Subtlex-UK: A New and Improved Word Frequency Database for British English [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2014 We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based on the
Walter J. B. van Heuven +3 more
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Measurement properties of the UK-English version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales [PDF]
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2005 Background Health related quality of life (HRQL) has been recognised as an important paediatric outcome measurement. One of the more promising measures to emerge in recent years is the Pediatric Quality Of Life Inventory (PedsQL™), developed in the US ...
Maddocks Alison +7 more
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Norms and Authority in Language: the Case of UK English [PDF]
Sociolinguistica, 2014 M. Saraceni, J. Williams, S. Wright
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Fertility, Health and Education of UK Immigrants: The Role of English Language Skills [PDF]
Research Papers in Economics, 2015 This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on fertility, health and education outcomes of immigrants in England and Wales.
Y. Aoki, Lualhati Santiago
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Changes in health in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 [PDF]
The Lancet, 2018 Nicholas Steel +43 more
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Gender bias in video game dialogue
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Gender biases in fictional dialogue are well documented in many media. In film, television and books, female characters tend to talk less than male characters, talk to each other less than male characters talk to each other, and have a more limited range
Stephanie Rennick +7 more
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Cardiffians’ perceptions of English in the UK
Journal of Linguistic Geography, 2020 AbstractThis Perceptual Dialectology (PD) study asked residents of Cardiff, Wales, about their perceptions of English in the United Kingdom (UK). In addition, because face to face exposure to dialect variation has rarely been included as a variable in PD studies, participants were asked about their travel experience to ascertain whether this might ...
Nicole Chartier +2 more
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A foresight whole systems obesity classification for the English UK biobank cohort [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Abstract Background The number of people living with obesity or who are overweight presents a global challenge, and the development of effective interventions is hampered by a lack of research which takes a joined up, whole system, approach that considers multiple elements of the complex obesity system together.
Clark, S, Lomax, N, Birkin, M, Morris, M
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A COMPARISON OF LASER SCANNING AND STRUCTURE FROM MOTION AS APPLIED TO THE GREAT BARN AT HARMONDSWORTH, UK [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013 The great barn at Harmondsworth near London Heathrow airport, United Kingdom (UK), was built in 1426–7 for the Bishop of Winchester. At 58 metres long and 11.4 metres wide, it is one of the largest ever known to have been built in the UK, and the ...
D. P. Andrews, J. Bedford, P. G. Bryan
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