abstract background: participation of woman in decision-making processes is one of the key indicators of an appropriate relationship between a woman and the health care professionals. this study aimed to recognize the factors facilitating respect for woman’s decision-making in spontaneous birth. materials and methods: this paper employed a meta-synthesis on articles published in four biomedical...

This paper describes ILSP and INNOETICS Speech Synthesis System entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2013. A description of the underlying system and techniques used is provided, as well as information about the voice building process and discussion on the obtained evaluation results. Extra focus will be given on the new techniques we used this year in comparison to our previous participations, and...

In the costtable approach to logic design, a given function is realized by selecting functions from a table and combining them. Associated with each function is a cost, and the goal is to find, among all realizations, the one of least cost. We show an extension to the costtable approach in which functions are combined using a multiplexer, with the goal to find an arrangement of the functions th...

background and purpose: consideringbackground and purpose: considering the importance and necessity of competency-based education at a global level and with respect to globalization and the requirement of minimum competencies in medical fields, medical education communities and organizations worldwide have tried to determine the competencies, present frameworks and education models to respond t...

To construct a natural singing voice synthesis system, it is important to adequately control acoustic parameters such as fundamental frequency (F0), phoneme duration, and spectrum information in the synthesis method, based on comparative analysis between spokenand singing-voices. This paper proposes a transformation from read speech into singing-voice using STRAIGHT. This method is composed of ...

The question of what do to with a body qualitative study reports on particular topic has attracted many nurses the promise meta-synthesis. Conceptualizing it as potentially analogous quantitative meta-analysis, they feel allure generating conclusive evidence that includes kinds subject and experiential phenomena explicitly written out both population-based clinical measurement studies. However,...

BACKGROUND The syntheses of multiple qualitative studies can pull together data across different contexts, generate new theoretical or conceptual models, identify research gaps, and provide evidence for the development, implementation and evaluation of health interventions. This study aims to develop a framework for reporting the synthesis of qualitative health research. METHODS We conducted ...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews of qualitative and quantitative evidence can provide a rich understanding of complex phenomena. This type of review is increasingly popular, has been used to provide a landscape of existing knowledge, and addresses the types of questions not usually covered in reviews relying solely on either quantitative or qualitative evidence. Although several typologies of synt...

BACKGROUND This study describes an approach for the use of a specific type of qualitative evidence synthesis in the matrix approach, a mixed studies reviewing method. The matrix approach compares quantitative and qualitative data on the review level by juxtaposing concrete recommendations from the qualitative evidence synthesis against interventions in primary quantitative studies. However, typ...