ISTORY st Vietnamese in the U.S. come from what was once Republic of Vietnam, known as "South Vietnam," ich had its capital at Saigon. Their government, allied th the United States, collapsed under military pressure m communist North Vietnam in 1975, starting a mass gration of Vietnamese to the United States as ugees. After Saigon came under communist control, ny ex-military, government officia...

A study on over 2000 patients has been conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam, to explore the influences of psychological and socio-economic factors on the evaluation of healthcare quality and public health by patients. The findings suggest effective health communication and the status of being married are two elements that have the strongest impact on people’s positive perceptions about healthcare qualit...

Census data show that the U.S. Vietnamese population now exceeds 1,250,000. Cervical cancer among Vietnamese American women has been identified as an important health disparity. Available data indicate the cervical cancer disparity may be due to low Papanicolaou (Pap) testing rates rather than variations in human papillomavirus infection rates and/or types. The cervical cancer incidence rates a...

background and objectives: hospital bed utilization is influenced by various factors, which may be categorized into patient-related, physician-related, and administration-related issues. it could be argued that the causes of inappropriate hospital bed utilization would be perceived differently by the clinicians and the patients. given the unique role of clinical practitioners in quality of care...

relationship between public and private sector is becoming an increasingly important issue in management of agricultural extension services. the need for a strong linkage could be identified as the gap between desirable and current situation. in this research, the differences among current and desirable situation in six diverse dimensions was calculated. the current and desirable situation was ...

current article is allocated to the report of a research in which the income elasticities of urban families” demand for public education in time period of 2008-2013 were estimated separately according to the income deciles and by applying rotterdam demand system, it was clarified that public education is normal commodity. different size of estimative elasticities indicated that public education...

Information technology is not being optimally incorporated in developing countries for improving healthcare practices and the implementation problems have been so portrayed that it has further reduced investors’ confidence in hospital management information systems (HMIS). The purpose of this study was to ascertain the actual impact of various factors on HMIS in Pakistan for which an explorator...

The current paper presents preliminary work towards the integration of the Fujisaki model into the VnVoice Vietnamese TTS system, based on a set of rules to control the F0 contour. A speech corpus consisting of 20 sentences was compiled. Each of the sentences can have various meanings depending on the tone associated with a monosyllabic keyword which it contains. The corpus with a total of 46 s...