speech language pathology in medical settings

... dipped for 10 into a flask containing one of the given xenobiotics After rinsing in running tap water, they were air-dried and stained for in a 30% hydroalcoholic solution of toluidine blue and ... workplace in medical settings The rating methods were performed against controls in absence of SPC The validity of the bioassays was previously established [17-24] In general, the SC response in corneosurfametry ... products were regular cleansing and antiseptic products used for hand hygiene in medical settings Previous studies indicated that CIM value decreased with increasing chemical alteration of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... weeks after the final speech language pathology programme session (Visit 6) for objective cough monitoring Speech Pathology treatment programme for chronic persistent cough The speech pathology programme ... through informal interview between the participant and speech pathologist at the beginning of each session Participant compliance with the speech language pathology programme was determined to ... changes in cough reflex sensitivity and cough frequency prior to, during and after a speech language pathology treatment programme for refractory cough It was hypothesised that speech language pathology...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... examines instances of good practice regarding truth-telling in medical settings in Japan The third section examines the practice of withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment in Japan ... Good practice regarding truth-telling in medical settings in Japan …………………… 136 The practice of withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment in Japan …… 142 Lawsuits in Japan on patients ... Communication in Medical Settings: with Particular Focus on End of Life Care in Japan Introduction This thesis is related to the promotion of truth-telling and effective communication in medical settings...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 16:53

... requesting, denying, introducing, apologizing, etc” (quoted in David Nunan, 1983: 65) David Nunan defined “ speech acts are simply things people through language- for example, apologizing, complaining, ... qualifying modals are used to lessening the communicating idea Chapter 3: Application 3.1 Language used in business letters in term of speech acts In order to investigate language used in business ... analyzes language used in business letters in term of speech acts However, we only research the speech acts in business letters on surface There are a large number kinds of letters written in business,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:12

... ambiguity in finding the best matching string The performance can further be improved if the acoustic matching information used in the recognition process is incorporated into the language decoding ... is obtained by expanding all the non-terminals into the corresponding vocabulary words and each word in terms of phonetic units Finally a matching between the string of phones describing the ... non-terminals The Levenshtein distance (Levenshtein, 1966) between two strings is defined as the minimum number of editing operations (substitutions, deletions, and insertions) for transforming one...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... following is a road map of the remaining chapters of this thesis In Chapter 2, we discuss the domain knowledge and related work in ischemic stroke imaging and traumatic brain injury imaging In Chapter ... the challenges in applying to the medical imaging domain We will end the chapter with a discussion of using existing techniques in annotating medical images and their limitations In Chapter 5, ... data Although boosting often yields better accuracy than bagging, it is more likely to over-fit the training data Since training data in the medical domain is usually limited, bagging is more suitable...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:24

... in daily intercultural talks This chapter also suggests further research to gain a deeper insight into humor in intercultural communication, especially in situated English teaching and learning ... Tell TEll hhh  Indicate intonation that is a falling or final, not necessary at the end of the sentence Indicate the rising tone, not necessary a question Indicate “continuing” intonation, not ... Having a sense of humor helps us a lot in socializing Trachtenberg (1979) indicates that humor is indispensable in everyday socialization such as greeting someone, introducing oneself, leaving...

