Comprehension

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The ability to learn new word meanings from context by school-age children with and without language comprehension difficulties.

This study investigated young childrens ability to use narrative contexts to infer the meanings of novel vocabulary items. Two groups of 15 seven- to eight-year olds participated: children with normally developing reading comprehension skill and children ...
Kate Cain, Jane V Oakhill, Carsten Elbro (J Child Lang, 200308)
ability-learn-new-word-meanings-context-school-age-children-language.asp

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Interplay between syntax and semantics during sentence comprehension: ERP effects of combining syntactic and semantic violations.

This study investigated the effects of combined semantic and syntactic violations in relation to the effects of single semantic and single syntactic violations on language-related event-related brain potential (ERP) effects (N400 and P600/SPS). Syntactic ...
Peter Hagoort (J Cogn Neurosci, 200308)
interplay-syntax-semantics-sentence-comprehension-erp-effects.asp

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The cumulative advance of human know-how.

Modern humans possess an enormous amount of know-how that enables them to do things that early humans could not dream of doing. This paper explores some promising connections between two bodies of empirical research and theorizing that bear on ...
Katherine Nelson, Richard R Nelson (Philos Transact Ser A Math Phys Eng Sci, 200308)
cumulative-advance-human-know-how.asp

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Do parents understand emergency department discharge instructions? A survey analysis.

BACKGROUND: Understanding discharge instructions is crucial to optimal healing but may be compromised in the hectic environment of the emergency department. OBJECTIVES: To determine parents understanding of ED discharge instructions and factors that may ...
Yehezkel Waisman, Naomi Siegal, Michal Chemo, Gil Siegal, Lisa Amir, Yoram Blachar, Marc Mimouni (Isr Med Assoc J, 200308)
parents-understand-emergency-department-discharge-instructions-survey.asp

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The uninformed orthodontic patient and parent: treatment outcomes.

In both medical and dental settings, researchers have found that patients do not always adequately comprehend the information given during informed consent discussions. The objective of this study was to evaluate patient and parent understanding of the ...
Jessica F Baird, H Asuman Kiyak (Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop, 200308)
uninformed-orthodontic-patient-parent-treatment-outcomes.asp

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Analysis of factors associated with increased prescription illegibility: results from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1990-1998.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence of, and the variables affecting, illegible drug prescriptions in the United States. METHODS: Illegible notations of medications (ie, drug mentions) on the patient record form used for data collection in the National ...
Aditya K Gupta, Elizabeth A Cooper, Steven R Feldman, Alan B Fleischer, Rajesh Balkrishnan (Am J Manag Care, 200308)
analysis-factors-associated-increased-prescription-illegibility.asp

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Hospital to home: Improving internal medicine residents understanding of the needs of older persons after a hospital stay.

Physicians-in-training discharge many older patients from the hospital, but few have any knowledge of what happens to the patients they send home, of how discharge plans are applied, or of the difficulties patients and their families face. The authors ...
Colleen A Matter, Jenny A Speice, Robert McCann, Daniel Ari Mendelson, Kevin McCormick, Susan Friedman, Annette Medina-Walpole, Nancy S Clark (Acad Med, 200308)
hospital-home-improving-internal-medicine-residents-understanding.asp

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The impact of gender on high-stakes dental evaluations.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether gender affects high-stakestest performance among dental students. Our sample consisted of 128 women and 323 men from six consecutive dental classes for which we recorded AADSAS overall and science ...
Henry W Fields, Anne M Fields, F Michael Beck (J Dent Educ, 200306)
impact-gender-high-stakes-dental-evaluations.asp

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Effects of age and speed of processing on rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension.

Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to determine the effect of age on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) during syntactic processing in sentence comprehension. PET activity associated with making plausibility judgments about syntactically more ...
David Caplan, Gloria Waters, Nathaniel Alpert (Hum Brain Mapp, 200306)
effects-age-speed-processing-rcbf-correlates-syntactic-processing.asp

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Cigarette smoking and cognitive decline in midlife: evidence from a prospective birth cohort study.

OBJECTIVES: The authors investigated the effects of cigarette smoking on midlife cognitive performance. METHODS: Multiple regression was used to test the association between cigarette smoking and changes in cognitive test scores among male and female ...
Marcus Richards, Martin J Jarvis, Neil Thompson, Michael E J Wadsworth (Am J Public Health, 200306)
cigarette-smoking-cognitive-decline-midlife-evidence-prospective.asp