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In neuropsychological assessment, semantic fluency is a widely accepted measure of executive function and access to semantic memory. While fluency scores are typically reported as the number of unique words produced, several alternative manual scoring methods have been proposed that provide additional insights into per…

Purpose This study examines the response patterns of 278 Spanish-English dual language learners (DLLs) on a standardized test of receptive English vocabulary. Method Investigators analyzed responses to 131 items on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Fourth Edition ( Dunn & Dunn, 2007 ) focusing on differential accurac…

OBJECTIVE: Although federal legislation mandates the provision of qualified interpreters for limited English proficiency (LEP) patients, language services are consistently underutilized by health care providers even when readily available. The objective of this study was to systematically review the literature and summ…

BACKGROUND: Recent advancements in understanding the molecular basis of gliomas and new concepts of neuronal plasticity have shown the importance of maximal resection in gliomas to improve progression-free overall survival. Awake craniotomies with intraoperative cortical and subcortical mapping have helped to achieve t…

Diseases of the nervous system are an important contributor to clinical and social problems. Therefore there is a need to provide undergraduates and postgraduates of medical faculties with adequate training in neurology. However, many shortcomings have been observed in this field, often associated with students' negati…

BACKGROUND: To assess the cross-sectional association between self-rated eyesight and physical activity behaviour in a large general population sample of older English adults. METHODS: Analyses of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Participants provided information on self-rated eyesight (categorised…

OBJECTIVES: Cross-cultural comparisons in children's body composition, health-related fitness and physical activity (PA) are rare due to a shortage of comparable data, but such comparisons may help avert worrying global prevalence in childhood obesity, and declining fitness and PA. METHODS: We drew samples of Canadian…

OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether the methodological quality is influenced by language of publication in reports of randomized controlled trials and controlled clinical trials of physiotherapy interventions. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Bibliometric and methodological quality data from all reports of trials indexed on t…

Research on children's speech perception and production suggests that consonant voicing and place contrasts may be acquired early in life, at least in word-onset position. However, little is known about the development of the acoustic correlates of later-acquired, word-final coda contrasts. This is of particular intere…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate preterm birth (PTB) for Inuit and First Nations vs. non-Indigenous populations in the province of Québec, Canada. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. METHODS: We evaluated singleton live births for Québec residents, 1981-2008 (n = 2,310,466). Municipality of residence (I…

We examined children's productions of mainstream and non-mainstream relative clause markers (e.g. that, who, which, what, where, Ø) in African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) as a function of three linguistic variables (syntactic role of the marker, humanness of the antecedent and adjacency…

This study examined the role of adolescents' and mothers' self-reports of English and heritage language proficiency in youth's academic and emotional adjustment among 444 Chinese American families. Adolescents who were proficient in English tended to exhibit higher reading achievement scores, math achievement scores, a…

Research articles are the coin of the realm for anyone working in academia, and success or failure to publish determines a biomedical researcher's career path. At the same time, the dramatic increase in foreign faculty and trainees in U.S. academia, as well as in international scientific collaboration, adds another dim…

UNLABELLED: One aspect of linguistic input that may vary in bilingual speech communities is the use of overregularization (e.g., catched). In an earlier study, typically developing bilingual Spanish/English-speaking children were noted to use overregularizations in an elicited production task, accept these forms in a g…

The purpose of this study was to compare adults with and without self-reported learning disabilities (SRLD and NSRLD) from six English-speaking populations including: English-speaking Canada, Great Britain, The Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, and the United States. These six populations were selecte…

AIM: To facilitate the planning of future dental services, this study sought baseline data, relating to caries experience and dental attendance, for Somali children resident in Sheffield, UK. METHODS: A convenience sample of 4 to 14 year old Somali children was drawn from pupils attending Somali religious education cl…

BACKGROUND: The literature on the primary care assessment of mental distress among Indian subcontinent origin patients suggests frequent presentations to general practitioner, but rarely for recognisable psychiatric disorders. This study investigates whether cultural variations in patients' causal explanatory models ac…

Recent studies suggest that violence in health care environments, especially mental health care, appears to be increasing. Although there is a lack of cross-cultural studies to prove it, this increase in violence would seem to be an international phenomenon. The present study sought to compare the extent and nature of…

Research on stress and its influence on health and well-being has flourished for several decades, examining as predictors such psychosocial variables as personality and coping. This work now often targets multiethnic samples. Because many potential participants lack facility in English, a need exists for translations o…

OBJECTIVE: To report two cases of malignant mixed müllerian tumor of the extraovarian secondary müllerian system and to identify cases reported in the English literature. DESIGN: Two cases are described and discussed along with cases reported previously in the English literature. SETTING: The University of…