Introduction: Sniffin’ Sticks smell identification test is a tool used for evaluation of olfactory function but the results are culture-dependent. It relies on the subject’s familiarity to the odorant and descriptors. This study aims to develop the Malaysian version of Sniffin’ Sticks smell identification test suitable for local population usage. Materials and Methods:   The o...

This study described the San Diego Odor Identification Test (SDOIT) reliability and compared the SDOIT and the Brief Smell Identification Test (B-SIT). Ninety participants aged 50-70 years completed this 2-visit olfaction study. During visit 1, the SDOIT and B-SIT were administered according to standard protocols. Three weeks later, participants returned to retake the SDOIT. The SDOIT score was...

INTRODUCTION Hazardous drinking is characterized by decisions to engage in excessive or risky patterns of alcohol consumption. Levels of impulsivity and behavioral approach and inhibition may differ in hazardous drinkers and nonhazardous drinkers. A comparison of the relative levels of dimensions of impulsivity and behavioral inhibition and approach in adult men and women hazardous and nonhazar...

AIMS To investigate the screening properties of the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT) in the detection of alcohol-related problems among Nigerian university students. METHODS Eight hundred and ten students completed the AUDIT. A percentage of them were assessed for alcohol-related diagnosis with structured clinical interview. RESULTS The AUDIT at cut-off of 5 and above could...

Since 2009 LogCLEF has been the initiative within the CrossLanguage Evaluation Forum which aims at stimulating research on user behavior in multilingual environments and promote standard evaluation collections of log data. During these editions of LogCLEF, different collections of log dataset were distributed to the participants together with manually annotated query records to be used as a tra...

Introduct ion The DARPA Spoken Language communi ty has just completed the first trial evaluation of spontaneous query/response pairs in the Air Travel (ATIS) domain. 1 Our goal has been to find a methodology for evaluating correct responses to user queries. To this end, we agreed, for the first trial evaluation, to constrain the problem in several ways: D a t a b a s e A p p l i c a t i o n : C...

OBJECTIVE Alcohol misuse in college students represents a significant public health problem. Toward improving the understanding of determinants of collegiate alcohol misuse, the current study examined several dimensions of impulsivity in relation to hazardous drinking in college students. METHOD A one-way, two-group, cross-sectional design was used to compare hazardous drinkers (HZD) with soc...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the work ability and health status of security guards at a public University. METHODS a cross-sectional, descriptive, and analytical study was carried with 119 security guards. The following instruments were used: Work Ability Index (WAI), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ, short), Alcohol Use Disorders Identificati...

The baseline approach in building phonotactic language recognition systems is to characterize each language by a single phonotactic model generated from all the available languagespecific training data. When several data sources are available for a given target language, system performance can be improved using language source-dependent phonotactic models. In this case, the common practice is t...

This paper presents a system for the identification of vocal and vocal-like sounds by means of a classificatory scheme based upon their prosodic attributes. The system firstly segments examples of the sound classes in question and performs a number of analyses on these segments in order to determine their prosodic attributes. Then, it builds a classificatory scheme, which will be used to identi...