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The absorption of glycine, glycylglycine, water, and electrolytes was studied by intestinal perfusion in normal Indian and English people. Compared with the English people the Indians showed impaired absorption of all four substances. In the Indians the absorption of glycine and glycylglycine was impaired to the same e…

The perception of prosodic phrase boundaries remains a core difficulty for second language (L2) learners. Drawing on the categorical perception framework, which examines how listeners apply continuous or categorical auditory memory strategies (i.e., gradient or categorical perception) to map acoustic waves onto linguis…

Introduction Effective clinical communication is essential for delivering high‑quality care and directly impacts the safety of patients who prefer a non‑English language. However, no national standard exists for assessing oral non-English language skills among multilingual medical students in the Uni…

PURPOSE: This study examines the preliminary efficacy of the Computer-Assisted Bilingual Vocabulary Instruction (CABVI) program in promoting Spanish and English vocabulary acquisition among dual language learners (DLLs). It also investigates the impact of the language of instruction on receptive, naming, and definition…

Telehealth use increased dramatically after the COVID-19 pandemic enabled largely by regulatory changes. Health policy experts recommend telehealth as a viable option for healthcare delivery in the post-pandemic world. As investment in telehealth continues, it is important to ensure that existing health disparities are…

INTRODUCTION: The effectiveness of ChatGPT responses to common living kidney donation (LKD) queries remains unclear. METHODS: We surveyed nephrologists and living kidney donors/candidates to evaluate ChatGPT-3.5's accuracy, comprehensiveness, and clarity in answering common donation questions in English and French. Ra…

BACKGROUND: To explore the association between ethnicity, as a proxy for language, and participation in clinical trials (CT) conducted by Principal Investigators (PI) who speak one or more language in addition to English. METHODS: This retrospective, descriptive study utilized CT participant demographic data extracted…

Spoken lessons (lectures) are commonly used in schools as a medium for conveying educational content. In adolescence, experience-expectant maturation of language and cognitive systems supports learning; however, little is known about whether or how learners' language experiences interact with this integration process d…

AIM: To explore how English epistemic adverbs, as used in health communication, are understood by speakers depending on their first language (L1) and language context. METHODS: We used an online dissimilarity rating task with paired doctors' opinions which differed only with respect to the embedded epistemic adverbs (…

PURPOSE: There remain few available tools to assess language development in Spanish-English dual language learner (DLL) toddlers in the United States. Of interest is the development of early sentences as children move from producing single words to producing multiword utterances. This study is the first to extend sente…

BACKGROUND: Tropical cyclones are a recurrent, lethal hazard. Climate change, demographic, and development trends contribute to increasing hazards and vulnerability. This mapping review of articles on tropical cyclone mortality assesses geographic publication patterns, research gaps, and priorities for investigation to…

This paper reports on a cross-language longitudinal study in which we extend previous research on the effects of maternal education on vocabulary growth in Spanish- and English-dominant children at three time points: 16 months, 22 months, and 30 months of age. This study addresses recent conflicting evidence regarding…

OBJECTIVES: To examine the effects of unilateral hearing loss on children's ability to perceive familiar words and to learn and retain new words. Because children with unilateral hearing loss receive full auditory input in one ear, their performance was expected to be consistent with that of children with normal hearin…

BACKGROUND: The collection of race, ethnicity, and language (REaL) data from patients is advocated as a first step to identify, monitor, and improve health inequities. As a result, many health care institutions collect patients' preferred languages in their electronic health records (EHRs). These data may be used in cl…

The purpose of this research is to assess the effect of Voki, a tool of web 2.0 on students' academic achievement and attitudes towards English courses. The study group of this research, using a quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest control group, consists of 5th-grade students at a public secondary school…

The English and Spanish versions of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales have not been psychometrically evaluated for use with Hispanic Americans. Hispanic American adults ( = 436) completed the English ( = 210) or Spanish ( = 226) Multidimensional Health Locus o…

Listeners identify talkers more accurately when listening to their native language compared to an unfamiliar, foreign language. This language-familiarity effect in talker identification has been shown to arise from familiarity with both the sound patterns (phonetics and phonology) and the linguistic content (words) of…

BACKGROUND: Stuttering and word-finding difficulty (WFD) are two types of communication difficulty that occur frequently in children who learn English as an additional language (EAL), as well as those who only speak English. The two disorders require different, specific forms of intervention. Prior research has describ…

BACKGROUND: The IPSS form has been found useful for assessing symptom severity, which assists in treatment choice and in monitoring patients on therapy. The form should be self-administered and requires some level of literacy. We assessed the problems associated with its administration in a developing community. MATER…

OBJECTIVE: To develop an oral health literacy instrument for Spanish-speaking adults, evaluate its psychometric properties, and determine its comparability to an English version. METHODS: The Oral Health Literacy Assessment in Spanish (OHLA-S) and English (OHLA-E) are designed with a word recognition section and a com…