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The English language requirement by the NMC is far higher than that for UK universities, and it is hurting nursing and patient outcomes.

SIGNIFICANCE: This study suggests that Chinese newspaper characters are more legible than English newspaper letters. Characters in Chinese newspapers have higher acuity reserve than English newspapers. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate visual demand and acuity reserve for Chinese newspapers in compari…

OBJECTIVES: The effects of socially evaluated tasks on stress-related behavior and physiology are often studied under artificial experimental conditions, such as contrived public speaking. Less is known about these behavioral and physiological dimensions under more routine conditions, such as family interactions. Here,…

Purpose In African American English and Southern White English, we examined whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) overtly mark tense and agreement structures at lower percentages than typically developing (TD) controls, while also examining the effects of dialect, structure, and scoring approach. Met…

Spanish-speaking language-minority (LM) children are at an elevated risk of struggling academically and display signs of that risk during early childhood. Therefore, high-quality research is needed to identify instructional techniques that promote the school readiness of Spanish-speaking LM children. The primary purpos…

BACKGROUND: MEDLINE is the most widely used medical bibliographic database in the world. Most of its citations are in English and this can be an obstacle for some researchers to access the information the database contains. We created a multilingual query builder to facilitate access to the PubMed subset using a langua…

BACKGROUND: Globalization of the professions has become a necessity among schools and universities across the world. It has affected the medical and dental professions in terms of curriculum design and student and patient needs. In Japan, where medicine and dentistry are taught mainly in the Japanese language, professi…

OBJECTIVES: To examine the role of ethnicity and language in parental desire and motivation to be present for children's anesthesia induction. AIM: To compare motivation for parental presence at induction of anesthesia (PPIA) between English- and Spanish-speaking White and Hispanic parents of children undergoing outpa…

AIMS: To identify the frequency of non-English languages used in general practice consultations and to explore the effects on practice for general practitioners (GPs). METHODS: Randomly selected Auckland GPs were telephone-interviewed using standardised questions. Interview data were entered electronically in real tim…

BACKGROUND: Research has shown that Hispanic women who speak mostly English have higher smoking rates than those who speak mostly another language. It is unknown how differences in smoking by English language use among adult Hispanic women in California have changed in recent years. METHODS: We compared current daily…

The visual cues of lexical tones are more implicit and much less investigated than consonants and vowels, and it is still unclear what facial areas contribute to facial tones identification. This study investigated Chinese and English speakers' eye movements when they were asked to identify audiovisual Mandarin lexical…

The paper investigated possible perceptual insensitivity effects in the perception of lexical pitch accents by native and non-native listeners, that is, by Serbian and English listeners, respectively. The objective of the study was to explore which word-prosodic categories listeners used when they were required to cont…

Medicaid beneficiaries in most states must go through a redetermination process every 6-12 months to demonstrate continued eligibility. This study sought to examine Medicaid redetermination experiences among beneficiaries with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). A sequential mixed methods study was conducted involv…

The present work re-evaluates the long-standing claim that demonstratives are among infants' earliest and most common words. Although demonstratives are deictic words important for joint attention, deictic gestures and non-word vocalizations could serve this function in early language development; the role of demonstra…

Prominence, the expression of informational weight within utterances, can be signaled by prosodic highlighting (, as in English) or by position (as in Korean). Prominence confers processing advantages, even if conveyed only by discourse manipulations. Here we compared processing of prominence in English and Korean, usi…

The future of internationally-oriented French-language medical journals depends on two objectives: securing the vast audience of potential English-speaking readers (ten times as great as the number of French readers) without whom there can be no international impact; and enlarging the number of French-speaking readers.…

The death of the English National Health Service (NHS) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. This article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

This paper explores the influences of linguistic-cultural differences between Chinese and Western medicine on the English translation of Chinese medicinal terms/literature from such aspects as ideographic, phonetic writings and thinking modes, Chinese and Western medical terms, as well as Classic literature of Chinese…

BACKGROUND: Approximately 25 million people in the United States have limited English proficiency. Current developments in orthopaedic surgery, such as the expansion of preoperative education classes or patient-reported outcome collection in response to bundled payment models, may exacerbate language-related barriers.…

BACKGROUND: The readability of most online patient educational materials (OPEMs) in orthopaedic surgery is above the American Medical Association/National Institutes of Health recommended reading level of sixth grade for both English- and Spanish-language content. The current project evaluates ChatGPT's performance acr…