Ngày tải lên: 18/11/2016, 23:47

... refineries, chemical and pyrotechnical industries, several airports, major highways, shipping and public gatherings all need to be included in the risk assessment regarding possible major incidents ... casualties, most of them teenagers The following investigation revealed certain short-comings regarding the medical response, recognizing the need of a regional point of contact ("POC") and command and ... officer (RTiB) (RN, specialized in emergency care combined with further training in disaster medicine as well as in depth knowledge about the available regional medical resources) and a back-up...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... Mediators of cytokine-induced insulin resistance in obesity and other inflammatory settings Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 2002, 5:377-383 15 Marik PE, Raghavan M: Stress-hyperglycemia, insulin and immunomodulation ... pre-existing increased insulin resistance and dysfunction of beta cells Insulin resistance is present in the acutely ill [13,15,18,28] in different intensity, but the factors determining the extent ... and immunomodulation in sepsis Intensive Care Med 2004, 30:748-756 16 Aljada A, Ghanim H, Assian E, Dandona P: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibits insulin-induced increase in endothelial nitric...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... ventilator as well as changes in cardiac index during PLR were examined An increase in cardiac index of 10% or more during PLR predicted an increase in cardiac index following VE of 15% or more with ... Australas 2005, 17:193-199 Boulain T, Achard JM, Teboul JL, Richard C, Perrotin D, Ginies G: Changes in BP induced by passive leg raising predict response to fluid loading in critically ill patients ... remained unchanged during PLR The changes in SV compared with stage one induced by both PLR and VE were significantly higher in the responders compared with the non-responders The SV increased in...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... clinical data were obtained using the regional ICU patient data warehouse Data sources include an electronic patient information system (Quantitative Sentinel; GE-Marquette Medical Systems Inc, ... mortality rates in patients presenting with hypernatraemia than in those acquiring the disorder (43% versus 39%) [12] Similarly, in a retrospective five-year review of a medical ICU in France, Bennani ... in the CHR are managed in ICUs under the care of the Department of Critical Care Medicine These ICUs are closed units, staffed by fully trained intensivists and currently include one 24-bed medical- surgical...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... on stroke incidence There are insufficient data in medical ICU patients, but in CTS patients it is clear that the stroke incidence is increased in patients with AF Besides AF, a proinflammatory ... understanding of AF in critically ill patients Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests References Pinski SL: Atrial fibrillation in the surgical intensive ... 32:890-891 Reinelt P, Karth GD, Geppert A, Heinz G: Incidence and type of cardiac arrhythmias in critically ill patients: a single center experience in a medical cardiological ICU Intensive Care...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... copywriter The Language of Airlines’ Advertising Slogans Page 14 Business Advertising Business advertising is often said to be invisible, because unless one is actively involved in some business, he ... different point of view With him, “register reflects the degree of technical specification in the language of economics, banking and finance, international business, advertising, medicine, information ... compare the advertising language in English and that in other languages, e.g “Advertising language: A pragmatic approach to advertisements in Britain and Japan” by Keiko Tanaka (1994) In Vietnam, some...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54

... attain by playing the computer simulation Students had to keep in mind their purpose for playing the simulation Otherwise, they would tend to indulge themselves in simply playing Also, since ... computer technology Foreign language training will not always take place in a traditional classroom With the help of a setting such as a multimedia lab, foreign language training will be more efficient ... built the town according to their pace of learning What are the implications of the Communicative Language Teaching Approach in a multimedia computer language lab in teaching? First, the choice...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... encouraged them to continue reading in English about their topics of interest even while they are not in school When they find the joy of reading and learn from the reading, learning will never be ... the Internet In the computer lab, I have noticed most of the students only browsed web sites in Chinese I wanted them to explore the enormous information available in English They needed to print ... they were interested in environmental topics, they should continue to read more and find out more If they were not interested in the topic, they should find other topics In order for students...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... awareness of how individuals and groups are thinking and feeling within his class He actively responds to this in his planning and working methods and in building effective working relationships ... exercise” Discipline is teaching and learning, it is not punishment Discipline is two-dimensional, for it involves both imposed and self discipline Penny Ur in ‘A Course in Language Teaching’ (1996) ... useful to think of the definition of motivation in terms of the motivated learner: one who is willing or even eager to invest effort in learning activities and to progress Interestingly, in the search...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06

... feelings, identities, events, it is also a way of pointing to, presupposing or bringing into the present context beliefs, feelings, identities, events According to the linguistic relativity principle, ... language and slang overlap to a certain extent Both are informal, and are more common in spoken than in written language You might use either when speaking or writing to a friend; when speaking ... begins by being poured in its molten state into language The verbal image or the phonetic word, just because language is originally an action possesses the value of a sentence, nouns, representing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:57

... understanding of the reading process, including reading failure Since the concept of learning disability was first outlined by Samuel Kirk (1963), investigators have concentrated on identifying the ... read: Thinking and learning about print The Reading Research and Education Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign August, D., & Hakuta, K (1997) Improving schooling for language- minority ... development of reading in English and Italian in bilingual children Applied Psycholinguistics, 22, 479–507 Doctor, E A., & Klein, D (1992) Phonological processing in bilingual word recognition In R J Harris...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20

... including rape, mass rape, and the forced insertion of objects into a woman’s vagina A woman or girl who sustains this injury is rendered incontinent of urine and/or feces Together with the horrible ... surgical repair, counseling, and other services, needlessly suffering the lifelong consequences of this injury The upcoming meeting in Addis Ababa is the first-ever gathering of individuals and organizations ... by querying individuals and organizations working on this issue, who were identified both through extensive networking and through Internet searching In particular, the Google search engine (http://www.google.com)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20