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The interest in clinically investigating the health-related quality of life and symptoms of aging males has increased in recent years. Recently, a couple of validated questionnaires have been proposed for either screening, diagnosing and assessing response to therapy. Among these, the Aging Males' Symptom (AMS) questio…

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…

Previous research has shown that tonal second language (L2) experience can enhance the third language (L3) tone perception of native speakers of non-tone languages. However, tone is a multidimensional concept, and phonation type also serves as an important cue in the tone perception of some tone languages. In this stud…

PURPOSE: English language proficiency has been an indicator of social status, social interactions, discrimination, and psychological distress. We examined associations between Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and suicide attempts requiring medical attention in adolescents. METHODS: We used data from CDC Youth Risk Be…

Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting physical and linguistic development. To the authors' knowledge, there have been no studies published documenting bilingual linguistic abilities in an individual with RTT. Recent studies have found no evidence of a detrimental effect of bilingual exposure o…

Orthographic uniqueness point (OUP) refers to the letter position of a word at which it is distinguishable from other lexical items in the language. Previous findings of OUP effects have been mixed and mainly demonstrated in native readers of alphabetic languages. The current study investigated whether OUP effects coul…

Cognitive processes that underlie individual differences in mathematical problem-solution accuracy in elementary emerging bilingual children (English Learners) at risk and not at risk for math problem-solving difficulties (MD) were examined. A battery of tests was administered in both English and Spanish that assessed…

One goal of undergraduate courses in Business English is teaching critical thinking, but this goal has been hindered by disagreement over how to teach those skills. Many textbooks pay insufficient attention to critical thinking skills. It remains unclear how effective existing textbooks are in helping teachers teach th…

At least 24 Chinese-English dictionaries of Chinese Medicine have been published in China during the recent 24 years (1984-2003). This thesis comments on "A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine" by Wiseman, agreeing on its establishing principles, sources and formation methods of the English system of Chinese medic…

Preoperative prehabilitation seeks to improve patients' functional reserve before surgery and support postoperative recovery. This bibliometric study mapped publication growth, collaboration patterns, research hotspots, and emerging themes in Web of Science Core Collection-indexed English-language literature and China…

PURPOSE: Code-switching is a common phenomenon in bilinguals, but its study in the context of bilinguals who stutter (BWS) remains limited. This preliminary study aims to investigate whether code-switching behaviors contribute to the moment of stuttering in adult bilinguals who stutter. METHOD: 23 Cantonese-English bi…

Smartphone use among older adults has become increasingly important, shaping social inclusion and daily life. This study examined public discussions on X (formerly Twitter) regarding smartphone use in older adults, comparing Persian-speaking and English-language communities. Tweets in English and Persian were collected…

This study investigated the effect of musicianship on the perceptual integrality of tones and segmental information in non-native speech perception. We tested 112 Cantonese musicians, Cantonese non-musicians, English musicians, and English non-musicians with a modified Thai tone AX discrimination task. In the tone disc…

INTRODUCTION: Research findings from various academic domains have demonstrated that students' self-efficacy (SE) influences their academic performance while limited studies have explored how foreign language reading SE influences reading performance. The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the relationsh…

This study explores the use and functions of engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To this end, the study analyses 80 editorials collected from two popular newspapers (40 from each):which publishes in English and appears in the UK andwhich publishes in Arabic and appears in Jordan. Following…

The main objective of the study was to ascertain whether English as a Foreign Language learners with various levels of English language achievement differ significantly in applying foreign language learning strategies. We also aimed to explore strategy use frequency in connection with attitude toward English language l…

PURPOSE: Although aappears to be a universal feature of early bilingualism, little is known about its development. We sought to determine if the magnitude of the discrepancy between receptive and expressive standard scores changed over time in bilingual children's two languages. METHOD: In this longitudinal study, sta…

Although extensive research has been done to compare monolingual and bilingual children's executive function, there are fewer studies that look at the relation between bilingual children's languages and executive function. The purpose of this study was two-fold; first, to compare inhibitory control (executive function)…

The current paper presents three studies that investigated the effect of exposure on the mental representations of filled pauses (). In Study 1, a corpus analysis identified the frequency of co-occurrence of filled pauses with words located immediately before or after them in naturalistic spoken adult British English (…