Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300-year history. In this paper, we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems ...in anthologies of Waka poems. One reasonable approach would be to arrange all possible pairs of poems in two anthologies in decreasing order of similarity values, and to scrutinize high-ranked pairs by human effort. The means of defining similarity between Waka poems plays a key role in this approach. In this paper, we generalize existing (dis)similarity measures into a uniform framework, called
string resemblance systems, and using this framework, we develop new similarity measures suitable for finding similar poems. Using the measures, we report successful results in finding instances of poetic allusion between two anthologies Kokin-Sh
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With the revision of the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) in 1997, the Clinical Trial Center was established at Saga University Hospital in 1999, where clinical research coordinators (CRC) of nurses and ...pharmacists have been carrying out support for clinical trials since June 2000. At present, two pharmacists, two nurses, and three clerical work assistants support the execution of clinical trials; however, in recent years the number of clinical trial commissions has been gradually decreasing. On this occasion, in order to carry out even higher quality and smoother clinical trials, we conducted a questionnaire targeting the sponsors of clinical trials (head monitors) to evaluate this hospital's system for the execution of clinical trials from the sponsor's standpoint. Moreover, for the purpose of comparison with the systems of other institutions, the same questionnaire was conducted on two other hospitals-the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan and the Social Insurance Shimonoseki Kousei Hospital. The problems of the clinical trial execution in our team turned out lack of knowledge concerning GCP and our complex system from the result of the questionnaire.
In this report, we assessed the impact of user interface for the all-digital system with secure communication in a practical health examination center. The data amounts of communication are about 2 ...times larger than the non-secure case because of the encryption and the authentication. However, using the multi-task parallel processing and the IC smart card as a private key, we showed that the enduser did not notice the difference of response through questionnaires. In addition, this report discusses some problems of user interface, for example, the GUI of mouse and icon could not always support speedy operations and too much simplification of operation would cause the learning difficulty.
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