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BACKGROUND: Mobile health (mHealth) apps hold great potential for asthma self-management. Data on the suitability of asthma apps intended for children are insufficient, and the availability of German language apps is still inadequate compared with English language apps. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to identify functiona…

The bilingual advantage hypothesis proposes that bilingual children will display greater executive function (EF) skills compared to their monolingual peers. However, most research on this topic neglects to include monolingual children from both language groups for comparison, thus confounding language status and cultur…

Radiopharmaceutical services are key in cancer screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment monitoring, detection of remission, and therapy. Unfortunately, due to the high costs of these services, their availability is very limited in developing countries. This study highlights issues related to access to radiopharmaceutic…

For native (L1) English readers, masked presentations of past-tense verb primes (e.g., fell and looked) produce faster lexical decision latencies to their present-tense targets (e.g., FALL and LOOK) than orthographically related (e.g., fill and loose) or unrelated (e.g., master and bank) primes. This facilitation obser…

In this paper, application of morpheme translation method in English translation of TCM was introduced, and its superiorities and limitations were analyzed in order to promote the standardization and improve the confused current status of the English translation of TCM.

This study aims to investigate English preservice teachers' digital competence regarding their self-efficacy in information and communication technologies (ICT), their collaboration with colleagues, and the support they received from the infrastructure. A questionnaire based on the "Digital competence of educators (Dig…

In this study, we examined the word superiority effect in Arabic and English, two languages with significantly different morphological and writing systems. Thirty-two Arabic-English bilingual speakers performed a post-cued letter-in-string identification task in words, pseudo-words, and non-words. The results establish…

We investigated differences in knowledge-based inferencing between rural, middle grade monolingual English-speaking students and English learners. Students were introduced to facts about an imaginary planet Gan followed by a multi-episode story about Gan. Participants were tested on the accuracy of fact recall and infe…

Relative macroglossia has been identified in brachycephalic compared to mesaticephalic dogs. This study assessed the tongue volume comparing three common brachycephalic breeds, including 30 French bulldogs, 30 pugs, and 15 English bulldogs. Computed tomography scans of intubated dogs with the hard palate suspended were…

This dataset includes psycholinguistic data on 694 English-language and 451 Dutch-language novels, acquired with computerised analysis of digitised novels published mainly between 1800 and 2018. The English-language novels have a total word count of 66.9 million words, while the Dutch-language novels comprise 49.6 mill…

Advances in technology make possible certain instructional approaches that heretofore were difficult to implement. One of these advances is the use of computers to present video instructional materials for student-directed learning. In the experimental program described here, we use a bilingual approach to teach aspect…

In the present work we argue for the translation of the English term odds ratio, a term of formal anti-natural esthetics for the Spanish-speaking and with added phonetic difficulties, for oportunidad relativa. These words respect the English abbreviation OR facilitating the expression of consistent formulations which m…

BACKGROUND: The challenge of assessing all languages of multilingual children by clinicians who do not speak the children's heritage languages is a global problem amplified by the increase in recent migration as well as a lack of available assessment tools. AIM: To evaluate the feasibility of using a novel scoring sch…

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the possible impact of simulated hearing loss on speech perception in Spanish-English bilingual children. To avoid confound between individual differences in hearing-loss configuration and linguistic experience, threshold-elevating noise simulating a mild-to-moderate sloping hearing l…

Intonation perception of English speech was examined for English- and Chinese-native listeners. F0 contour was manipulated from falling to rising patterns for the final words of three sentences. Listener's task was to identify and discriminate the intonation of each sentence (question versus statement). English and Chi…

English contains many nominals that would be absent in Chinese because Chinese makes greater use of "zero anaphora," which is an empty grammatical slot in a sentence standing for a previously mentioned referent. Native Chinese and native English speakers were compared in comprehending modified English passages from a s…

OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of English-speaking and German-speaking children with Clarion cochlear implants on the Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (MAIS). SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Prelingually deafened German-speaking children and English-speaking children with Clarion cochlear implants were assessed on t…

Under the circumstances of "Curriculum ideological and political", in order to adapt to the reform of college English teaching and the needs of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), as well as optimize the A-level distinguishable teaching mode of college English stratified teaching, this paper takes the fifth st…