b a c k g r o u n d & aim: today, one of the leading causes of pathogenicity and mortality in patients undergoing hemodialysis is their failure to follow the treatment plan. the present research was con- ducted to compare effects of patient-centered  education with family-centered  education on adher- ence with the treatment program. methods & materials: this clinical trial was performed betwee...

On April 2, 2012 the Eindhoven University of Technology published the first adaptive PhD thesis [4] describing the research on the adaptation language and engine GALE, and served (adaptively) by the GALE engine. The aim of the this research was twofold: to make the authoring of adaptive documents feasible without much technical knowledge, and to create an adaptation and user modeling service th...

AIM To describe the development and testing of a monitoring model with quantitative indicators or progress markers that could measure the progress of individual hospitals in the implementation of kangaroo mother care (KMC). METHODS Three qualitative data sets in the larger research programme on the implementation of KMC of the MRC Research Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies i...

The aim of the demo is threefold. First, it introduces the current version of the annotation tool for discourse relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank 3.0. Second, it presents the discourse relations in the treebank themselves, including new additions in comparison with the previous release. And third, it shows how to search in the treebank, with focus on the discourse relations.

Background To eliminate new pediatric HIV infections, interventions that facilitate adherence, including those that minimize stigma, enhance social support, and mitigate the influence of poverty, will likely be required in addition to combination antiretroviral therapy (ART). We examined the relationship between partner testing and infant outcome in a prevention of parent-to-child transmission ...

Different initiatives are initiated to utilize ICT to maintain and develop democracy. Democracy models are developed to explain differences between different democracies. This paper reports from a case study where a webbased discussion board is developed and implemented. The findings indicate that politicians and citizens add support to different democracy models by their contributions to the w...

Data fusion is the final step of a typical data integration process, after schematic conflicts have been overcome and after duplicates have been correctly identified. We present the relational data fusion system FuSem, which uses schema mappings and information about duplicates to decide what to fuse, i.e., which tuples to merge into one. The aspect emphasized by the demo is how to fuse the dup...

In the demo, we demonstrate a mobile food recognition system with Fisher Vector and liner one-vs-rest SVMs which enable us to record our food habits easily. In the experiments with 100 kinds of food categories, we have achieved the 79.2% classification rate for the top 5 category candidates when the ground-truth bounding boxes are given. The prototype system is open to the public as an Android-...