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BACKGROUND: Disparities in COVID-19 information and vaccine access have emerged during the pandemic. Individuals from historically excluded communities (eg, Black and Latin American) experience disproportionately negative health outcomes related to COVID-19. Community gaps in COVID-19 education, social, and health care…

BACKGROUND: Over 34 million people in the United States have diabetes, with 1.5 million diagnosed every year. Diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) is a crucial component of treatment to delay or prevent complications. Rural communities face many unique challenges in accessing DSMES, including geograph…

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin, who died attempting to cross a border to escape persecution, described both the impossibility and the possibilities of translation. The impossibility is implicit in the very title of Benjamin's essay, Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers. The German word Aufgabe can mean "task" or "e…

The nature of the visual input that integrates with the audio signal to yield speech processing advantages remains controversial. This study tests the hypothesis that the information extracted for audiovisual integration includes co-occurring suprasegmental dynamic changes in the acoustic and visual signal. English sen…

There is an unmet need for Chinese language health materials in the USA. We investigated the use of machine translation (MT) plus human post-editing (PE) to produce Chinese translations of public health materials. We collected 60 documents that had been manually translated from English to traditional Chinese. The Engli…

In the final instalment of this three part series detailing my experiences as an English midwife receiving maternity care in America, this article discusses specific differences in practice between the UK and America from the perspective of a midwife. Here I focus on the implications of an approach to care that views p…

Following his discharge from the Royal Navy at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1816, Dr John Forbes (1787-1861) studied at the University of Edinburgh and gained his MD degree in the following year. He moved to Cornwall in September 1817 and started using a primitive stethoscope. In 1821 he translated Laennec's class…

Primary persistent atrial standstill due to atrioventricular muscle dystrophy is a rare familial disease in dogs. The diagnosis of this disorder in a 5-month-old English springer spaniel is the earliest in dogs that have been presented at the Ontario Veterinary College.

The present study used an object manipulation task to explore whether infants are able to learn words in a foreign language. French-learning 20-month-olds, who were taught new words in either English or French by a bilingual French-English speaker, succeeded in both language conditions.

Medical document retrieval presents a unique combination of challenges for the design and implementation of retrieval engines. We introduce a method to meet these challenges by implementing a multilingual retrieval interface for biomedical content in the World Wide Web. To this end we developed an automated method for…

The authors report a study in Dutch that used an on-line preparation paradigm to test the issue of semantic dependency versus morphological autonomy in the production of polymorphemic words. Semantically transparent complex words (like input in English) and semantically opaque complex words (like invoice) showed clear…

This study examined the relationship between self-image and ethnic identification among 3 South African groups. Participants included random samples of 347 Afrikaans-speaking Whites, 113 English-speaking Whites, and 466 Blacks in urban Gauteng. Positive and negative self-image were extracted using the Rosenberg Self-Es…

In this paper we examine the tendency for agrammatic aphasics to make thematic reversal errors in comprehension, e.g., a tendency for English-speaking agrammatics to assign a preposed object the subject role. Although this tendency has been argued to follow from either a linear (Grodzinsky, 1995) or a directionality (H…

PURPOSE: To describe the translation and validation of the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) Use Questionnaire. METHODS: The NIC Use Questionnaire was translated to Korean using back-translation and three criteria to test the semantic, content, and technical equivalence of the original and translated version.…

This study compared the effect of visual cuing on the intelligibility of DECtalk for native and nonnative speakers of English in both ideal listening conditions and in the presence of background noise at a signal to noise (S/N) ratio of + 10dB. Visual cuing improved DECtalk's intelligibility for nonnative speakers more…

This article discusses the life and accomplishments of Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), the German scholar, traveler, and physician, and his relationship to Pastor H.G. Weland of Lemgo. It presents the manuscript of Pastor H.G. Weland's Latin Elegy for Engelbert Kaempfer. The manuscript's form and readings are compared…

Thomas De Quincey published his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium Eater in 1821. The publication both fascinated and outraged its 19th-century readers. Heated debate followed on such topics as: the causality of opiate use; self-inflicted suffering and responsibility; the impact of availability and enviro…

A phonological route to the mental lexicon was demonstrated in two experiments. Each involved a target discrimination task in which the target was the first or last letter of a quadrigram. Half the quadrigrams were pseudohomophones (identical in sound but not in spelling to an English word) and the other half were nonh…