background to get more precise responses when gathering information about sensitive topics such as drug use, it is important to use the most optimal method. objectives this study was carried out to address the impact of three interview methods (street-based, household, and telephone interviews) on response pattern to sensitive and non-sensitive questions in terms of participation, disclosure an...

background: providing community-based mental health services is crucial and is an agreed plan between the iranian mental health office and the regional committee for the eastern mediterranean (affiliated with who). the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of home-visit clinical case-management services on the hospitalization rate and other clinical outcomes in patients with seve...

Benchmarking the performance for telephone-network-based speech recognition systems is hampered by two factors: lack of standardized databases for telephone network speech, and insufficient understanding of the impact of the telephone network on recognition systems. The N-TIMIT database was used in the experiments described in this paper in order to "calibrate" the effect of the telephone netwo...

VoIP(Voice over IP), so called Internet phone, provides several unique advantages, for instance, inexpensive long distance call service than the existing wire telephone network and various multimedia services from Internet network added to voice call service. This has been widely discussed and has been a research topic throughout the developed countries in the recent years. The paper is intende...

Background: Providing community-based mental health services is crucial and is an agreed plan between the Iranian Mental Health Office and the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (affiliated with WHO). The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of home-visit clinical case-management services on the hospitalization rate and other clinical outcomes in patients with seve...

DARPA and the NSF are encouraging research on active router networks. By applying these concepts to telephony we: — create a commodity, other than bandwidth, that a telephone network owner can sell, — create new businesses for both equipment manufacturers and for network providers, — provide local access with a distinct advantage over the current local operating companies, — integrate the telep...