Instrumental acoustic measurements of the human voice have enormous potential to objectively describe pathology and, thereby, assist clinical treatment decisions. Despite increasing application and accessibility technical knowledge equipment, recent research has highlighted a lack understanding physiologic, speech/language-, culture-related influencing factors. This article presents critical re...

This is a qualitative research study using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with CT1–ST3 trainees in trauma & orthopaedics (T&O) to characterise the factors that affect core surgical trainees’ access operating theatre for training. There were significant reported difficulties accessing among T&O our sample. The considerable service provision demands of administrative and routine daily ward ...

Fictional stories abound where artificial intelligence gives rise to manmade servants that make our lives a holiday (or a nightmare). Naturally, the optimist has a strong motive to ask: How might we design and implement an artificial servant? We regularly operate under the notion that one agent helps another by doing something for the other. However, the story behind this is much more complicat...