OBJECTIVE There were two objectives. The first was to describe the Vietnamese system of occupational safety and health (OSH) and its problems. The second was to evaluate priorities among future OSH policies by the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). METHODS The Vietnamese OSH system was analysed in detail mainly based on various official documents. After the OSH problems in Vietnam were ident...

The aim of the paper is to shown that in practice, the Cold Heat diagnosis of Vietnamese Traditional Medicine is better to combining positive and negative knowledge. Based on text book and experiences of Traditional medicine practitioner we build the knowledge base combining positive knowledge and negative knowledge for Cold Heat diagnosis. Then we use the FuzzRESS A Fuzzy Rule-based Expert Sys...

BACKGROUND Health literacy refers to an individual's ability to find, understand and use health information in order to promote and maintain health. An individual's health literacy may also be influenced by the way health care organisations deliver care. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of hospital service type (public versus private) on individual health literacy. METHO...

CONTEXT A pilot study of South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who had been incarcerated in Vietnamese reeducation camps and resettled in the United States disclosed significant mental health problems associated with torture and traumatic head injury (THI). OBJECTIVES To identify structural brain alterations associated with THI and to investigate whether these deficits are associated with p...

This paper introduces a men’s studies approach to Vietnamese gender studies. It explains the value of incorporating studies of men’s lives and experiences into gender and women’s studies. It argues that the study of gendered conflict and power is necessary to understanding Vietnamese gender relations. This understanding must be contextualized within the social processes of negotiation, cooperat...

background and objectives: responsiveness is one of the hallmarks of high performance health systems. maintaining the responsiveness of health organizations at high level, require constant assessment of its situation as perceived by the patients. the accumulation of data on patients’ perception of health organizations’ responsiveness can help policy-makers in developing effective relevant strat...

Named Entity Recognition is an important task but is still relatively new for Vietnamese. It is partly due to the lack of a large annotated corpus. In this paper, we present a systematic approach in building a named entity annotated corpus while at the same time building rules to recognize Vietnamese named entities. The resulting open source system achieves an F-measure of 83%, which is better ...

We present here a methodology for fast development of ASR systems for new under-resourced languages. The resources collected for vietnamese, and the experimental results of our first vietnamese ASR system are presented. Our best system obtains 64% of word accuracy rate. The current validation of our methodology for khmer language is also described at the end of this paper.

In the objective of building intelligent searching systems for e-libraries or online bookstores, we have proposed a searching system model based on a Vietnamese language query processing component. Such document searching systems based on this model can allow users to use Vietnamese queries that represent content information as input, instead of entering keywords for searching in specific field...