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PURPOSE: The use of patient-reported outcome questionnaires is recommended in orthopedic studies. However, validated tools are necessary to ensure the comparability of results across different studies, centers, and countries. The Brief Michigan Hand Questionnaire (BMHQ) can be used for outcome measures in self-evaluati…

With this article, we aimed to trace the evolution and impact of eye-related terms common in written English during the past 2 centuries by studying digital resources. Eye-related words and phrases (n-grams) occurring in English books at a frequency of 0.00001% for at least 25 years between 1790 and 2008 were identifie…

BACKGROUND: The ROME III diagnostic questionnaireforpediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) is widely accepted as an essential tool for the diagnosis ofFGIDs in children and as a research tool. However, the questionnaire has not been translated into Thai. OBJECTIVE: To transpose the ROME III diagnostic…

The aim of the present research is to provide a user-friendly index of the relative impairment associated with noise in the aircraft cabin. As such, the relative effect of noise, at a level typical of an aircraft cabin was compared with varying levels of alcohol intoxication in the same subjects. Since the detrimental…

INTRODUCTION: The Constant Score (CS), developed as a scoring system to evaluate overall functionality of patients with shoulder disorders, is widely used but has been criticised for relying on an imprecise terminology and for lack of a standardised methodology. A modified guideline was therefore published in 2008 with…

BACKGROUND: Japanese nurses are increasingly required to read published international research in clinical, educational, and research settings. Language barriers are a significant obstacle, and online machine translation (MT) is a tool that can be used to address this issue. We examined the quality of Google Translate&…

Two experiments examining the subsyllabic division behaviors of Chinese-speaking children learning English as a foreign language (EFL) are reported. In Experiment 1, target phonemes of monosyllabic English nonwords were varied in phonotactic context (e.g., (C)VC vs. (C)CVC), marginality (e.g., (C)CVC vs. C(C)VC), and/o…

BACKGROUND: Several factors contribute to the complexity of pharmacotherapeutic regimens, like the total number of medications to be taken, the number of dosage units to take at a time, dosage frequency, as well as specific directions concerning the administration. The Medication Regimen Complexity Index (MRCI) is a va…

The growth of accelerated graduate entry nursing programs has challenged traditional approaches to teaching and learning. To date, limited research has been undertaken in the role of learning preferences, language proficiency and academic performance in accelerated programs. Sixty-two first year accelerated graduate en…

Although anecdotally there appear to be differences in the way native speakers use and comprehend their native language, most empirical investigations of language processing study university students and none have studied differences in language proficiency, which may be independent of resource limitations such as work…

PURPOSE: To consider interactions of vocal tract change with growth and perceived output patterns across development, the influence of nonuniform vocal tract growth on the ability to reach acoustic-perceptual targets for English vowels was studied. METHOD: Thirty-seven American English speakers participated in a perce…

We sampled 0-group sole juveniles (N = 174) in September and October 2003 in 9 major nurseries located along the French Atlantic coast (English Channel and Bay of Biscay). 0-group sole were infected with 3 genera of digenean metacercariae, Timoniella spp. (Acanthostomidae), Prosorhynchus crucibulum and Prosorhynchus sp…

A two year survey of benthic primary production during periods of emersion was performed on two stations of an intertidal mudflat (a muddy-sand station and a muddy station) in the Seine Estuary (English Channel, France). The goals of this study were to investigate the seasonal variations of metabolism, to estimate dail…

PURPOSE: This study investigated the relationship between home literacy experiences and bilingual pre-schoolers' early literacy outcomes. METHOD: Forty-three Puerto Rican mother-child dyads recruited from Head Start programs in central Pennsylvania participated in this study of home literacy experiences and emerging E…

High prevalences of idiopathic liver lesions, including 7.5% hepatic neoplasms (e.g., hepatocellular and cholangiocellular carcinomas) and 16.7% foci of cellular alteration (putative preneoplastic hepatic lesions), were found in English sole (Parophrys vetulus) from waters near Mukilteo, a small community on Puget Soun…

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…

BACKGROUND: Despite legislative action, pre-existing barriers continue to prevent patients from using patient portals. Patients, especially older people, people of color, and people with limited English proficiency continue to experience difficulty in adopting patient portals. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to a…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of unmet social needs (USN) in a pediatric emergency department (PED) patient population and examine disparities in USN by self-selected language and patient demographics. METHODS: We surveyed a convenience sample of English- and Spanish-speaking caregivers of patients <18-years-…

BACKGROUND: English bulldogs are known to be prone to skeletal problems, but knowledge is lacking of the effect of these problems on locomotion and function. This study was undertaken to report the conformational, orthopaedic and radiographic findings in a cohort of English bulldogs in Finland and to evaluate how these…

Recent evidence suggests that low vitamin D concentrations are associated with increased levels of inflammatory markers. However, there are limited studies investigating associations between vitamin D levels and inflammatory markers in the general population and much of this evidence in older adults is inconclusive. Th…