South Africa is going through several education reforms in order to prepare more learners for challenges and success in the 21st century and beyond. A key to the success of the reforms is the quality of teachers and their teaching methods. A profound change in teacher practices is called for, which would entail theestablishment of sustainable enabling teachingand learning environments and condi...

A hierarchical framework is proposed to address the issues of modeling different type of words in keyword spotting (KWS). Keyword models are built at various levels according to the availability of training set resources for each individual word. The proposed approach improves the performance of KWS even when no training speech is available for the keywords. It also suggests an easier way to co...

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a Department of Finance and Management Science, College of Business, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, United States b Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China c School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China d Key Laboratory ofMathematical Economics of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Un...

background: sexual health is part of psychological health and the occurrence of any sexual health –associated disorder could have profound effect on physical health. more than half of the cases of sexual problems which can destroy the marital relationship and family life originate from lack of knowledge or insufficient awareness and incorrect attitude toward the sexual relationship. objective: ...

abstract background and aims: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is the most prevalent disorder in children. due to the importance of the disorder in children and its complications, this study aimed to assess the relation of the disorder with demographic factors in students of schools located in the hamadan city, west of iran. methods: in this study, 1000 students were selected thr...