BACKGROUND The endotracheal tube (ETT) cuff-leak test (CLT) has been proposed as a relatively simple, noninvasive method for detecting the presence of laryngeal edema prior to tracheal extubation. OBJECTIVE To determine the value of the CLT for predicting postextubation stridor (PES) among medical and surgical patients, and to assess the impact of certain variables on the incidence of PES. ...

Despite its dominance in the field of teaching English as a second/foreign language, implementation Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach continues to be challenging and problematic. A similar set constraints – including but not limited challenges related educational cultures, contextual conceptual factors, lack authentic materials facilities have been reported factors hindering CLT im...

Experimental tests of a composite concrete-cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor system were conducted. The floor system was constructed with 5-ply CLT panels (6.75 in. thick) made composite with a 2.25 in. thick reinforced concrete topping slab. Four series of tests were performed using different specimen configurations and laboratory testing methods. Tests included: (1) Comparative one-way bendi...

Studies in populations of European descent show longer plasma clot lysis times (CLT) in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) than in controls. No data are available on the association between CVD risk factors and fibrinolytic potential in black Africans, a group undergoing rapid urbanisation with increased CVD prevalence. We investigated associations between known CVD risk factors and CLT...

Although Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been widely advocated by a considerable number of applied linguists and English language teachers, its implementation in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts has encountered a number of difficulties.  Reviewing the literature suggests that one of the reasons for unsuccessful implementation of CLT may be neglect of learners' beliefs in t...

The Central Limit Theorem (CLT) is an important result in statistics and econometrics and econometricians often rely on the CLT for inference in practice. Even though different conditions apply to different kinds of data, the CLT results are believed to be generally available for a range of situations. This paper illustrates the use of the Kullback-Leibler Information (KLI) measure to assess ho...

In our dissertation we derive the Central Limit Theorems (CLTs) with the remainder terms for the renewal and cumulative processes. A renewal process based on the sequence of random variables {X n } is defined in one of the following ways: 1) 2) N 2 (t) = number of n such that Sn $ t, 3) N 3 (t) = Sup{n: Sn $ t}, where Sn = Xl + ... + X n. If X n > 0 then all three definitions are identical. In ...

For stochastic processes {Xt : t ∈ E}, we establish sufficient conditions for the empirical process based on {IXt≤y − P (Xt ≤ y) : t ∈ E, y ∈ R} to satisfy the CLT uniformly in t ∈ E, y ∈ R. Corollaries of our main result include examples of classical processes where the CLT holds, and we also show that it fails for Brownian motion tied down at zero and E = [0, 1]. ∗Research supported in part b...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to find the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) phenotype in adolescent euthyroid girls with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT). DESIGN This was a prospective case-control study as part of an ongoing community-wide thyroid survey in Indian schools. METHODS One hundred and seventy-five girls with euthyroid CLT and 46 age-matched non-CLT girls underwent cli...

This paper aims to investigate the energy saving and carbon reduction performance of cross-laminated timber residential buildings in the severe cold region of China through a computational simulation approach. The authors selected Harbin as the simulation environment, designed reference residential buildings with different storeys which were constructed using reinforced concrete (RC) and cross-...