Child-directed Listening: How Caregiver Inference Enables Children's Early Verbal Communication [PDF]
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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Background Elderly patients are underrepresented in clinical study where combined endocrine strategies were compared to endocrine therapy (ET) in hormone receptors positive, HER2 negative, metastatic breast cancer.
Claudia Omarini+9 more
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Geospatial panorama of long-term care facilities in Brazil: a portrait of territorial inequalities
OBJECTIVES: To map the number and geospatial distribution of Brazilian long-term care facilities (LTCFs) for older adults. Additionally, we sought to highlight the relationship between these findings and the number of older people in the country's 27 ...
Tatiana Teixeira Barral de Lacerda+9 more
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Understanding How Older Adults Comprehend COVID-19 Interactive Visualizations via Think-Aloud Protocol [PDF]
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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How Adults Understand What Young Children Say [PDF]
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 ...
arxiv
Population and species neighbor identity impact trait–trait relationships and plant performance
We evaluated how populations and species identity influence plant performance and trait outcomes in mixtures, and assessed trait variation among populations of two forb species native to the western United States (Dieteria canescens and Heterotheca villosa) following three interaction treatments (single‐population monoculture, two‐population mixture ...
Alicia J. Foxx+2 more
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Acute hepatic porphyrias (AHPs) are a family of four rare genetic diseases resulting from a deficiency in one of the enzymes involved in heme biosynthesis.
Matteo Marcacci+5 more
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NT-proBNP as an Additional Marker of Significant Coronary Atherosclerotic Lesions
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause for morbidity and mortality both in Ukraine and in the world, so the relevance of this problem for the society is undeniable.
Oksana Yu. Marchenko+2 more
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Effects of chronic browsing on life‐history traits of an irruptive large herbivore population
This study aimed to determine the relationship between diet quality, body mass, and size (hind foot length), and female reproduction and sought to identify the mechanism by which high density under severe food limitations is maintained. Our results demonstrated that sika deer introduced to Nakanoshima Island have maintained high densities through high ...
Koichi Kaji+9 more
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Cardiac Surgery Associated Acute Kidney Injury, Incidence, and Predictors. Prospective Observational Single Center Study [PDF]
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a condition characterized by a sudden decline in kidney function, leading to accumulation of waste products and fluids in the body.
Nilufar Jabayeva+7 more
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