Statistics and information are considered the most important source of power in organizations and the source for all managerial activities. If correct and comprehensive information are readily at hand, incorrect decisions will be reduced to a minimum. The purpose of this study is to review the effects of hospital information system in regards to effectiveness of decisions made by managers. The ...

We describe our approach to build a new model of Time Expressions Recognition in Vietnamese, including a temporal reasoning tool in order to provide an automatic supervised learning system based on a socio-cultural linguistic approach. The Vietnamese morphem hôm is taken for examplification of the impediments to be solved.

INTRODUCTION Population-based studies have reported high rates of smoking prevalence among Chinese and Vietnamese American men. Although nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is effective, recommended, and accessible without prescription, these populations underuse NRT for smoking cessation. The aim of this study was to assess understanding and use of NRT and nonpharmacologic treatments among Chin...

OBJECTIVE To describe the use of episiotomy among Vietnamese-born women in Australia, including risk factors for, and pregnancy outcomes associated with, episiotomy. METHODS This population-based, retrospective cohort study included data on 598 305 singleton, term (i.e. ≥ 37 weeks' gestation) and vertex-presenting vaginal births between 2001 and 2010. Data were obtained from linked, validated...

background: hospital incident command system (hics) has been established with the mission of prevention, response, and recovery in hazards. regarding the key role of hospitals in medical management of events, the present study is aimed at investigating benefits, barriers, and limitations of applying hics in hospital. materials and methods: employing a review study, articles related to the afore...

There is a paucity of research into the perceptions of elderly Australian ethnic minorities towards public health services related to quality use of medicines. Among the six fastest growing ethnic groups in Australia, the Mandarin-speaking Chinese and Vietnamese constitute the largest elderly populations with poor English skills. This paper investigates the relationships of elderly Chinese and ...

This paper presents the development and evaluation of an HMM-based TTS system for the modern Hanoi dialect of Northern Vietnamese, a tonal language. A study of specific phonetic and prosodic features of Hanoi Vietnamese is discussed. Consequences on the design of an HMM-based TTS system are derived. Using this knowledge, a TTS system, called VTed, is then developed under the Mary TTS platform. ...

This paper describes an efficient approach to improve the accuracy of a named entity recognition system for Vietnamese. The approach combines regular expressions over tokens and a bidirectional inference method in a sequence labelling model, which achieves an overall F1 score of 89.66% on a test set of an evaluation compaign, organized in late 2016 by the Vietnamese Language and Speech Processi...

The current paper presents a system that generates tones automatically from utterances and sentences. Users were asked to speak a sentence displayed on the screen with any arbitrary tone sequence (level and falling tones is preferred). The system records the utterance, determines the correct tone sequence from the sentence, determiners syllable boundaries by force-aligning the utterance, genera...