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This paper discusses the commonalities and differences in the processing mechanism of analytic reading in the English orthography and the Chinese orthography. Readers of English generally use the phonological processing route, although the morphological aspect should also be emphasized. Readers of Chinese would need to…

Congenitally deaf subjects exposed to tachistoscopic presentation of English words, British Sign Language (BSL) signs, manual letters stimuli and a non-verbal task showed a left hemisphere advantage for English words and signs, a right hemisphere advantage for manual letters and no field differences for the non-verbal…

BACKGROUND: Cognitive assessments were traditionally developed using English-speaking populations, creating a potential disadvantage and misrepresentation for non-English speakers. We aimed to determine whether English- and Spanish-test-takers have similar or different cognitive trajectories. METHODS: Participants inc…

BACKGROUND: A greater percentage of surgical procedures are being performed each year on patients 65 years of age or older. Concurrently, a growing proportion of patients in English-speaking countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada have a language other than English (LOE) preference. W…

English learning self-efficacy is a critical psychological factor associated with college students' engagement and persistence in English learning, yet its relationships with the social environment, health behaviors (e.g., physical activity), and cognitive resources have rarely been examined within an integrated framew…

OBJECTIVE: Acute cholecystitis (AC) is among the most frequently encountered conditions in emergency care settings. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven language models have emerged as innovative resources for accessing and synthesising medical information; however, their reliability and readability across dif…

INTRODUCTION: In recent decades, higher education institutions worldwide have increasingly adopted English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) across various disciplines, including medicine, to promote internationalisation and enhance access to global knowledge and markets. While EMI facilitates access to international…

BACKGROUND: While large language models (LLMs) perform well in medical education, their ability to accurately interpret and answer English and Arabic dental multiple-choice questions (MCQs) remains underexplored. AIMS: This study evaluated the performance of advanced LLMs in answering dental MCQs in both languages, id…

OBJECTIVE: Studies that evaluate YouTube videos on hydrocephalus often exclude non-English-language videos, even though hydrocephalus is more prevalent in low- and middle-income countries where English may not be widely understood. This study had two aims: to analyze the engagement, content, and quality of YouTube vide…

OBJECTIVE: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a prominent musculoskeletal disorder that affects approximately 303 million people worldwide. The challenges that language barriers present to the Latina population in regard to the diagnosis and treatment of OA remain largely unknown. The objective of this study was to examine dispari…

BACKGROUND: Accessing professional medical interpreters for brief, low risk exchanges can be challenging. Machine translation (MT) for verbal communication has the potential to be a useful clinical tool, but few evaluations exist. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the quality of three MT applications for English-Spanish and Eng…

OBJECTIVE: The National Institutes of Health Toolbox Cognition Battery (NIHTB-CB) has both English- and Spanish-language versions producing crystallized and fluid cognition composite scores. This study examined measurement invariance between languages of administration. If established, measurement invariance would indi…

In the field of education, the development of educational big data has become an important strategic choice to promote the construction of the digital campus and educational reform, and educational big data has become a new driving force in the field of education that cannot be ignored. Based on the theoretical basis o…

The Malay version of the Yatt Suicide Attitude Scale (YSAS) was found to be reliable and valid for use in the Malaysian context. This study aims to validate and determine the cut-off points of the English version of the YSAS for a wider application by English-speaking researchers and practitioners.The English version o…

PURPOSE: This paper's purpose is to provide a resource for clinicians and researchers of select voice-related patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) available in the English language. METHOD: A systematic search for voice-related PROMs was conducted between September 2020 and July 17, 2021. Databases included APA P…

BACKGROUND: Diabetes technologies, such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGM), have been associated with improved glycemic control and increased quality of life for young people with type 1 diabetes (T1D); however, few young people use these devices, especially those from minority ethnic groups. Curren…

In recent years, people increasingly are accessing health information on the Internet. A significant percentage of the United States (US) population has limited English proficiency with Spanish being the most common other language spoken. There is limited research on the presence or quality of Spanish-language health i…

Informed consent forms (ICFs) in clinical trials are the only objective testimony whether the information provided to participants is comprehensive and presented in an accessible language. We evaluated the length of Hebrew ICFs and their English translations and evaluated the readability of the latter. In fifteen clini…

An important challenge in bilingualism research is to understand the mechanisms underlying sentence processing in a second language and whether they are comparable to those underlying native processing. Here, we focus on verb-particle constructions (VPCs) that are among the most difficult elements to acquire in L2 Engl…

The translation of well established psychometric tools from English into Xhosa may assist in improving access to psychological services for Xhosa speakers. The aim of this study was to translate the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation - Outcome Measure (CORE-OM), a measure of general distress and dysfunction develo…