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...

describes several excellent strategies to optimize intrinsic load and minimize extraneous load. As noted by the authors, there is legitimate disagreement about the construct of germane cognitive load and how it relates to intrinsic load. However, we do not agree with Leppink and Van den Heuvel’s rejection of germane load as an independent construct. Four of six prior studies performed by Leppin...

Between October 1998 and May 2010, 158 lung transplants were performed in seven centers in Japan. Living-donor lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT) has been performed more than cadaveric lung transplantation (CLT) because of the difficulty in obtaining brain dead donors (n = 93 versus n = 65). The indications were quite unique in Japan where idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension was the most...