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The authors attempt to grammatically classify the usage of articles, for the purpose of decreasing the misuse of articles, which frequently occurs in English medical paper written by Chinese authors.

In this paper, the usage of participles and compound words as attributives in English medical papers is discussed with also regard to the application of nouns in groups, specifically for the benefit of Chinese authors.

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.

The supply of donor organs cannot keep up with demand.argues that assuming people want to donate unless there is contrary evidence will increase availability, butbelieves the problem is more complex

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.

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…

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…

English sweating disease also known as Sudor Anglicus is one of the least familiar epidemics of the Middle Ages, striking England 5 times during the 15th and 16th centuries before fading. This article will discuss the knowledge available to us about this fascinating epidemic, its characteristics and causes.

We analyze names given to urologic devices that are apparently similar in English and Spanish but with different meanings. The translation of the commonest terms for instruments and some problematic words are reviewed. Although some of the equivalents are a convention, it is interesting to know the more widely used now…

BACKGROUND: As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the demand for bilingual teachers has grown exponentially. However, the unique combination of being a bilingual occupational voice user establishes challenges that warrant careful examination. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between bilingualism,…

Over the course of literacy development, children learn to recognize word sounds and meanings in print. Yet, they do so differently across alphabetic and character-based orthographies such as English and Chinese. To uncover cross-linguistic influences on children's literacy, we asked young Chinese-English simultaneous…

INTRODUCTION: English springer spaniels have larger, rounder ventricles than most other breeds. How this geometry impacts responses to volume overload remains unknown. We compared left ventricular size between English springer spaniels and two similarly sized sporting breeds (Border collies and Labrador retrievers) in…

BACKGROUND: Preoperative decision-making in patients who speak a primary language other than English is understudied. We investigated whether patient primary language is associated with differences in immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) after mastectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This retrospective observational study a…

To examine the association between acculturation and leisure-time physical activity among Asian Americans.Data came from the 2011-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, restricting to non-Hispanic Asian adults aged 20 years and older (n = 1989). Acculturation was assessed by language preference at home,…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of search strategies for a different language on systematic review results, using English index searches versus Chinese index searches for Chinese literature pertaining to cerebral palsy (CP) as an example. METHODS: We conducted two parallel searches with the same search strategy. Both…

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to assess the equivalence of English- and Chinese-language versions of the SF-6D (a 6-dimensional health classification system based on the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey) using a model of equivalence proposed previously. METHODS: We analyzed data from a previously published, cr…