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Language Arts (6):
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Science & Justice (50)2 2010
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This article compares the skill with which a large sample of Arabic writers was able to simulate different handwriting elements in two Arabic signatures. The data agree with the consensus of experts about Roman script: Form is significantly better simulated than Proportion, and Proportion is signifi...
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PMID: 20470739
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The findings of this study suggest that Chinese Singaporean preschoolers with CLP have more difficulty in the expressive use of grammar and vocabulary than their peers of typical development, with significantly more males affected than females. As language performance was not related to hearing, art...
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PMID: 20202695
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Pediatrics (124 Suppl 4)supplement 2009
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Although limited by program eligibility contingent on immigrant status and state policies, increased referrals to programs such as the State Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid can improve access while utilization can be improved by the availability of interpreters, community health wor...
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PMID: 19948607
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ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to assess the usability of a new Internet-based Caregiver Support Service (ICSS) and evaluate its effects on health outcomes of Chinese Canadians who cared for a family member with dementia. Demographic and questionnaire data were collected from 28 participants, and...
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PMID: 19925698
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The group mean of pediatric CI users' accuracy in lexical tone identification was 88.02% (SD = 6.31%) in the experimental condition and 83.82% (SD = 9.84%) in the control condition. The group mean was 4.20% (SD = 5.48%) higher in the experimental condition than that in the control condition; this di...
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PMID: 19132634
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We evaluated language development in deaf Italian preschoolers with hearing parents, taking into account the duration of formal language experience (i.e., the time elapsed since wearing a hearing aid and beginning language education) and different methods of language education. Twenty deaf children...
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PMID: 18535300
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Acta Psychologica (128)1 2008
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A training paradigm was used to assess the early stages of the acquisition of novel letter strings in adults. Provision of either phonological or semantic information during training improved spelling recognition (Experiment 1). Manipulation of the processing required during training (phonological,...
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PMID: 18234152
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Journal of Music Therapy (45)4 2008
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This study investigated the ability of children with implants who speak Mandarin Chinese, a tonal language, to recognize familiar melodies. It further examined the relative contributions of pitch, rhythm, and lyrics to melody recognition. Two groups of participants (ages 7-15; n = 20 for each group)...
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PMID: 19256724
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Performance on the COAT-VF was influenced by age and sociocultural factors but not sex. CONCLUSION: The COAT-VF, short and simple to administer, allows for an accurate evaluation of PTA duration in French children....
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PMID: 17765352
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Disability and Rehabilitation (30)20-22 2008
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Purpose. To translate and adapt the English VISA-A questionnaire to Italian, to perform reliability and validity evaluations of the Italian VISA-A version in patients with tendinopathy of the main body of the Achilles tendon. Methods. The VISA-A English version was translated into Italian by a bilin...
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PMID: 18608373
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The internal consistency of the VHI proved to be good. Confirmatory factor analysis across countries revealed that a 3-factor fixed measurement model best fitted the data; the 3 subscales appeared to highly intercorrelated, especially in the US data. The underlying structure of the VHI was also equi...
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PMID: 18434740
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Journal de Chirurgie (145)2 2008
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Sante mentale au Quebec (33)2 2008
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The objective of this article is to systematically assess the quality of web-based information in French language on the alcohol dependence. The authors analysed, using a standardised pro forma, the 20 most highly ranked pages identified by 3 common internet search engines using 2 keywords. Results...
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PMID: 19370264
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Journal of Neuroscience (27)50 2007
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We investigated the neural mechanisms of language switching during auditory perception in bilinguals. Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 12 early, highly proficient Italian/French bilinguals, who were more exposed to their second language. Subjects had to listen to...
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PMID: 18077688
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We show that sentences containing ambiguous pronouns are processed at the same speed as those containing unambiguous pronouns under shallow processing, but more slowly under deep processing. We outline three possible models to account for the shallow processing of ambiguous pronouns. Two involve an...
