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Childhood obesity is associated with children's exposure to food/beverage marketing. Policy options in this area are being sought in order to reduce childhood obesity rates on a population-level. We examined the nutritional quality of foods advertised to children during their preferred television viewing in Ontario (Ca…

BACKGROUND: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent rheumatic disorders in the Asia-Pacific region. Identification of modifiable risk factors is important for development of strategies for primary and secondary prevention of knee OA. OBJECTIVE: Developing a core questionnaire for identification of risk f…

BACKGROUND: Flexibility is important in choosing methods and modes of questionnaire administration, to accommodate the needs of patients with diverse linguistic, cultural, educational, and functional skills. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the extent to which 2 different modes (interview- vs. self-administration) yielded co…

BACKGROUND: Surprisingly little is known about the use of modal auxiliaries by children with specific language impairment (SLI). These forms fall within the category of grammatical morphology, an area of morphosyntax that is purportedly very weak in children with SLI. AIMS: Three studies were conducted to examine the…

When nurses who are educated internationally immigrate to the United States, they are expected to have English language proficiency in order to function as a competent nurse. The purpose of this research was to provide sufficient information to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) to make a defensibl…

BACKGROUND: It is not known if the inclusion of bilinguals affects the results of research using Quality-of-Life (QoL) scales. OBJECTIVE: To determine the influence of bilingualism on responses to a QoL scale. RESEARCH DESIGN: In this cross sectional study, a population-based, disproportionately stratified random sam…

OBJECTIVE: To assess general practitioner consultation among Chinese people compared with the general population and other minority ethnic groups, and to investigate the factors associated with general practitioner consultation among the Chinese population. DESIGN: Survey of a representative sample of Chinese people a…

INTRODUCTION: Approximately 25% of youth in the United States speak a language other than English at home. These youth may have less exposure to English-speaking media, including public smoking prevention initiatives such as the FDA's "The Real Cost" campaign. Research is needed to explore potential gaps in the reach o…

Mobile phone technology has gained increasing attention in education; however, its systematic pedagogical application in high school English as a foreign language (EFL) instruction remains underexplored. This study designed, validated, and evaluated a mobile-assisted pedagogical model aimed at enhancing academic enthus…

BACKGROUND: Limited data exist on intervertebral disk disease (IVDD) prevalence and risk factors in English cocker spaniels. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES: IVDD risk factors and prevalence vary between breeds and within sub-populations. ANIMALS: Two thousand six hundred fifty-four English cocker spaniels. METHODS: An online…

OBJECTIVE: Health literacy is an important predictor of individuals' health, medical adherence, and health-related decision making. This study investigated the predictors of health literacy among Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) users. METHODS: 408 Deaf ASL users and 445 Hearing English speakers were administered the…

OBJECTIVES: To report the incidence and burden of concussion in elite English football; and to compare between sexes (men's vs women's football), activity (matches vs training) and level (international vs domestic). METHODS: Concussion injuries in men's and women's international football (2012-2022) and men's (2013-20…

PURPOSE: Some bilinguals may exhibit lower performance when recognizing speech in noise (SiN) in their second language (L2) compared to monolinguals in their first language. Poorer performance has been found mostly for late bilinguals (L2 acquired after childhood) listening to sentences containing linguistic context an…

AIMS: The purpose of this research was to investigate to what extent the most commonly identified non-native features in the L1 speech of late consecutive bilinguals are reflected in differences in the bilinguals' productions of these features compared with those of monolingual speakers of the L1. DESIGN: We investiga…

INTRODUCTION: This study explores the features of bilingual neurogenic stuttering and the potential connection between emotion and articulation rate on speech disfluencies. METHOD: The participant is  a 59-year old, Yiddish-English bilingual male with a moderate non-fluent aphasia. Thirty-two narratives (16 in ea…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of early bilingual exposure on Spanish-English bilingual children's neural organization of English morphosyntactic structures. This study examines how children's age and language experiences are related to morphosyntactic processing at the neural level. METHOD:…

Medical students in China and other non-English speaking countries are susceptible to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing anxiety. English writing is not only a vital component tested for admission to postgraduate and doctoral programs, but it is also critical for the publication of academic papers. Although th…

This cross-sectional study explored differences in the receipt of health care provider (HCP) counseling to control/lose weight and adopt weight-related lifestyle behavior changes among Hispanic respondents according to acculturation level. Differences in reported action regarding HCP counseling were also examined. Data…

PURPOSE: To determine which patient characteristics influence MRI scan time and how. METHODS: A database search of outpatient MRI liver examinations on 1.5T and 3T scanners from 1/1/2019 to 4/4/2019 was performed using an in-house developed software tool. Mean and median scan times were calculated. Patients who had di…