Stochastic density effects on adult fish survival and implications for population fluctuations [PDF]
Ecology Letters, 19(2): 153-162 (2016), 2015 The degree to which population fluctuations arise from variable adult survival relative to variable recruitment has been debated widely for marine organisms. Disentangling these effects remains challenging because data generally are not sufficient to evaluate if and how adult survival rates are regulated by stochasticity and/or population density ...
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Isolated surgical vs. transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a propensity score analysis
The Cardiothoracic Surgeon, 2023 Background The debate about the optimal approach for aortic valve replacement continues. We compared the hospital and long-term outcomes (survival, aortic valve reintervention, heart failure readmissions, and stroke) between transcatheter vs.
Abdulmalik A. Almedimigh +10 more
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Understanding the Use of Voice Assistants by Older Adults [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Older adults are using voice-based technologies in a variety of different contexts and are uniquely positioned to benefit from smart speakers' handsfree, voice-based interface. In order to better understand the ways in which older adults engage with and learn how to use smart speakers, we conducted qualitative, semi-structured interviews with four ...
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COVID-19 and eating disorder and mental health concerns in patients with eating disorders
Journal of Eating Disorders, 2021 Plain English Summary The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders implemented across the world dramatically altered daily life for people of all ages.
Julia A. Vitagliano +8 more
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Child-directed Listening: How Caregiver Inference Enables Children's Early Verbal Communication [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 How do adults understand children's speech? Children's productions over the course of language development often bear little resemblance to typical adult pronunciations, yet caregivers nonetheless reliably recover meaning from them. Here, we employ a suite of Bayesian models of spoken word recognition to understand how adults overcome the noisiness of ...
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Understanding How Older Adults Comprehend COVID-19 Interactive Visualizations via Think-Aloud Protocol [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Older adults have been hit disproportionally hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. One critical way for older adults to minimize the negative impact of COVID-19 and future pandemics is to stay informed about its latest information, which has been increasingly presented through online interactive visualizations (e.g., live dashboards and websites). Thus, it is
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Access to care and worsening eating disorder symptomatology in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Journal of Eating Disorders, 2021 Plain ENGLISH summary The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on our global community’s mental health, in particular those struggling with psychiatric illnesses, such as eating disorders (ED).
Rebecca Spigel +7 more
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How Adults Understand What Young Children Say [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Children's early speech often bears little resemblance to that of adults, and yet parents and other caregivers are able to interpret that speech and react accordingly. Here we investigate how these adult inferences as listeners reflect sophisticated beliefs about what children are trying to communicate, as well as how children are likely to pronounce ...
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Interrelating Library and Basic Education Services for Disadvantaged Adults: A Demonstration of Four Alternative Working Models, Volume II [PDF]
, 1973 An annual report titled Interrelating Library and Basic Education Services for Disadvantaged Adults: A Demonstration of Four Alternative Working Models, Volume II published by the Appalachian Adult Education Center in June of ...
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Respiratory Research, 2022 Background COVID-19 related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has specific characteristics compared to ARDS in other populations. Proning is recommended by analogy with other forms of ARDS, but few data are available regarding its physiological ...
Andrea Boffi +7 more
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