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PMID: 17853228
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The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology (18)3 2007
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Minimal Standard Terminology has been shown to cover a high proportion of routine endoscopy reports. Good user acceptance proves that both the terms and structure of Minimal Standard Terminology were consistent with usual clinical thinking. However, future work on Minimal Standard Terminology is man...
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PMID: 17891688
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Pediatrics (120)3 2007
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Retrospective review of kindergarten-entry immunization data revealed geographic areas with lower immunization coverage, and geocoding to census tracts identified associated sociodemographic risk factors. This is a practical method for state or city health departments to identify pockets of need and...
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PMID: 17682037
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Revue medicale suisse (3)121 2007
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Forty-eight percent of women reported that they had been screened or given information about sexual violence by a HCP. Only 6% of women expressed discomfort with being screened, and more than 95% found the information given to them by HCPs to be helpful. Latina, less educated, and monolingual Spanis...
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PMID: 17547896
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We report our preliminary data on the relationship between the English proficiency of 51,223 researchers registered in the CNPq database and their publication output in international journals. We have found that publication rates are higher for those authors with good command of English, particularl...
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PMID: 17581671
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This paper reports a statistical study on the sequence of strokes of 61 commonly encountered Chinese radicals and characters written by 372 invited subjects. The distribution of different writing sequence of these Chinese radicals and characters was examined. Comparison of the sequence of strokes ex...
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PMID: 17316253
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Comprehensive Psychiatry (48)3 2007
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I is heart/lung failure concern; factor II, psychological concern; factor III, physical concern; and factor IV, social concern. In addition, multiple regression analysis showed that the ASI score significantly correlated only with the neuroticism-related category of the NEO-Personality Inventory Rev...
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PMID: 17445525
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Global Health Promotion (14)3 2007
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We discuss how the refugee youth programs met a broad range of needs as well as providing language, literacy and basic education to newly arrived young people. While working in an environment of changing policy and public opinion regarding refugee issues, the Project delivered successful outcomes at...
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PMID: 18154223
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The results suggest that most children with SLI have access to modality functions such as ability and permission. However, the findings of Study 3 suggest that they may have a reduced inventory of modal forms or difficulty expressing the same function in both past and non-past contexts. These potent...
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PMID: 17365094
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These results indicate that subjects with NSCLP show abnormalities in the function of the distributed neural circuitry used for oral reading....
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PMID: 17105320
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The Ibadan Knee Hip osteoarthritis Outcome measure (IKHOAM) was developed for patients with Knee/Hip Osteoarthritis in the Nigerian and similar environments. The Yoruba Version was developed to encourage its use in the Southwestern region of Nigeria. The IKHOAM was translated into Yoruba in four sep...
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PMID: 17312744
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Revue des Maladies Respiratoires (23)3 Pt 1 2006
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The F-PMH/PSQ-MD is a questionnaire which addresses outpatients' satisfaction with their doctor, and is now available for research purpose as well as for daily practice....
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PMID: 16788523
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Journal of Hand Therapy (19)3 2006
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The purpose of this study was to translate, adapt, and validate a Greek version of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) Questionnaire. The English version of DASH was translated into Greek (DASH-GR) and cultural adaptation was performed. Subsequently, psychometric properties and va...
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PMID: 16861133
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Journal of Hand Therapy (19)1 2006
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With increasing economic globalization, including health care, it is important to use standardized outcome measures applicable to a broad spectrum of patients in a wide array of countries. The purpose of this study was to verify construct and content validity and reliability of the Chinese version o...
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PMID: 16473730
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Endocrine Practice (12)5 2006
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Few trainees raised the possibility of low patient literacy, even when provided clues (25% in Group A vs 4% in Group B, P=.003). Furthermore, while most trainees listed patient education as an important means of preventing another readmission, only 16% suggested using a strategy recommended for low-...
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PMID: 16307631
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Clinical Rehabilitation (19)6 2005
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The average completion percentages for the different dimensions was 84.2% (range 72-97%). With respect to the completion feasibility of the physical mobility subscale, 7-20% of neuromuscular disease patients failed to complete four items out of eight. In the pain subscale, the same difficulty was en...
