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Home advantage has been examined across different sports. Pollard provided evidence of this phenomenon in association football (soccer). This present study further considers the prevalence in the English Football Premiership, a division created from the former Football Association First Division in 1992. Archived data…

The pronunciation of the same word may vary considerably as a consequence of its context. The Dutch word tuin (English, garden) may be pronounced tuim if followed by bank (English, bench), but not if followed by stoel (English, chair). In a series of four experiments, we examined how Dutch listeners cope with this cont…

Deaf children who are learning to read are essentially learning a second language that may be transcribed in different ways, for example, using an alphabet, such as the Roman one used in written English, or logography, such as Japanese kanji. How do deaf adults from cultures using different writing systems memorize lin…

The effect of bilingualism on qualitative aspects of verbal learning and memory was investigated. Equivalent list learning tests in English and Spanish were carefully constructed, and compared across two bilingual Hispanic groups of Mexican origin that differed in their level of English proficiency ("balanced" and "non…

As more Hispanics seek help in mental health centers, the need arises for a reliable Spanish translation of the MMPI. This present research is a preliminary attempt to study the validity of the Nuñez translation of the MMPI, the translation most widely used in Latin America. This translation and the English MMPI w…

A familiarity effect in these experiments is defined as a subject's ability to respond more rapidly to a familiar stimulus than to an unfamiliar stimulus. In the first experiment, responding faster to familiar letters (upright) than to unfamiliar letters (inverted) occurred only when the two stimulus types were present…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate if language preference influences intrauterine insemination outcomes. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort. SETTING: The study was conducted at an urban medical center in New York from January 2016 to August 2021. PATIENT(S): All women older than 18 years undergoing their first IUI cycle with an infer…

BACKGROUND: English-Medium Instruction (EMI) in medical education aims to cultivate globally competent physicians, yet a significant challenge arises when students must subsequently pass high-stakes licensure examinations administered in their native language. This pilot study explores this critical linguistic transiti…

BACKGROUND: Despite the high prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), data on CVD management and disease control among patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) are limited. In this study, we sought to understand CVD risk factor control, disease management, and healthcare utilization in LEP patients. METHODS:…

BACKGROUND: Persons with limited English proficiency may receive inequitable care due to the absence of language services. Despite health equity initiatives, knowledge gaps exist regarding how and when language access needs are identified, acted upon, and which methods are being used. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this st…

INTRODUCTION: Presenting health information at a sixth-grade reading level is advised to accommodate the general public's abilities. Breast cancer (BC) is the second-most common malignancy in women, but the readability of online BC information in English and Spanish, the two most commonly spoken languages in the United…

Education 4.0 is considered a significant technology for teaching and learning. The present study aims to explore the impact and the importance of Education 4.0 for improving English language learning in the perception of students in India, especially Hyderabad City. Moreover, Education 4.0 has bloomed as an important…

BACKGROUND: Natural language processing applied to clinical text or aimed at a clinical outcome has been thriving in recent years. This paper offers the first broad overview of clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages other than English. Recent studies are summarized to offer insights and outline opport…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Several publications are warning that the German language is no longer needed for transmission of scientific data. One of the causes may be the Impact Factor (IF), which appears to be derived predominantly from Anglo-American journals. The aim of this study was to check actual international at…

'Therapists or clinicians need to be creative and flexible when working with patients for whom English is a second language, but they do not necessarily need to have the ability to speak the patient's first language'.

BACKGROUND: The present study aimed to evaluate the performance of four large language models (LLMs)—ChatGPT-4o (OpenAI, San Francisco, CA, USA), Gemini 2.5 Flash (Google AI, Mountain View, CA, USA), Claude Sonnet 4 (Anthropic, San Francisco, CA, USA), and DeepSeek V3 (DeepSeek AI, Hangzhou, China)—in ans…

INTRODUCTION: Patients with diabetes require healthcare and information that are accurate and extensive. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT herald the capacity to provide such exhaustive data. To determine (a) the comprehensiveness of ChatGPT's responses in Urdu to diabetes-related questions and (b) the accuracy…