Language proficiency in bilingualism, and hence bilingual aphasia, is a multifaceted phenomenon: influenced by variables such as age of onset, literacy, usage patterns, and emotional valence. Although the majority of the world and growing US population is bilingual, relatively little is known about the best practices for language therapy in bilingual aphasia. This systematic review was undertak...

Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) has started to find more applications in medical education research. Unfortunately, misconceptions such as lower cognitive load always being beneficial to learning and the continued use of dated concepts and methods can result in improper applications of CLT principles in medical education design and research. This review outlines how CLT has evolved and presents a s...

We analyze the fluctuations of incomplete U-statistics over a triangular array independent random variables. give criteria for Central Limit Theorem (CLT, short) to hold in sense that we prove an appropriately scaled and centered version U-statistic converges normal variable. Our method proof relies on martingale CLT. An application, CLT hitting time walks graphs, will be presented Löwe Terveer...

BACKGROUND Preventive services and health promotion in terms of lifestyle counselling provided through primary health care (PHC) has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality in the population. Health professionals in general are positive about and willing to develop a health-promoting and/or preventive role. A number of obstacles hindering PHC staff from addressing lifestyle issues have ...

ISSUE The transfer of a patient from one clinician to another is a high-risk event. Errors are common and lead to patient harm. More effective methods for learning how to give and receive sign-out is an important public health priority. EVIDENCE Performing a handoff is a complex task. Trainees must simultaneously apply and integrate clinical, communication, and systems skills into one time-li...

In this article we study asymptotic properties of weighted samples produced by the auxiliary particle filter (APF) proposed by Pitt and Shephard (1999a). Besides establishing a central limit theorem (CLT) for smoothed particle estimates, we also derive bounds on the L p error and bias of the same for a finite particle sample size. By examining the recursive formula for the asymptotic variance o...

For stochastic processes {Xt : t ∈ E}, we establish sufficient conditions for the empirical process based on {IXt≤y − P (Xt ≤ y) : t ∈ E, y ∈ R} to satisfy the CLT uniformly in t ∈ E, y ∈ R. Corollaries of our main result include examples of classical processes where the CLT holds, and we also show that it fails for Brownian motion tied down at zero and E = [0, 1]. ∗Research supported in part b...

This article argues that the dominance of CLT has led to the neglect of one crucial aspect of language pedagogy, namely the context in which that pedagogy takes place. It argues that it is time to replace CLT as the central paradigm in language teaching with a Context Approach which places context at the heart of the profession. The article argues that such a shift is already taking place, and ...

The first part of this research is comprised of an experimental study to investigate the comparative usefulness of the Grammar Translation Method and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach in teaching English at the intermediate level. A pre-test, post-test group design was used to measure achievement and attitude of the students. The second part of this research is comprised of a surve...

Background and Purpose: Candida species are the most opportunistic fungi affecting the nails and resulting in onychomycosis. In this study, we identified and evaluated in-vitro susceptibility of the recovered isolates against fluconazole (FLC), voriconazole (VRC), and clotrimazole (CLT) using the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) M27-A3 document. Materials and Method...