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PMID: 16180600
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The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) is a scale for assessing health-related quality of life of children and adolescents aged 2--18 years. Three reports of PedsQL for the age ranges 2--4 years and 5--7 years were translated into Chinese and their validities were examined. A total of 186...
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PMID: 16046915
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We suggest that the CPFBS is ready to be used by clinicians and researchers in the study on family burden of individuals with schizophrenia in Hong Kong and in Chinese communities in other countries....
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PMID: 16046926
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Perceptual and Motor Skills (100)3 Pt 1 2005
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This brief report provides descriptive data on uses of language in emotional writing to give some dues on the mechanism of emotional writing. Two written samples, emotional writing and superficial writing, were analyzed using the program, Korean Linguistic and Word Count. Emotional writing has more...
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PMID: 16060456
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Pediatrics (115)5 2005
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Fatty acid supplementation may offer a safe efficacious treatment option for educational and behavioral problems among children with DCD. Additional work is needed to investigate whether our inability to detect any improvement in motor skills reflects the measures used and to assess the durability o...
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PMID: 15867048
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Eighty Tunisian patients with low back pain were included in the validation study. Two items were excluded. Inter-rater reliability was excellent (ICC = 0.98). Expected divergent and convergent validity results suggested good construct validity. Two main factors were extracted by factor analysis and...
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PMID: 15664678
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Human Heredity (59)3 2005
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Mean values for probands and their siblings were different for both the spelling and the reading phenotype. For the probands, variances of the phenotype spelling were smaller. These effects became stronger with more extreme selection criteria. Both siblings fulfilled the 1SD criterion for spelling a...
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PMID: 15867474
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Annals of Human Biology (32)2 2005
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To provide equitable genetics education services, the needs of a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) population must be addressed. The mission of the Centre for Genetics Education (CGE) in Australia articulates a commitment to fostering community partnerships, implementing educational strat...
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PMID: 16096219
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Developmental Psychology (41)1 2005
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The authors used microgenetic methods in 2 experiments to examine children's and adults' progress from initial attempts at spelling nonwords to later direct memory retrieval of the spellings. Participants repeatedly spelled nonwords presented in computerized, dictated-word spelling tests over severa...
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PMID: 15656745
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The Mand-IPSS is a suitable, reliable, valid and sensitive instrument to measure clinical change in the Malaysian population....
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PMID: 15661053
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Clinical Medicine (5)4 2005
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This study introduces a Portuguese-language version of psychopathy checklist-revised (PCL-R) [Harv. Mental Health Lett. 12 (1995) 4] in the Brazilian penitentiary system. Hare's scale is used extensively in many other countries. In a forensic population sample of 56 male subjects classified as psych...
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PMID: 15541584
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Journal of Hand Therapy (18)1 2005
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These results are similar to previous studies on the DASH questionnaire supporting linguistic and conceptual equivalence of the Canadian French version....
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PMID: 15674785
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Psychological Reports (95)3 Pt 2 2004
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We examined how final grades in mathematics and verbal arts in the first year of high school (Grade 11) were predicted in a Norwegian population by sex, previous grades in middle school (Grade 10), self-concept, self-efficacy at a domain-specific level, and intrinsic motivation. Direct and indirect...
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PMID: 15762400
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The internal consistency of the Taiwan version of the DASH questionnaire was high (Cronbach alpha = 0.96) and the test-retest reliability was satisfactory (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.9). Principal axis factor analysis confirmed the 1-factor model. The Pearson correlation coefficients of...
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PMID: 15490028
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ANZ Journal of Surgery (74)8 2004
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Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor was the pre-eminent British surgeon of the first half of the twentieth century. He became known for his daring cancer surgery which he perfected at the Middlesex Hospital, and he promoted early operation for abdominal gunshot wounds in World War I. During World War II, as a...
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PMID: 15315576
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the reliability and validity of a dedicated assessment tool for lateral epicondylitis after translation into Hong Kong Chinese. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: District hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS: Seventy-four patients, 12 of whom were bilingual, were recruited (to...
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PMID: 15181221
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