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The application of some second language teaching/learning principles in multimedia language design : a case study of a multimedia approach to an undergraduate course in Swahili [PDF]

, 2002
Bibliography: leaves 68-70.This study investigates aspects of the learning process that takes place in the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) classroom in the Department of Linguistics and Southern African Languages at the University of Cape Town.
Kouame, Germain Noel
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Starving for Data: Eating Disorders Prevalence and Research Gaps in Southern Africa

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Studies reporting prevalence estimates of eating disorders in Southern Africa are scarce. To fill this gap, the present Research Forum reviews existing literature on the prevalence of eating disorders, including as assessed by clinical interviews, screeners, and self‐reported behaviors, among individuals in Southern Africa.
Bernou Melisse, Jojanneke M. Bijsterbosch, Lot Sternheim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

KenSwQuAD—A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low-resource Language

ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 2023
The need for question-answering (QA) datasets in low-resource languages is the motivation of this research, leading to the development of the Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset (KenSwQuAD). This dataset is annotated from raw story texts of Swahili, a low-resource language that is predominantly spoken in eastern Africa and in other parts of ...
Barack W. Wanjawa, Lilian D. A. Wanzare, Florence Indede, Owen Mconyango, Lawrence Muchemi, Edward Ombui   +5 more
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Embedding-Based Speaker Adaptive Training of Deep Neural Networks

, 2017
An embedding-based speaker adaptive training (SAT) approach is proposed and investigated in this paper for deep neural network acoustic modeling. In this approach, speaker embedding vectors, which are a constant given a particular speaker, are mapped ...
Cui, Xiaodong, Goel, Vaibhava, Saon, George   +2 more
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Self‐completed patient‐reported outcome measures in adults with epilepsy: A review

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Epilepsy affects 65 million people worldwide, and is a World Health Organization priority disease as highlighted in their 2022–2031 Intersectoral Global Action Plan (IGAP) on Epilepsy and other Neurological Disorders. IGAP's objectives include improving epilepsy treatment and care.
Alison L. Conquest, Terence J. O'Brien, Patrick Kwan, Jacqueline A. French, Charles B. Malpas, Emma C. Foster   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oh, you, bird [PDF]

, 2003
Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of the Swahili communities’ cycle of social life.
Merolla, Daniela
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Asthma Prevalence, Knowledge, and Perceptions among Secondary School Pupils in Rural and Urban Costal Districts in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2014
Asthma is a common chronic disease of childhood that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of asthma among secondary school pupils in urban and rural areas of coast districts of Tanzania.
A Rodriguez, A Senthilselvan, B Quarm-Goka, C Niekerk, D Keeley, E von Mutius, EA Yobo, EF Crain, EG Weinberg, F Mugusi, Ferdinand Mugusi, Godfrey Mutashambara Rwegerera, GW Wong, H Anderson, H Anderson, J Liebhart, J Odhiambo, Julius Chacha Mwita, KM Hurwitz, M Asher, Meshack Shimwela, MI Asher, Michael Mwandri, N Ait‒Khaled, N Pearce, R Beasley, S Berntsen, SBL Barnett, The United Republic of Tanzania, Yohana Mashalla   +29 more
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Transforming healthcare with large language models: Current applications, challenges, and future directions—a literature review

Journal of Intelligent Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract AI‐based large language models (LLMs) have gradually made their way into various fields, transforming industries and changing the way we solve problems. LLMs have great potential in healthcare, where they can share the burden of data management, retrieval, and decision‐making.
Muhammad Umar, Vanessa Ali, Laiba Shamim, Imshaal Musharaf, Rabia Hafsa, Muhammad Umar Ahsan, Osama Ahmad, Lamea Bint Sabhan, Muhammad Saeed, Somaiya Ahmed, Sana Iftikhar, Noor Ul Ain   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A corpus-based survey of four electronic Swahili-English Bilingual dictionaries [PDF]

, 2009
In this article we survey four different electronic bilingual dictionaries for the language pair Swahili-English. Aided by a data-driven morphological analyzer and part-of-speech tagger, we quantify the coverage of the dictionaries on large monolingual ...
De Pauw, Guy, de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice, Wagacha, PW   +2 more
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The impact of COVID‐19 on public perceptions of wild meat in Central Africa

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild meat is a significant source of food and income generation in Central Africa. However, there is little knowledge of how the assumed link between COVID‐19 and wild meat consumption has been discussed by the media and received by the public. In this study, we conducted media content analysis of 264 articles published in 2019–2020 related to
Yuhan Li, Lude Kinzonzi, Paul Loundou, Divin Malekani, Krossy Mavakala, Christian Mikolo Yobo, Katharine Abernethy, Matilda Eve Dunn, Donald Midoko Iponga, Robert Mwinyihali, Joss Wright, Eleanor Jane Milner‐Gulland, Lauren Coad, Juliet H. Wright, Daniel W. S. Challender   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source