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On reviewing recurrent problems in English medical papers written by Chinese authors concerning the usage of words and word collocations, the authors of this article call for careful evaluation between possible choices of words and expressions.

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) enable real-time web search, improved referencing, and multilingual support, yet ensuring they provide safe health information remains crucial. This perspective evaluates seven publicly accessible LLMs-ChatGPT, Co-Pilot, Gemini, MetaAI, Claude, Grok, Perplexity-on thr…

Cystinuria is a genetic disease that can lead to cystine urolith formation. The English bulldog is the dog breed most frequently affected. In this breed, three missense mutations have been suggested to be associated with cystinuria: c.568A>G and c.2086A>G in SLC3A1 and c.649G>A in SLC7A9. In this study, the occurrence…

In this study, a phase method for analyzing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals was developed, which can extract the phase information of fNIRS data by using Hilbert transform. More importantly, the phase analysis method can be further performed to generate the brain phase activation and to construct…

Past studies have shown that multimodal presentation of story can improve story-retelling performance in the first language. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether similar multimedia effects can be observed in second language learning and graphic novel reading. A total of 51 Chinese elementary scho…

'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'.

To help overcome language barriers,encourages authors fluent in languages other than English to provide non-English translations of their abstracts or entire articles.

OBJECTIVES: For English, the validated part of Psychedelic Experience Scale (PES48) is a four-factor structure called the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30). The other validated part of the PES48 consists of four more factors: two more mystical factors (paradoxicality and connectedness, which together with the M…

OBJECTIVES: The substance use disorder (SUD) crisis continues to be a public health challenge in the USA, disproportionately affecting culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations. Understanding how structural factors contribute to providing linguistically competent SUD treatment can guide efforts to incorp…

In this paper, the authors provide a concise summary of the frequently used structures and expressions in the English abstracts of medical papers, and call for the attention to some grammatical problems often found in English abstract writing.

PREFACE: The first edition of the General Rules for Gastric Cancer Study was published by the Japanese Research Society for Gastric Cancer (JRSGC) in 1963. The first English edition [1] was based on the 12th Japanese edition and was published in 1995. In 1997, the JRSGC was transformed into the Japanese Gastric Cancer…

A culture-fair scale that was specifically developed to compare six self-concept areas of English and Nigerian (Yoruba) adolescents was utilized in a sample of 686 adolescents. This consisted of 314 white English and 372 Yoruba adolescents whose ages ranged between 14.9 and 10.70 years. The English adolescents were fou…

The histopathological features of the inner ears in a case of deafness in an old English sheepdog reveal a cochleo-saccular (Scheibe) type of degeneration. However, also the hair cells in the vestibular part of the labyrinth were reduced in number though there appeared no clinical signs or symptoms of vestibular dysfun…

OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS: The vast majority of the global population speaks more than one language. In the United States, Spanish-English bilingual speakers are the largest bilingual group. Yet, the potential effect of being bilingual, specifically a Spanish-English speaker, on voice quality is poorly understood. The curre…

INTRODUCTION: Culturally and linguistically diverse families who have children with complex communication needs (CCN) often have limited access to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices and interventions due to the lack of services that acknowledge their families' cultural and linguistic needs. Despit…

INTRODUCTION: There are 25 million individuals in the United States with limited English proficiency (LEP). Language barriers contribute to poorer patient assessment, misdiagnosed and/or delayed treatment, and inadequate understanding of the patient condition or prescribed treatment. LEP also has been shown to result i…

OBJECTIVES: Language barriers in healthcare are associated with worse glycemic control among Latino patients with limited English proficiency and diabetes. We examined the association of patient-physician language concordance with lipid (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol [LDL-C]) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) con…