Coupling is a useful tool in the analysis of the mixing time of Markov chains. The basic idea is that a Markov chain that is initialized to some arbitrary distribution can be compared via coupling with another Markov chain that is initialized to the stationary distribution. The two chains then progress simultaneously, and the distance between the two chains at any time indicates how close the r...

the aim of this study was to compare three approaches of medical parasitological course. this cross sectional study carried out in 94 medical and pharmacy students. lecturer based learning, problem based learning, and combined approaches were used for teaching the parasitological course. kappa and spss16 were used to analysis. 82.9% of students were interested in lecturer based learning, 64.9% ...

abraham ungar is professor in the department of mathematicsat north dakota state university.after gaining his b.sc. (1965) and m.sc. (1967) from the hebrew university inpure mathematics and ph.d. (1973) from tel-aviv universityin applied mathematics, he held apostdoctoral position at the university of toronto (1974).ungar moved from toronto to pretoria where he held the position of asenior rese...

Dr Tony Long is Professor of Child and Family Health. A Registered Child Health Nurse, his personal research programmes are in evaluation of early intervention in health and social care services for children and families, parental coping, and clinical research on quality of life outcomes for children and families after treatment for cancer. Michael Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Social Work. A qu...

1Head Clinical Unit: Surgery, New Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa 2Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 3Private Practice, Somerset West, South Africa 4Private Practice, Bellville, South Africa 5Private Practice, George and Consultant Surgeon George Provincial Hospital, South Africa 6Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Afri...

2014;27(3) S Afr J Clin Nutr Sedibe MH,1,2 MSc, Senior Lecturer; Feeley AB,1 PhD, Honorary Research Fellow; Voorend C,3 MSc, Postgraduate Student Griffiths PL,1,4 PhD, Reader; Doak CM,3 PhD, Lecturer; Norris SA,1 PhD, Associate Professor 1MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2Fac...

1 Consultant Intensivist, Cardiff University and University of Wales Hospital Cardiff 2 Consultant Microbiologist, Cardiff University and Public Health Wales 3 Consultant Intensivist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Royal Victoria Infirmary and Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne 4 Consultant Intensivist and Acute Physician, University College London NHS Foundation Trust 5 Consultant Haemato...