... Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). Spheresupports several data compression formats in a variety of standard and specialized formats.Sphereworkswellforsampleddatafiles,butislimitedformoregeneralspeechdatafiles. ... towards“self-describing”file formats that include information about the names, data types, and layout of all data in the file. (For example, this permits programs to retrieve data by name.)There are many popular file formats, ... formats, and various programs are available for converting amongthem (e.g., SOX). For speech sampled data, the most important file format is Sphere (from NIST),which is used in the speech databases...
... required for medical chart release forms, and Social Securitynumbers were required for payment after comple-tion of interviews. These items were on a singleform, and most people returned release formsquickly ... daily for fear ofdependence and increased tolerance also inhibitedasthma management.Interventions forhealth professionals requiretremendous time and effort.(See clinical notes section for ... staff, volunteers, and children with asthma and their parents, providededucation for physicians and other professionals,as well as parents, children, and neighborhoodvolunteers and staff.ReferencesNational...
... policy, health care, and sex education in schools and at home.Figure 2:Teen Birth Rates,Developed Nations1950-2005 ACT for Youth Center of Excellence 6 www.actforyouth.netA New Vision for ... regarding access to health information and to reproductive health services. Normalizing adolescent sexuality in the context of American society and culture means conceiving and discussing sexuality ... norms regarding access to health information and to reproductive health services.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to acknowledge Sarah Miller and Erin Wheeler for their help with manuscript...
... of Excellence for Head Start and Oral Health. n Collaborate in efforts to update data collection and upgrade training and technical assistance activities for Early Head Start and Head Start ... Start and Head Start. Both pediatric dentists and dental hygienists expressed the need for more standardized and effective collection of datafor this population in order to quantify oral health ... Strategies to Improve Oral Health Education Efforts: n Develop and support local health events that draw attention to oral healthand frame it as a social and public health issue. n Support...
... Materials and Health: Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11809.html 14 EARTH MATERIALS AND HEALTH presented for the public health community and basic ... Materials and Health: Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health Committee on Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health, National Research Council 4 EARTH MATERIALS AND ... betweenagencies that collect healthdata will be required, andhealthdata from thedifferent agencies and offices will need to be merged and made availablein formats that are compatible with...
... available for natural gas extraction, although only around 1.4% of this area (or less than 0.5% of the total forest area) would be taken for use in well pad development. The use of land for gas development ... more accuracy for placing the perforations. Perforation is not required for open hole completions. Support to the identification of potential risks for the environment and human health arising ... comprehensive and centralised data on well failure and incident rates, and the need for further research on a number of possible effects including long term ones. Greater weight was given to information...
... potential forhealthanddevelopmentand to reduce the burden of avoidable disease and mortality. The intention is to encourage healthy growth anddevelopmentand to reduce illness and mortality, ... champion for health, harnessing all those forces that are in a position to support the healthanddevelopment of children and adolescents. 86. The health sector can and should be a catalyst for ... areas for action 24. Strategic directions for improving the healthanddevelopment of children and adolescents sets forth seven priorities for WHO’s global work in child and adolescent health. ...
... accounting in the form and format requested by the individual, if it is readily producible in such form and format; or, if not, in a readable hard copy form or such other form and format as agreed ... form and format requested by the individual, if it is readily producible in such form and format; or, if not, in a readable electronic form and format as agreed to by the covered entity and ... 13405(c) of the Health Information Technology forEconomic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, Title XIII of Division A and Title IV of Division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment...
... the analysis of TI -data. vii MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS IN SENSORY AND CONSUMER SCIENCE Garmt B. Dijksterhuis, Ph. D. ID-DLO, Institute for Animal Science andHealth Food Science ... developed based on statistics anddata analysis. research anddevelopment with a food-technical focus psychological focus 1.2.2 Sensory and Consumer Science and Related Disciplines A brief ... of the data matrix (for modes and ways of a data matrix see Carroll and Arabie 1980). In sensory profiling experiments the assessors will be represented in the sets in the data analysis,...