OBJECTIVE Our objective was to describe our experience with a commercially available continuous speech recognition system, highlighting the advantages, disadvantages, and costs compared with those of conventional transcription for MR imaging reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from 5072 reports generated in our MR imaging section during a 9-month period after the implementation of a commercia...

The airline industry is constantly subject to the search of new methods in order to increase efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Since airlines only generate revenue when their airplanes are on the air, the time they spend at the airports should be the shortest possible. Hence, the airplane turnaround time becomes a process which airlines pay special attention on. The boarding...

INTRODUCTION Mass spectrometry Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization Time-of-Flight (MALDI-TOF) helps in the rapid identification of microorganisms causing blood stream infection. Rapid and reliable methods are required to decrease the turnaround time for reporting antimicrobial susceptibility results from blood culture isolates. METHODS An evaluation was performed on the reliability of...

Automatic road network extraction based on high resolution satellite image for urban planning holds great potential for significant reduction of database development/updating cost and turnaround time. Satellite remote sensing has been recognized worldwide as an effective 1 / 4

Impact sourcing outsources tasks to people living in poverty in underdeveloped regions, allowing them to earn the dignity of work and a living wage. Samasource is a leader in impact sourcing, decomposing and encapsulating data projects into microwork for global service delivery at centers around the world. By using microwork centers instead of large for-profit vendors, Samasource calculates cus...