largest graphs of given maximum degree ∆ and diameter D, many construction techniques have been developed. Compounding of graphs is one such technique. In this paper, by means of the compounding of complete graphs into a Moore bipartite graph of diameter 6, we obtain a family of large graphs of the same diameter. For ∗Research supported in part by the Australian Rese...

Compounds, especially in languages where compounds are formed by concatenation without intervening whitespace between elements, pose challenges to simple text retrieval algorithms. Search queries that include compounds may not retrieve texts where elements of those compounds occur in uncompounded form; search queries that lack compounds will not retrieve texts where the salient elements are bur...

Medications given via the intravenous (IV) route provide rapid drug delivery to the body. IV therapy is a complex process requiring proper drug preparation before administration to the patients. Therefore, errors occurring at any stage can cause harmful clinical outcomes to the patients, which may lead to morbidity and mortality. This was a prospective observational study with the objectives to...

Corresponding author Sabrina de Souza Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Zip Code: 88040-900 [email protected] Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Conflicts of interest: none to report. Abstract Objective: To understand the ...

In Japan, the principal role of hospital pharmacists has changed from that of dispensing medicines for outpatients to provision of clinical pharmacy services for inpatients. A self-administered questionnaire about subjective symptoms, working patterns, work environments and job satisfaction was administered to 495 hospital pharmacists and 84 prefectural office-based pharmacists (control group)....

Liposomes, the vesicles of phospholipid bilayer, can encapsulate both hydrophilic and lipophilic drugs and protect them from degradation. Liposomes have been extensively studied and continue to create intense interest in research since their discovery in the mid-1960s. Since then, liposomes have been considered to be the most successful nanocarriers for drug deliver and have made their way to t...

Rapid technological advances and compounding complexities of the modern world have profound implications for all levels of education and training in the United States and around the world. Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) represent an important class of educational technology poised to play particularly critical role helping learners acquire the skills needed to succeed. This paper argues why...

The formulation scientist’s key goal is to achieve long-term stability of a drug compound. In the case of protein drugs, stabilization means not only maintaining the native chemical structure, but the native secondary and higher order structures necessary for biological activity (Cleland et al., 1993; Manning et al., 1989). Denaturation, as it is defined in this context, will be any non-native ...