Word segmentation is the first and obligatory task for every NLP. For inflectional languages like English, French, Dutch,.. their word boundaries are simply assumed to be whitespaces or punctuations. Whilst in various Asian languages, including Chinese and Vietnamese, whitespaces are never used to determine the word boundaries, so one must resort to such higher levels of information as: informa...

background: one of the important aspects of hospital preparedness in disasters is its rapid early warning system. in this study, the activation of early warning system was evaluated under the monitoring of disasters workgroup of the ministry of health based on the national program of “hospitals preparedness in disasters” in shahid motahari hospital.  materials and methods: the sample was compos...

introduction: hospital information system (his) is a computerized system which is used as an electronic tool for patient information management and plays a significant role in providing quality health care services. therefore, his users' satisfaction about the quality of the services offered is crucial in assessing and more importantly improving the technical aspects of the system. on the other...

Regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have used public private partnership model to improve their health facilities. Public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. Moheb hospital is the first Iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. The ...

In the last three decades many developing and middle-income nations' health care systems have been financed via out-of-pocket payments by individuals. User fees charges, however, may not be the best approach or thenmost equitable approach to finance and/or reform health services in developing nations. This study investigates the status of Vietnam's current health system as a result of implement...

introduction: the risk of inappropriate decision making would be minimized if the managers are timely provided with accurate and adequate information. obviously, hospital information system (his) plays an important role in today's rapidly changing organizations. this study was performed to assess the viewpoints of managers and network operators about the effect of his on the performance and pro...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of the hospital information system (HIS) on nurses' satisfaction in Iranian public hospitals and to examine the moderating effect of computer literacy. The study population consisted of nurses working in public hospitals in Iran. A sample of 385 Iranian public hospitals was surveyed and a total of 1912 questionnaires were collected over 9 months. The a...

This paper summarises the findings of a series of articles which evaluate the impact of State-implemented voluntary health insurance (VHI) on the Vietnamese health system. The results are generally positive with clear equity gains in terms of utilisation and expenditures, and no evidence of consumer moral hazard. However VHI appears to negatively affect the quality of care, which patients trade...

This paper represents the first research attempt to estimate the probabilities of Vietnamese patients falling into destitution due to financial burdens occurring during a curative hospital stay. The study models risk against such factors as level of insurance coverage, residency status of patient, and cost of treatment, among others. The results show that very high probabilities of destitution,...

We describe the University of Maryland machine translation systems submitted to the IWSLT 2015 French-English and Vietnamese-English tasks. We built standard hierarchical phrase-based models, extended in two ways: (1) we applied novel data selection techniques to select relevant information from the large French-English training corpora, and (2) we experimented with neural language models. Our ...