Vocabulary learning is considered to be the most comprehensive and the most difficult part of language learning for all the students especially for ESP students. These students complain that vocabulary items are too many and are easily forgotten after they are learned. Mnemonic devices, a group of mental strategies, are developed to facilitate vocabulary learning and retention for such students...

Brahler CJ, Walker D. Learning scientific and medical terminology with a mnemonic strategy using an illogical association technique. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 219–224, 2008; doi:10.1152/advan.00083.2007.—For students pursuing careers in medical fields, knowledge of technical and medical terminology is prerequisite to being able to solve problems in their respective disciplines and professions. The D...

The method of loci is one, if not the most, efficient mnemonic encoding strategy. This spatial mnemonic combines the core cognitive processes commonly linked to medial temporal lobe (MTL) activity: spatial and associative memory processes. During such processes, fMRI studies consistently demonstrate MTL activity, while electrophysiological studies have emphasized the important role of theta osc...

Characterization of subsets of data is a recurring problem in data mining. We propose a keyword selection method that can be used for obtaining characterizations of clusters of data whenever textual descriptions can be associated with the data. Several methods that cluster data sets or form projections of data provide an order or distance measure of the clusters. If such an ordering of the clus...

Having an organized, structured thinking process is critical in medicine. It is through this thinking process that enables one to go through the method of history-taking, which will eventually lead to making a definitive diagnosis and all other processes that follow. The use of mnemonic has been found to be useful for this purpose. The mnemonic VITAMINSABCDEK, is a convenient and practical way ...