b) Ubiquity of scale free networks Scale free networks exhibit the unusual property of having a finite probability of possessing nodes with a very large number of connections. Despite this, scale-free networks have been found to arise in a surprisingly wide range of real world systems from interconnection of neurons in the brain to the network of collaborations between Hollywood actors. However...

A pilot study is one of the essential stages in a research project. This paper aims to describe the importance of and steps involved in executing a pilot study by using an example of a descriptive study in primary care. The process of testing the feasibility of the project proposal, recruitment of subjects, research tool and data analysis was reported. We conclude that a pilot study is necessar...

"This article reviews the experience of two pilot projects in Bangladesh that have addressed the question of how [operations] research can be designed to foster its utilization. In a rural field experiment [begun in 1972] in Matlab subdistrict, research has demonstrated that contraceptive services, if carefully designed and properly implemented, can influence demographic dynamics even where so...

One of the key roles of a junior doctor is co-ordinating the care of their patients and communicating with different departments or specialties within the hospital. To do this, junior doctors often spend a lot of time on a daily basis contacting the hospital switchboard in order to locate a required bleep/extension/fax number, or trying to navigate an intranet based directory which can be diffi...

BACKGROUND Community service-learning (CSL) has been proposed as one way to enrich medical and dental students' sense of social responsibility toward people who are marginalized in society. AIM We developed and implemented a new CSL option in the integrated medical/dental curriculum and assessed its educational impact. METHODS Focus groups, individual open-ended interviews, and a survey wer...

TEAM Lab at Eotvos Lorand University connects tightly Informatics teacher training to real teaching practices so that: Informatics teachers can get acquainted with methods, topics, and possibilities for integrating ICT into subject areas, while teachers of different subjects would get ideas on forms of applying ICT tools to enhance subject learning. This paper describes a pilot project involvin...

this article reviews world’s experiences in providing financial services for women. countries under study include some of the developing countries islamic and non- islamic), as well as development, in which governmental or non-governmental organizations have been established to provide financial help, credits, saving and other services. their objectives, methods, activities, and programs are re...

This paper addresses the issue of learning hidden Markov model (HMM) parameters for speaker-independent continuous speech recognition. Bahl et al. [Bahl 88a] introduced the corrective training algorithm for speaker-dependent isolated word recognition. Their algorithm attempted to improve the recognition accuracy on the training data. In this work, we extend this algorithm to speaker-independent...