ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Evaluating the Association Between Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (Rs1801131 and Rs1801133) Gene Polymorphisms and Severity of Coronary Lesions in Patients With STEMI and NSTEMI: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
Nazarzadeh B+6 more
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ABSTRACT This article examines the contested status of “sign language” in Singapore by exploring deaf people's experiences of the “Mother Tongues”—the state's designation for the official languages of Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil—with a particular focus on the relationships that deaf Chinese Singaporeans have with Mandarin.
Timothy Y. Loh
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Linguistic and Musical Syntax Processing in Autistic and Non-Autistic Individuals: An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Study. [PDF]
Li J+7 more
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Abstract Background Erectile dysfunction (ED) affects up to 50% of men over 40. While phosphodiesterase‐5 inhibitors (PDE5i) are the first line of medical treatment, they are not always effective. Alprostadil, available in injectable, topical, and intraurethral forms, offers an alternative treatment modality.
Iason Papadopoulos+8 more
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Effect of Homoarginine on Coronary Artery Complexity and Atherosclerotic Burden in Patients with STEMI. [PDF]
Bingöl G+9 more
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Summary R graphics has provided the ability to draw simple text labels on plots since R version 1.0.0. However, these basic text‐drawing facilities are quite limited. Over the past 25 years, more sophisticated text‐drawing features have been added: support for the Unicode character set; access to system fonts; text paths; support for text markup; and ...
Paul Murrell
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Functional Complete Revascularization as Determined by an Optimized Scoring System After Revascularization: A Post Hoc Analysis from Multi-Center PANDA III Trial. [PDF]
Zhang R+15 more
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Introduction to the Best Practice Recommendations for Longitudinal Latent Transition Analysis. [PDF]
Moore EWG, Quartiroli A, Little TD.
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Results from Cardiovascular Examination Do Not Predict Cerebrovascular Macroangiopathy: Data from a Prospective, Bicentric Cohort Study. [PDF]
Lepek J+3 more
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