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End product: A document celebrating the English National Board's tenth anniversary was launched last week at a dinner to mark the end of its term of office. From left are English National Board Chief Executive Tony Smith, ENB Chair Jean Hooper. United Kingdom Central Council Chair Dame Audrey Emerton and Chief Nursing…

Erratum: Emerging Actions of Pterostilbene on Cancer Research Zhang XY, Zhang J, Xu LQ, et al. Zhongguo Fei Ai Za Zhi, 2018, 21(12): 931-936. In the version of this article initially published, error appeared on page 931. The English title should be "Emerging Actions of Pterostilbene on Cancer Research". The English ke…

PURPOSE: A corpus of English matrix sentences produced by 60 native and nonnative speakers of English was developed as part of a multinational coalition task group. This corpus was tested on a large cohort of U.S. Service members in order to examine the effects of talker nativeness, listener nativeness, masker type, an…

OBJECTIVE: Describe COVID-19 information-seeking experiences for culturally and linguistically diverse groups in Sydney, Australia. METHODS: Cross-sectional survey, translated into 11 languages; participants recruited from March 21 to July 9, 2021. Regression models identified factors associated with difficulty findin…

OBJECTIVE: To examine associations of maternal primary language with neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) outcomes (mother's milk at discharge, necrotizing enterocolitis [NEC], late-onset sepsis, weight gain) DESIGN: We performed a retrospective cohort study of mother-infant dyads (<34 weeks' gestation) in 9 NICUs (1/20…

PURPOSE: In Australia, about 40% of patients undergo mastectomy to treat breast cancer, with negative impacts on body image, sexual function and quality of life. Whilst breast reconstruction is associated with increased patient self-esteem and a greater sense of wholeness and well-being, the national reconstruction rat…

English bulldogs have been reported to have a high incidence of dystocia and caesarean section is often performed electively in this breed. A narrow pelvic canal is the major maternal factor contributing to obstructive dystocia. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to assess the pelvic dimensions of 40 clini…

OBJECTIVE: Assessment of language dominance using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a standard tool to estimate the risk of language function decline after epilepsy surgery. Although there has been considerable research in the characterization of language networks in bilingual individuals; little is known…

BACKGROUND: Translations of questionnaires need to be carefully validated to assure that the translation measures the same construct(s) as the original questionnaire. The four-dimensional symptom questionnaire (4DSQ) is a Dutch self-report questionnaire measuring distress, depression, anxiety and somatization. OBJECTI…

OBJECTIVE: To describe epidemiological trends of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean during the pandemic period. DESIGN AND METHODS: Data on laboratory-confirmed cases and deaths associated with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) contained in two regional databases at the Caribbean Epidemi…

BACKGROUND: The English and Spanish versions of the Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Cultural Competence Survey (CAHPS-CC) assess patients' experiences with culturally competent care. The possibility exists that even when Spanish and English speakers experience the same levels of cultura…

Diversity of language among healthcare employees and nursing students is growing as diversity increases among the general population. Institutions have begun to develop systems to accommodate diversity and to assimilate workers. One barrier to nonnative English-speaking nurse hires may be posed by readiness for the lic…

The objectives of this study were to determine the effect of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) visits and acuity status on admission rates from a pediatric ED. A retrospective cohort study was performed using a fully computerized medical record, which includes information on language spoken, triage acuity, and disposit…

Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted language learning tools are increasingly used in higher education, yet student acceptance of these tools may vary across academic disciplines and English proficiency levels. Building on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a baseline framework, this study examined how learning…

Grounded in flow theory and the person-artefact-task (PAT) model, this study examines the impact of flow on EFL learners' excessive use of translation software and identifies the antecedents of flow. This study also investigates whether students' academic background (English vs. non-English) moderates the relationship…

This study aims to investigate if predictions can influence subsequent language production in monolingual and bilingual situations. The possibility to correctly predict an upcoming response was operationalized by means of semantic classifier congruency. Participants were instructed to name a picture (e.g., firemen) aft…

We discover sizable differences between the lexical complexity assignments of first language (L1) and second language (L2) English speakers. The complexity assignments of 940 shared tokens without context were extracted and compared from three lexical complexity prediction (LCP) datasets: the CompLex dataset, the Word…

Previous research on the L1 acquisition of motion event expression suggests that mapping multiple semantic components onto syntactic units is associated with greater difficulties in verb-framed than in satellite-framed languages, because the former require more complex structures (using subordination). This study inves…