In two eye-tracking experiments, the effects of salience in accent training and speech accentedness on spoken-word recognition were investigated. Salience was expected to increase a stimulus' prominence and therefore promote learning. A training-test paradigm was used on native German participants utilizing an artificial German accent. Salience was elicited by two different criteria: production...

This study examined the relationship between health anxiety and searching for health information online, a phenomenon dubbed 'cyberchondria'. The majority of those with 'high' (n=46) and 'low' (n=36) levels of health anxiety reported seeking health information online. However, those with higher levels of health anxiety sought online health information more frequently, spent longer searching, an...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based medicine (EBM) skills are invaluable tools for residents and practicing physicians. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of small-group learning models in teaching fundamental EBM skills. METHODS The intervention consisted of an EBM bootcamp divided into four 2-hour sessions across 4-week rotations. Residents worked in small groups of three to f...

‎given a finite non-cyclic group $g$‎, ‎call $sigma(g)$ the smallest number of proper subgroups of $g$ needed to cover $g$‎. ‎lucchini and detomi conjectured that if a nonabelian group $g$ is such that $sigma(g) < sigma(g/n)$ for every non-trivial normal subgroup $n$ of $g$ then $g$ is textit{monolithic}‎, ‎meaning that it admits a unique minimal normal subgroup‎. ‎in this paper we show how thi...

BACKGROUND There is consensus that the treatment of schizophrenia should combine anti-psychotic medication and psychosocial interventions in order to address complex social, economic and health needs. It is recommended that family therapy or support; community-based rehabilitation; and/or self-help and support groups should be provided for people with schizophrenia in low and middle-income coun...

In this paper, we introduce the  probabilistic normed groups. Among other results, we investigate the continuityof inner automorphisms of a group and the continuity of left and right shifts in probabilistic group-norm. We also study midconvex functions defined  on probabilistic normed groups and  give  some results about locally boundedness of such  functions.

‎This paper develops a basic theory of $H$-groups‎. ‎We‎ ‎introduce a special quotient of $H$-groups and‎ ‎extend some algebraic constructions of topological groups to the category‎ ‎of H-groups and H-maps and then present a functor from this category to the category of quasitopological groups‎.

In this note we discuss some symmetry groups as nice examples of group extensions. We begin by a short general discussion of symmetry groups. An isometry of R is a distancepreserving bijection of R. For examples of isometries, translations by a vector, rotations about a point, and reflections about a hyperplane are all isometries. Let Isom(R) be the set of all isometries of R. This is a group u...