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Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis and Second Language Learning

Journal of ELT Research, 2019
This article aims to provide an overview of some of the issues related to contrastive analysis hypothesis in second language learning. Contrastive hypothesis is one of the branches of applied linguistics which concerns with the study of two systems of languages between first language and target language.
Ali Akbar Khansir, Farhad Pakdel
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A Comparison of Two Theories of Perceived Distance on the Ground Plane: The Angular Expansion Hypothesis and the Intrinsic Bias Hypothesis

i-Perception, 2012
Two theories of distance perception—ie, the angular expansion hypothesis (Durgin and Li, 2011 Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 73 1856–1870) and the intrinsic bias hypothesis (Ooi et al, 2006 Perception 35 605–624)—are compared.
Zhi Li, Frank H Durgin
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Perceptual distinctiveness between dental and palatal sibilants in different vowel contexts and its implications for phonological contrasts

Laboratory Phonology, 2017
Mandarin Chinese has dental, palatal, and retroflex sibilants, but their contrasts before [_i] are avoided: The palatals appear before [i] while the dentals and retroflexes appear before homorganic syllabic approximants (a.k.a. apical vowels).
Jie Zhang, Mingxing Li
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Alzheimer’s disease: the Amyloid hypothesis and the Inverse Warburg effect

Frontiers in Physiology, 2015
Epidemiological and biochemical studies show that the sporadic forms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are characterized by the following hallmarks : (a) An exponential increase with age ; (b) Selective neuronal vulnerability ; (c) Inverse cancer comorbidity ...
Lloyd eDemetrius, Lloyd eDemetrius, Pierre J Magistretti, Pierre J Magistretti, Luc ePellerin   +4 more
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Soft Null Hypotheses: A Case Study of Image Enhancement Detection in Brain Lesions [PDF]

, 2013
This work is motivated by a study of a population of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients using dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) to identify active brain lesions.
Crainiceanu, Ciprian M., Liu, Han, Reich, Daniel S., Shinohara, Russell T., Shou, Haochang   +4 more
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Parent Quality of Life at Two Years Following Their Child's Completion of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Parents of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience significant caregiver burden and disruption to their well‐being. While parent quality of life (QoL) during treatment is well characterized, little is known about outcomes during early survivorship.
Sara Dal Pra, Maria McCarthy, Michael Takagi, Cinzia De Luca   +3 more
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Geographic variation in chin shape challenges the universal facial attractiveness hypothesis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The universal facial attractiveness (UFA) hypothesis proposes that some facial features are universally preferred because they are reliable signals of mate quality.
Zaneta M Thayer, Seth D Dobson
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Spatial contrast sensitivity in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders [PDF]

, 2010
Adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing (TD) controls underwent a rigorous psychophysical assessment that measured contrast sensitivity to seven spatial frequencies (0.5-20 cycles/degree). A contrast sensitivity function
A Bertone, A Lahaie, AB Watson, APA, B Jemel, BS Abrahams, C Deruelle, C Deruelle, C Jarrold, C Kemner, C Lord, DH Kelly, E Ashwin, E Milne, E Milne, E Milne, E Pellicano, EJ Gumbel, Elizabeth Milne, F Faul, F Happé, F Happé, H Tager-Flusberg, HC Hughes, Hwan Cui Koh, J Gwiazda, J Katsyri, JA Movshon, JC Badcock, JE Scharre, JG Robson, JN Constantino, Karen Dobkins, KL Gunther, KR Dobkins, L Beglinger, L Mottron, M Behrmann, M Behrmann, M Rutter, MA Boeschoten, MA Boeschoten, MA Boeschoten, MJ Brosnan, MM Taylor, MV Jonge de, NL Johnson, O Tadevosyan-Leyfer, R Davis, S Risi, V Virsu, WH Ridder, XQ Liu   +52 more
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Cognitive Functioning in Vorinostat‐Treated Pediatric and Young Adult Patients Over the First 180 Days After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Cognitive and psychological difficulties could negatively interfere with treatment adherence and quality of life before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Methods to mitigate these changes may have positive effects on treatment success.
Kristen L. Votruba, Michelle Rozwadowski, Thomas Braun, April Rahrig, Edward Peres, Kirsten M. Williams, Vanessa Fabrizio, Julie‐An Talano, Carrie L. Kitko, Nicolas Parnell, Pavan Reddy, Sung Won Choi   +11 more
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Contrast implementation affects phonetic variability: A case study of Hindi and English stops

Laboratory Phonology, 2021
There is a large body of work in phonetics and phonology demonstrating sources and structure of acoustic variability, showing that variability in speech production is not random.
Ivy Hauser
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