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Narrative Discourse in Young and Older Adults: Behavioral and NIRS Analyses

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2018
Discourse comprehension is at the core of communication capabilities, making it an important component of elderly populations’ quality of life. The aim of this study is to evaluate changes in discourse comprehension and the underlying brain activity ...
C. Martin, S. Pontbriand-Drolet, Valérie Daoust, Eric Yamga, M. Amiri, L. Hübner, B. Ska   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The graffiti artist : doing the work of the lyric through juxtaposition of disparate social discourse : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for Master of Creative Writing, Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2016
One way the lyric has developed over the last century is to accommodate non-poetic social discourses, e.g. languages of prose, genre, profession and cultural groups into the lyric tradition.
Ingram, Gail
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Polarization of coalitions in an agent-based model of political discourse [PDF]

, 2014
Political discourse is the verbal interaction between political actors in a policy domain. This article explains the formation of polarized advocacy or discourse coalitions in this complex phenomenon by presenting a dynamic, stochastic, and discrete ...
A Downs, A Lijphart, AL Barabási, D Baldassarri, D Krackhardt, D Miller, DJ Watts, DR Fisher, DR Fisher, FR Baumgartner, G Wolfsfeld, I Lustick, J Lerner, JM Epstein, KM Ingold, KM Ingold, L Festinger, LC Freeman, LE Cederman, MA Hajer, MD Ward, MEJ Newman, MJ Hinich, N Fairclough, P Leifeld, P Leifeld, P Pierson, PA Hall, PA Sabatier, PE Johnson, R Bhavnani, RB Cialdini, RP Abelson, S Wasserman, SA Marvel, VA Traag   +35 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pazopanib Combined With Vincristine and Irinotecan in Relapsed Wilms Tumor: Encouraging Outcomes in a Heavily Pretreated Pediatric Cohort

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background While Wilms tumor (WT) typically has a favorable prognosis, relapsed cases—especially those with high‐risk histology—remain therapeutically challenging after intensive frontline therapy. The combination of vincristine and irinotecan has demonstrated activity in pediatric solid tumors, and pazopanib, a multi‐targeted tyrosine kinase ...
Maria Debora De Pasquale, Alessandro Crocoli, Giuseppe Maria Milano, Pierluigi Di Paolo, Francesca Diomedi Camassei, Ida Russo, Annalisa Serra   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF ADVERTISING DISCOURSE AS A COMPONENT OF THE INSTITUTIONAL ONE

Записки з українського мовознавства, 2016
This article analyzes the advertising discourse from the perspective of a personality-oriented approach. In this regard, the advertising discourse is now defined as a pragmatically oriented specific type of institutional discourse, which present its ...
О. М. Олексюк
doaj   +1 more source

Early EEG correlates of word frequency and contextual predictability in reading [PDF]

, 2019
Previous research into written language comprehension has been equivocal as to whether word frequency and contextual predictability effects share an early time course of processing.
Hand, Christopher J., Leuthold, Hartmut, MacKenzie, Ian J., Sereno, Sara C., Shahid, Aisha   +4 more
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Potential Early Risk Biomarkers for Reduced Forced Expiratory Volume in Children Post‐Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We sought to identify potential early risk biomarkers for lung disease in children post‐allogeneic HCT. Patients with pulmonary function tests 3 months post‐transplant and plasma samples between days 7 and 14 post‐HCT were included. Six of 27 subjects enrolled had reduced forced expiratory volume 1 (FEV1) z scores.
Isabella S. Small, Pi Chun Cheng, April L. Rahrig, Courtney M. Rowan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acquiring a new discourse : using action research and sociocultural pedagogies to explore how a study group is able to support mature-aged open entry students in their first semesters at university : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2017
This research explores how a study group concurrent with mature-aged open-entry students’ first semesters on the campus of a research university could support those students as they acquired an academic Discourse.
Fry, Prudence Barclay
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