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Tracheal hypoplasia is a congenital abnormality associated with brachycephalic airway syndrome, resulting in a generalized decrease in tracheal lumen diameter (TLD). Radiographic techniques to assess tracheal narrowing have been described; however, comparisons of tracheal diameter among breeds of bulldogs have not been…

Spoken language contains critical information related to "what" is being said as well as "who" is talking. Listeners use various cues from speech to identify talkers. Talkers can be identified primarily based on acoustic cues, but access to higher-level cues depends on the extent of language familiarity. Do listeners h…

Grounded in frameworks of decoloniality and transnationalism, this study examines how organizational behaviors in education-particularly in teacher preparation-can shift to more inclusively serve transnational youth, challenging Eurocentric, nation-bound assumptions about pedagogy, belonging, and professional developme…

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to translate the Patient Diabetes Knowledge Questionnaire (PDKQ) from the English version to the Malay version and validate it. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted by forward translating the English language PDKQ to the Malay language by two independent translators and backward-trans…

BACKGROUND: The increasing incidence and prevalence of urinary tract infections (UTI) align with the internet's rise to mainstream usage. Today's new digital era has obliged patients to engage in online content relating to their health and well-being, including urological conditions. These recent shifts led this study…

Language is a fundamental aspect of human culture that influences cognitive and perceptual processes. Prior evidence demonstrates personality self-report can vary across multilingual persons' language contexts. We assessed how cultural identification, language dominance, or both dynamically influence bilingual responde…

To inform the performance of ecological engineering designs for artificial structures at sea, it is essential to characterise their impacts on the epibenthic communities colonising them. In this context, the present study aims to compare the community structure among natural and four different artificial hard habitats…

There is evidence suggesting that bilingual individuals demonstrate an advantage over monolinguals in performing various tasks related to memory and executive functions. The characteristics of this bilingual advantage are not unanimously agreed upon in the literature, and some even doubt it exists. The heterogeneity of…

INTRODUCTION: AI chatbots are being increasingly used in healthcare settings. There is growing interest in using AI to assist in patient education. Currently, extensive healthcare information is found online but is often too complex to understand. Our objective is to determine if physicians can recommend the free versi…

OBJECTIVES: This study primarily aimed to develop a validated Dutch translation of the 28 items of the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) II. A secondary aim was to provide a worked example of a scientifically valid translation process. METHODS: A four-step process was applied: (1) fo…

OBJECTIVE: To identify factors for retained ureteral stents in our institution of patients receiving de novo ureteral stents. Ureteral stent placement, a commonly performed urologic procedure, is a temporary measure and requires timely removal. Retained ureteral stents may result in significant morbidities and need for…

OBJECTIVE: To examine linguistic disparities between English- and Spanish-speaking patients in access to care, satisfaction, and telehealth appointment attendance. DESIGN: Retrospective study recording demographics for non-attendance analysis and conducting phone surveys assessing satisfaction with telehealth. SETTIN…

The current study examines the effect of teacher feedback on fostering self-regulated English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writers. Adopting a quasi-experimental design, this study was conducted among seventy students from two parallel intact English writing classes at the tertiary level. While conventional feedback at…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term isolation and loneliness will cause college students' psychological fluctuations. Especially in online teaching, the lack of communication for a long time has led to a greatly reduced learning enthusiasm of college students. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the cultivation m…

Infants are endowed with a proclivity to acquire language, whether it is presented in the auditory or visual modality. Moreover, in the first months of life, listening to language supports fundamental cognitive capacities, including infants' facility to form object categories (e.g., dogs and bottles). Recently, we have…

Language difficulties can arise from reduced exposure to any given language (e.g. attrition) or after brain damage (e.g. aphasia). The manifestations of attrition and aphasia are often similar so differentiating between their effects on language loss and recovery is challenging. We investigated treatment effects for an…

PURPOSE: This study presents the results of acoustic and kinematic analyses of word-initial semivowels (/ɹ, l, w/) produced by second-language (L2) speakers of English whose native language is Korean. In addition, the relationship of acoustic and kinematic measures to the ratings of foreign accent was examined by…