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Streamlining digital speech tests in Latin America and Africa [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Abstract Background Digital speech assessments are increasingly recognized as promising tools for identifying early indicators of cognitive decline and dementia. These solutions are cost‐effective, objective, and automated, offering potential to address global disparities in clinical evaluations. However, most available resources and findings originate
Garcia A, Ferrante F, Pérez G, Welford A, Pelella N, Caccia M, Johann F.   +6 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Factors Associated With <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> Infection Among Pregnant Women Admitted for Delivery in Selected Hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]

Biomed Res Int
Toxoplasmosis is asymptomatic in infected individuals; however, infections acquired during pregnancy pose a significant risk of the development of congenital parasitosis, leading to poor pregnancy outcomes and various degrees of chorioretinitis later in life. This study was therefore designed to determine the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and its
Liponda M, Ng Weshemi S, Munisi D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Speech timing metrics as cross‐linguistic markers of Alzheimer's and cognitive decline: Evidence from Kiswahili, Spanish, and Portuguese speakers [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Abstract Background Speech and language assessments are central to research on cognitive decline and Alzheimer's dementia (AD). Relevant measures support screening, diagnostic, monitoring, phenotyping, and prognostic procedures in a non‐invasive, automatable, cost‐efficient fashion.
Garcia A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Informal Instant Translation in the Tanzanian Courts: Law Professionals’ Perceptions on the Efficacy of English versus Kiswahili in Adjudication of Justice [PDF]

International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse, 2020
It is widely known that language plays a fundamental role in the administration of justice. Court languages in Tanzania are Kiswahili and English. The English language is used predominantly for recording and writing of judgments in the Subordinate and ...
Simon Mlundi
doaj  

Understanding and Willingness to participate in Dementia Clinical trials in Kenya: An Ethnographic Study [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Abstract Background Advancements in dementia research are in part contingent on participation in clinical research. Clinical trials can help researchers determine if new drugs, devices, or diagnostic procedures for dementia are safe and effective. However, little is known about clinical trials for dementia in resource constrained settings such as Kenya.
Bosire E, Kamau L, Udeh‐Momoh C, Shah J, Blackmon K, Kiio C, Meier I, Narayan V, Nesic‐Taylor O, Merali Z.   +9 more
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Measuring Safety: The Lifetime Sense of Safety Scale in Kenyan Adults [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Abstract Background Safety is central to brain health; yet, there are currently no tools to assess perceived safety. Here, we describe preliminary psychometric data from a novel Lifetime Sense of Safety (LSS) scale in healthy Kenyan adults. The LSS evaluates self‐perception of safety across childhood and adulthood settings, cumulatively referred to as “
Njogu A, Gitere A, Muyela L, Onyancha C, Kamau L, Muchungi K, Ajalo C, Musili L, Shah J, Maina R, Merali Z, Udeh‐Momoh C, Blackmon K.   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Multilingual Education and Interference: Written Ungrammatical Tag-switching Among Pre-service Teachers of English Language [PDF]

, 2016
This research aims to: (1) show the ungrammaticality of pre-service teachers\u27 (Bachelor III students\u27) written tag-switching models and this is disapproving since these subjects are English teachers-to-be.
Ndayizeye, O. (Oscar)
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A computerized test of speed of language comprehension unconfounded by literacy [PDF]

, 2001
A computerised version of the Silly Sentences task developed for use with children (Baddeley et al, 1995) is found to be equivalent to the pencil-and-paper version from the SCOLP Test (Baddeley et al, 1992) with UK undergraduates, and is usable by a ...
Alcock, Baddeley, Baddeley, Cohen, Collins, Gardner, Hinton-Bayre, Papagno, Raven, Strupp   +9 more
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Exploring a Forward Design Dimension in the design of school-based Kiswahili teaching syllabi for primary schools in Uganda

Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2019
In Uganda, delays in teaching and learning of Kiswahili in primary schools have been experienced since their establishment in the education systems in the 1920s.
Jjingo, Caesar , Visser, Marianna
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Bantu lexical reconstruction [PDF]

, 2016
Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the earliest days of the discipline. In this chapter a historical overview is provided of the principal scholarly contributions to that field of study.
Bastin, Yvonne, Bostoen, Koen
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