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The Detection Test for Language Impairments in Adults and the Aged (DTLA) is a quick, sensitive, and standardized screening test designed to assess language disorders in adults and elderly people. The test was specifically developed to detect linguistic impairment associated with major neurocognitive disorders. In 2017, we established normative data on 545 healthy individuals between 50 and 80 years old from four French-speaking countries: Belgium, Canada (Quebec), France, and Switzerland. Objective The objective of the present study was to develop norms for the population older than 80 years of age for the DTLA. Method We extend the original normative data to include 149 healthy, community-dwelling, French-speaking adults aged 80 years old and older from the same countries. Results For the total score of the screening test, we calculated the 5th, 15th, 25th, and 50th percentiles for two education groups. The analyses allowed the identification of cutoff and alert scores based on education level. Conclusions With the present study, solid normative data for the DTLA derived from the performance of 694 healthy, community-dwelling adults, and elderly people are now available to clinicians and researchers.

Performing peripherally inserted central catheters for children with bilateral bidirectional Glenn shunt, Fontan circulation and persistent left superior vena cava differs from those with normal central venous anatomy. This study presents two PICC procedures for a toddler with this condition to demonstrate an accurate PICC approach for such children.

New exploration results proved the presence of Tertiary sedimentary basins with hydrocarbon potential in the boundaries of Vietnam continental shelf. These basins were perhaps formed in the Early Oligocene on the Mesozoic basement of continental crust and were filled with mainly deltaic clastic sediments. Since very early Miocene these basins have linked together and extended wider. Sediments of marine and prograding delta facies accumulated and widespreaded on the whole continental shelf. At the Middle Miocene to present-day the opening of the Bien Dong Sea (Vietnam East Sea), the regional tectonic subsidence and the eustatic fluctuation had created sedimentary formations of open and deep marine facies with turbidite shale, platform carbonate including reef build-up. Andesite and basalt extrusion occurred in form of dykes resulting from tectonic inversions in Late Oligocene, in the beginning of Middle Miocene, particularly in Late Miocene-Pliocene. These Tertiary sedimentary basins are expected to have hydrocarbon potential and need to be investigated and explored adequately. The main risk is the drilling technology, the exploitation in the deep sea and high investment cost. The recently exploration results in illustrated a better potential in Lower Oligocene reservoir in South East margin of Cuu Long basin and many new signs. These signs need to be highlight researched for predicting accumulation distribution in study area, in purpose of oil and gas exploration for next stages.

Since time immemorial, rock has been attached tohuman life, present everywhere in human material and spiritual life. Therefore, many ethnic groups of Vietnam havecustoms of worship of “Soulstone”, “Rock God”. To Vietnamese people,thousands of years ago, rock became their spiritual symbol. Everywhere we go in Vietnam, we recognize the shape of the Vietnamese nation,feel national spirit as well as cultural depth and mindof the country through the shape of the rock. The papergoes deeply into understanding the “the spirit ofthe rock” in the cultural life of Vietnam through the symbolic meaning of the rock: Rock– the source of life, rock creates living space for people;rock – the challenge for human will; rock – sustainability ahead of time. Studying“the spirit of the rock” in Vietnamese minds is how to study the folk wisdom which has been refracted through the folk beliefs and popular manifestations of agricultural culture, from which to understand more about thesoul and personality of Vietnam.

International audience; In recent decades, many computational techniques have been developed to analyse the contextual usage of words in large language corpora. The present study examined whether the co-occurrence frequency obtained from large language corpora might boost purely semantic priming effects. Two experiments were conducted: one with conscious semantic priming, the other with subliminal semantic priming. Both experiments contrasted three semantic priming contexts: an unrelated priming context and two related priming contexts with word pairs that are semantically related and that co-occur either frequently or infrequently. In the conscious priming presentation (166-ms stimulus-onset asynchrony, SOA), a semantic priming effect was recorded in both related priming contexts, which was greater with higher co-occurrence frequency. In the subliminal priming presentation (66-ms SOA), no significant priming effect was shown, regardless of the related priming context. These results show that co-occurrence frequency boosts pure semantic priming effects and are discussed with reference to models of semantic network.

Currently, in the training curriculum of Bachelor degree in Vietnamese Studies (for an audience of foreign students), Vietnamese Literature is one of the compulsory subjects. This is an interesting subject, but hard for foreign students due to limited language skills nad capacities. Therefore, how to motivate foreign students to excitedly learn Vietnamese Literature and thoroughly understand literary works of Vietnamese literature? This paper raises some experiences in the application of the group discussion method based on the hierarchical theory of Benjamin Bloom's thinking when we teach Vietnamese Literature to foreign students, particularly fulltime regular students (in the formal system) studying at the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City. This method helps teachers to maximize the motto “learnercentered”, and also helps students to make effective use of P.O.W.E.R studying methods (initiated by Professor of Psychology Robert S. Feldman, University of Massachusetts) in order to promote active, positive and creative learning.

Vietnam is the first and only country in the world to regularly use oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) in their cholera control program. From 1998 to 2012, more than 10.9 million doses of the locally produced OCV were deployed in the country through its public health system. We present an overview of cholera epidemiology in Vietnam and the development and deployment of the OCV. Since 1997, the number of cholera cases in Vietnam has declined, in association with increased OCV use as well as improvements in socioeconomic and water and sanitation conditions. It is not possible to establish the relative contributions of each of these to the reduction in cholera rates. Hue, the only province to use OCVs consistently every year, has not reported any cholera case since 2003. As WHO organizes a stockpile of OCV for use in emergencies and recommends the use of OCVs together with traditional means of control, the experience in Vietnam will be helpful to other at-risk countries as they look towards adopting the vaccine in their cholera control programs.

Tran Thi Mai. Kein Ort. Nirgends. Christa Wolf. Une façon d'être-hors-la-phrase. In: Cahiers d'Études Germaniques, numéro 6, 1982. pp. 151-157.