BACKGROUND Afghanistan has struggled with several decades of well-documented conflict, increasing the importance of providing emergency services to its citizens. However, little is known about the country's capacity to provide such care. METHODS Three native-speaking Afghan-American physicians performed an assessment of emergency care via combined quantitative and qualitative survey tools. Ho...

In this work we consider a three-component normal mixture model in which one component is known to have mean zero and the other two contaminating components have a nonnegative and a nonpositive mean respectively, while all three components share a common unknown variance parameter. One potential application of this model may be in prioritizing statistical scores obtained in biological experimen...

the aim of this study was to compare the effects of cognitive-attentional and cognitive-motor load on the performance of bimanual coordination skill. 31 female students (mean age 25+2 years) from shahid beheshti university attending were selected voluntarily and divided randomly into three groups: single group (n=11), cognitive group (n=10) and cognitive-motor group (n=10). single group partici...

Controversy has not been yet resolved among researchers in second language research over the pedagogical efficacy of feedback in enhancing various features of learners’ writing skill. Research findings highlighting the significance of interactive tasks and learners’ engagement in improving the learning process stimulated the present study, the purpose of which was to explore the effect of task-...

Adults ( N = 54, 80.78 ± 6.08 years) who reported falling during the previous 12 months participated in a 12-week wobble board training program with internal focus or external (EF) instructions. Verbal manipulation checks were performed after sessions as self-report of attentional foci used. The percentage which participants using an EF (EF SR ) was subsequently calculated. Mean velocity and me...