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The patterns of language choice at the border of Malaysia-Thailand

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016
Any activities conducted at the boundary area between countries will only be successful if the community of speakers has mutual understanding in terms of language, especially those involving business.
Mohammad Fadzeli Jaafar, Norsimah Mat Awal, Mohammed Azlan Mis, Norhayati Lateh   +3 more
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Clinician Word Use in Dementia Evaluation Reports as a Function of Cognitive Impairment

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2020
Objectives: To examine the extent to which levels of cognitive status influence patterns of word use in dementia evaluation reports. Methods: We utilized neuropsychological evaluation reports from 61 geriatric primary care patients referred for suspected
Lauren B. Flaherty MS, MA, Benjamin T. Mast PhD   +1 more
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LANGUAGE AND GENDER – MALE AND FEMALE LANGUAGE PATTERNS IN THE GREEK SERIES MHN APXIZEIΣ THN MOYPMOYPA

Filolog, 2023
Television is a dominant medium that can influence one’s attitude and social ideologies formation since it reflects sociolinguistic reality and maintains language ideologies and existing social stereotypes.
Maja G. Baćić Ćosić
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sign Language Recognition using Sequential Pattern Trees [PDF]

2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2012
This paper presents a novel, discriminative, multi-class classifier based on Sequential Pattern Trees. It is efficient to learn, compared to other Sequential Pattern methods, and scalable for use with large classifier banks. For these reasons it is well suited to Sign Language Recognition. Using deterministic robust features based on hand trajectories,
Eng-Jon Ong, Helen Cooper, Nicolas Pugeault, Richard Bowden   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani, Rachel K. Peterson, Avani D. Rao, Laurie J. McKenzie, Ahmed Magdy Elmotayam, Leslie Chang, Michael Roth, Susan L. McGovern   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detecting causality from online psychiatric texts using inter-sentential language patterns

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2012
Background Online psychiatric texts are natural language texts expressing depressive problems, published by Internet users via community-based web services such as web forums, message boards and blogs. Understanding the cause-effect relations embedded in
Wu Jheng-Long, Yu Liang-Chih, Chang Pei-Chann   +2 more
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Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben, Marisa H. Huisman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Femke K. Aarsen, Marita Partanen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluative Language in High-Stakes Public Speaking: A Corpus Analysis of Miss Universe Q&A Sessions

Journal of Digital Sociohumanities
This paper is part of a broader research project examining evaluative language in the high-stakes public speaking context of the Miss Universe (MU) pageant, contributing to our understanding of spontaneous speech patterns. It investigates the evaluative
Long Viet Le, Lien-Huong Vo
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Sprachliche Verfestigung und sprachlich Verfestigtes.

Linguistik Online, 2019
The present special issue of Linguistik Online is dedicated to theoretical and methodological approaches to formulaic language use from a pragmatic perspective. Following the assumption that language use is thoroughly shaped by routines and prefabricated
Simon Meier, Bettina Bock, Konstanze Marx, Robert Mroczynski, Sven Staffeldt   +4 more
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