The International Shopping List Test (ISLT) is a measure of verbal learning and memory, developed specifically for use in people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. In this report, we describe two studies that examined the ISLT's ability to detect memory impairment and memory decline in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) from a range of cultural and linguistic backgroun...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of recall on estimation of non-fatal injury rates in Tanzania. DESIGN Retrospective population based survey. SETTING Eight branches in an urban area and six villages in a relatively prosperous rural area in Tanzania. SUBJECTS Individuals of all ages living in households selected by cluster sampling. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Estimated non-fatal inju...

background: according to the available evidence and experiments, problem-based learning is one of the most successful methods to achieve higher educational objectives. in this method, the discussion about the medical sybjects to be learned by the students is based on a real clinical case and participation of the students. various advantages and disadvantages of this method have been addressed i...

In order to provide tourists with better tourism services, a system method of personal information recommendation platform based on deep learning is proposed. The includes noise reduction autoencoder, feature extraction module, data preprocessing calculation expert evaluation result output customer feedback and storage module. the present invention enables obtain conveniently quickly through sc...

Although filling the gap in reading comprehension gained momentum with the rise of the top-down approach, Vygotsky’ concept of scaffolding and the dual code  theory provided a strong support for the use of paratext to enhance comprehension. Scaffolding is dependent on other-regulation, one type of which is object-regulation. From this vantage-point, various types of paratext can function as sou...