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Symptom or faecal immunochemical test based referral criteria for colorectal cancer detection in symptomatic patients: a diagnostic tests study
(Biomed Central, 2018-10-25)
BackgroundSymptom based referral criteria for colorectal cancer (CRC) detection are the cornerstone of the strategy to improve prognosis in CRC. In 2017, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) updated ...
LSTM based voice conversion for laryngectomees
(International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)
This paper describes a voice conversion system designed withthe aim of improving the intelligibility and pleasantness of oe-sophageal voices. Two different systems have been built, oneto transform the spectral magnitude ...
Listening to Laryngectomees: A study of Intelligibility and Self-reportedListening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech
(International Speech Communication Association, 2018-11-23)
Oesophageal speakers face a multitude of challenges, such asdifficulty in basic everyday communication and inability to in-teract with digital voice assistants. We aim to quantify the diffi-culty involved in understanding ...
The endocannabinoid system in mental disorders: Evidence from human brain studies
(Elsevier, 2018-07-17)
Mental disorders have a high prevalence compared with many other health conditions and are the leading cause of disability worldwide. Several studies performed in the last years support the involvement of the endocannabinoid ...
Corrective Focus Detection in Italian Speech Using Neural Networks
(Óbuda University, 2018-11)
The corrective focus is a particular kind of prosodic prominence where the speaker is intended to correct or to emphasize a concept. This work develops an Artificial Cognitive System (ACS) based on Recurrent ...
Análisis de una reforma fiscal ambiental para España con devoluciones para todos los hogares
(Papeles De Economía Española, 2018)
In recent years, various international organizations have pointed out the importance of boosting energy-environmental taxation in Spain given its limited use today. In this paper we propose and analyze a reform or environmental ...
Integrating methods for ecosystem service assessment: Experiences from real world situations
(Ecosystem Services, 2018)
The Ecosystem Services (ES) concept highlights the varied contributions the environment provides to humans and there are a wide range of methods/tools available to assess ES. However, in real-world decision contexts a ...
On the use of multicriteria decision analysis to formally integrate community values into ecosystem‐based freshwater management
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2018-12-05)
Freshwater ecosystems are essential to peoples' economic, cultural, and social well-being, yet are still among the most threatened ecosystems on the planet. Consequently, a plethora of recent regulations and policies seek ...
Participatory multi-criteria decision aid: Operationalizing an integrated assessment of ecosystem services
(Ecosystem Services, 2018)
Ongoing ecosystem alterations underscore the need for ecosystem service assessment to urgently enter policy-making. Participatory methods and a systematic inclusion of stakeholders are crucial yet underdeveloped cornerstones ...
(Dis) integrated valuation – Assessing the information gaps in ecosystem service appraisals for governance support
(Ecosystem Services, 2018)
The operational challenges of integrated ecosystem service (ES) appraisals are determined by study purpose, system complexity and uncertainty, decision-makers requirements for reliability and accuracy of methods, and ...