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While some first language (L1) reading models suggest that inefficient word recognition and small working memory tend to inhibit higher-level comprehension processes; the Compensatory Encoding Model maintains that slow word recognition and small working memory do not normally hinder reading comprehension, as readers ar…

OBJECTIVES: To examine the extent to which limited English proficiency (LEP) poses a risk to physical and mental health, using older Korean Americans as a target population. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS: Older Korean Americans (N = 1,301). MEASUREMENTS: Health outcomes were indexed using binary varia…

Rouen university hospital cares for increasing numbers of non-French-speaking patients: tourists, patients from the Mediterranean basin, Eastern Europe, etc. To optimise this care, a communication tool was developed in 2012 to be used with English-speaking patients.

Many species of the genusare known as opportunistic pathogens and have been isolated in association with infectious diseases in humans and animals. Here, we present the complete genome sequence of another opportunistic pathogenic representative, namely, isolated from the otitis externa of an English bulldog.

The methods for searching traditional Chinese medical literature in English with subject headings in PubMed-MEDLINE database were discussed from the practical view, and seven useful searching methods with free words according to practical experiences were put forward in order to assist the domestic TCM researchers to u…

PHENOMENON: With increasing mobility of people across borders and medical tourism, more countries are called to make their healthcare environment ready to accept foreign patients. Patient communication skills in English are indispensable for healthcare professionals in non-English-speaking countries. This is not only i…

BACKGROUND: Wikipedia is a popular encyclopedia for health- and disease-related information in which patients seek advice and guidance on the web. Yet, Wikipedia articles can be unsuitable as patient education materials, as investigated in previous studies that analyzed specific diseases or medical topics with a compar…

IMPORTANCE: Language and indexing biases may exist among Chinese-sponsored randomized clinical trials (CS-RCTs). Such biases may threaten the validity of systematic reviews. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the existence of language and indexing biases among CS-RCTs on drug interventions. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: In…

This paper explores the representation of nursing in the 1997 Academy Award winning film The English Patient (Director Minghella 1996). It examines the way in which the concerns and dilemmas that have become commonplace in nursing literature are represented through the experiences of the character Hana. In particular,…

Therapeutic groups of parents of children with cancer have been seen as potentially helpful to those parents who utilize the groups. The authors report on a study of the differing content raised in two parent groups, one English-speaking and one Spanish-speaking.

Despite the importance of measurement of parental rearing patterns in psychiatric research, there are almost no acceptable standardised inventories available. An English-language version of the Swedish EMBU Inventory is presented, which has subscales measuring the degree to which each parent was abusive, depriving, pun…

In studying the perception of differences between Black English and Standard English by 48 first-grade, urban, Black children, BE and SE were partitioned into content, i.e., syntax and lexicon, and style, i.e., suprasegmentals or prosodic features of phonology. A discrimination task was designed to test whether the sub…