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Languages other than English represent an ever-growing component of the tapestry of the United States. Studies have shown that language barriers can impact access to care and quality of care, particularly in specialty clinics. Given the additional challenges faced by language interpretation in pediatric settings, the f…

The researcher designed a smartphone app to help college students to learn English (L2) vocabulary. The app contained 3,402 English words that were compiled into an alphabetic wordlist with each word displayed on three features; namely: spelling, pronunciation and Chinese definitions. To test the effectiveness of the a…

We performed transposed brachiobasilic arteriovenous fistula (TBBAVF) in 24 patients from January 2006 to August 2010. The operative time was 90-210 minutes (mean: 136 minutes). All patients had edema of an upper extremity and 2 patients had wound complications. Major complications were not seen. The primary patency ra…

Effective communication regarding distance in the vertical dimension is critical for many ecological, climatological and broader geophysical studies of the Earth. Confusion exists regarding the definition of three English words commonly used to describe the vertical dimension: (1) elevation; (2) altitude; and (3) heigh…

The purpose of this article is to discuss current findings in the research literature on the experiences and needs of stroke survivors and their family carers and to provide suggestions for future research. Based on this critical review, knowledge gaps and issues in stroke management in the community indicate that the…

During the opening years of "Canada's Century," adolescents came to constitute a "youth problem," another of the often-overlapping "social problems" of the day. Medical doctors formed a significant cohort among those authorized to identify such potential threats to the national health, in its every sense. As they succe…

A new tool for speech analysis is presented, operating in real-time and incorporating the analysing power of a contemporary auditory model to produce the familiar display of the speech spectrograph. This "auditory spectrograph" is used to analyse English consonant sounds and the results are compared with conventional w…

Conversational discourse samples were obtained from four aphasic and four neurologically normal Hispanic bilinguals in monolingual English, monolingual Spanish, and bilingual contexts to identify codeswitching patterns. Analysis of the samples based on the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) Model (Myers-Scotton, 1993a) reveal…

English and Turkish words in 2 fonts were presented to young and elderly Ss, and memory was assessed directly with recognition tests and indirectly with reading time. Young and elderly Ss showed repetition priming on English words and showed larger priming effects when the study and test fonts were the same rather than…

Injuries of the abdominal aorta due to blunt trauma are rare. So far, 33 cases have been reported in the English literature and false aneurysm formation after such injuries is even rarer. In this article, a case of false aneurysm of the abdominal aorta after blunt trauma in an acrobat which was successfully managed is…

Although many machine-translation programs are currently available, few evaluation methods of such translation exist for any given application area. It is difficult to evaluate machine-translation systems objectively because the quality of a translation depends on the combination of three factors: the translation progr…

An exercise-induced malignant hyperthermia-like syndrome developed in an English Springer Spaniel. Moderate exercise resulted in pronounced hyperlactacidemia, dyspnea, and hyperthermia. Before exercise, the dog had high activities of serum muscle enzymes, mild reticulocytosis, abnormally increased erythrocyte osmotic f…

Infants acquire whatever language is spoken in the environment into which they are born. The mental capability of the newborn child is not biased in any way towards the acquisition of one human language rather than another. Because psychologists who attempt to model the process of language comprehension are interested…

A data processing system programmed in a terminal-oriented language called APL is described. This user-oriented system features the print-out of English text discharges summaries for patients treated in a stroke rehabilitation unit. The variables contained in the summaries are stored in the computer for statistical ana…