OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of implementing the surgical safety checklist (SSCL) on the outcome of patient safety in otorhinolaryngology (ENT) surgical procedures in two hospitals in Saudi Arabia: Aseer Central and Abha Private Hospitals. METHODS This retrospective study conducted over seven years (1 July 2008 to 30 June 2015) followed a staff educational and training program for the impl...

Recent trends in medical education include a shift from the traditional, didactic, lecture-oriented approach to a more student-driven, problem-based approach to learning. This trend provides librarians with an opportunity to develop programs to teach information-gathering skills that support and are integrated into problem-based learning (PBL). In 1992, the University of Pittsburgh School of Me...

The aim of this paper is to explore whether indexing terms for an audiovisual program can be derived from contextual texts automatically. For this we apply natural-language processing techniques to contextual texts of two Dutch TV-programs. We use a Dutch domain thesaurus to derive and rank the metadata. We evaluate the results by comparing them to human made descriptions.

audiovisual material accompanied by interlingual subtitles is a powerful pedagogical tool which can help improve the vocabulary learning of second-language learners. this study was intended to determine whether or not the mode (standard and reversed) of subtitling affects the incidental vocabulary acquisition of iranian l2 learners while watching tv programs. forty-five participants were random...

Developmental dyslexia affects 5%-10% of the population, resulting in poor spelling and reading skills. While there are well-documented differences in the way dyslexics process low-level visual and auditory stimuli, it is mostly unknown whether there are similar differences in audiovisual multisensory processes. Here, we investigated audiovisual integration using the redundant target effect (RT...

INA (that stands for Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) is the French institute in charge of the archiving for radio and television. INA archives programs broadcasted by the French public radio or TV channels. But INA is also in charge of the legal deposit for Audiovisual: INA archives a selection of all programs broadcasted in France, be they by private or public channels. As a consequence, I...

While current approaches for audiovisual data segmentation and classification are mostly focused on visual cues, audio signals may actually play a more important role in content parsing for many applications. An approach to automatic segmentation and classification of audiovisual data based on audio content analysis is proposed. The audio signal from movies or TV programs is segmented and class...

The digitization and annotation of audiovisual programs results in a huge amount of information that becomes useful only if it is properly organized and if the appropriate query mechanisms exist. Usually audiovisual information and meta-information is stored in relational database schemata that consist of decades of tables, relationships and constraints that complicate the information querying ...