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This study compared the online comprehension and the production of multiple interrogatives in 18 Romanian-English bilingual children aged 6;0-9;2 ( = 8;0) living in the UK who have Romanian as heritage language (L1) and English as majority language (L2) and 32 Romanian monolingual children aged 6;11 to 9;…

BACKGROUND: Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) experience barriers to healthcare. These include language barriers and difficulty accessing medical subspecialties. Consequently, patients with LEP may be underrepresented, and may be more likely to have abnormal results, among individuals referred for anorect…

School support is of great significance to students' academic quality and overall physical and psychological development. However, there is still ambiguity in the English and Chinese studies on the concept and measurement tools of school support. The data for this study were sourced from the literature on school suppor…

OBJECTIVE: Traditional nondigital methods of participant recruitment for clinical research studies in rheumatology can be costly and inefficient, particularly for recruitment of underserved populations. We aimed to address this need by evaluating two methods of online recruitment to an observational cohort of individua…

OBJECTIVES: This paper looks at how contraceptive prescribing by General Practices in England was affected by the COVID-19pandemic and lockdown. It compares English prescribing data in April - June 2019, the year before COVID19, and April-June 2020, the first three months of 'lockdown'. DESIGN & SETTING: This paper is…

Emotional cues from different modalities have to be integrated during communication, a process that can be shaped by an individual's cultural background. We explored this issue in 25 Chinese participants by examining how listening to emotional prosody in Mandarin influenced participants' gazes at emotional faces in a m…

Languages can use a common repertoire of vocal sounds to signify distinct meanings. In tonal languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, pitch contours of syllables distinguish one word from another, whereas in non-tonal languages, such as English, pitch is used to convey intonation. The neural computations underlying languag…

Purpose The purpose of this study was to find morphological markers with good diagnostic accuracy to identify developmental language disorders (DLD) in Spanish-English bilingual children. Method The participants in this study included 66 Spanish-English bilingual children between the ages of 4;0 and 6;11 (years;months)…

INTRODUCTION Culturally and linguistically diverse populations (CALD) have significant health outcome disparities compared to dominant groups in high-income countries. The use of both navigators and interpreters are strategies used to address these disparities, but the intersections between these two roles can be poorl…

Understanding speech in adverse conditions is affected by experience-a familiar voice is substantially more intelligible than an unfamiliar voice when competing speech is present, even if the content of the speech (the words) are controlled. This familiar-voice benefit is observed consistently, but its underpinnings ar…

Despite the rapid increase in the number of persons with dementia (PWD) receiving home health care (HHC), little is known of HHC services patterns to PWD of varied backgrounds, including language preference other than English. Analyzing data of 12,043 PWD from an urban home health agency, we found on average PWD receiv…

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…

OBJECTIVE: High-attrition rates have been observed in long-term clinical trials of weight loss agents. We evaluated the impact of an innovative retention programme on 1-year retention. METHODS: Three Phase 3 global multicentre clinical trials evaluated the efficacy and safety of a CB1 receptor antagonist in subjects w…

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…