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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Application of Thickened Liquids to Treat Adults With Neurogenic Dysphagia. [PDF]
J Oral RehabilThickeners may enhance swallowing safety in neurogenic dysphagia; however, current evidence remains limited. Further randomised controlled trials are needed to validate their clinical efficacy. ABSTRACT Background Thickened liquids have been one of the cornerstones of routine care to reduce aspiration for dysphagic patients in clinical practice ...
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Is the Swallow Tail Sign a Useful Imaging Biomarker in Clinical Neurology? A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Mov Disord Clin PractABSTRACT Background Loss of dorsolateral nigral hyperintensity (DNH) in iron‐sensitive sequences of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), also described as “swallow tail sign” (STS) loss, has shown promising diagnostic value in Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes (APS).
Tseriotis VS +5 more
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Pain Research and Management, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 Objective. Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) poses a considerable threat to physical, mental, and financial health worldwide. Beyond physical difficulties, CMP has a pronounced impact on pain behaviors and cognitive function. The purpose of this scoping review was to examine the relationship between pain catastrophizing (PC) and cognitive function in ...
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EFL Learners' Receptive Knowledge of Derived Words: The Case of Swedish Adolescents
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 1242-1265, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The study investigated how well Swedish adolescents recognize the meaning of derived words in English and whether this knowledge is determined by learner proficiency, word frequency, or affix type. Participants were 88 school students in two proficiency groups: 39 advanced 12th graders and 49 intermediate 9th graders.
Per Snoder, Batia Laufer
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A systematic review of cognitive and behavioral tools to differentiate behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia from other conditions. [PDF]
PCN RepThis study systematically reviewed clinical tools that differentiate behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) from other conditions. Most studies were of low quality; however, the few high‐quality studies indicated that behavioral and social cognition tests have good performance in differentiating bvFTD from a range of psychiatric and ...
Flavell J, Nestor PJ.
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Current Protocols, Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The generation and interpretation of results from transcriptome profiling experiments via RNA sequencing (RNA‐seq) can be a complex task. While raw data quality control, alignment, and quantification can be streamlined via efficient algorithms that can deliver the preprocessed expression matrix, a common bottleneck in the analysis of such ...
Annekathrin Ludt +4 more
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Image text description is a multimodal data processing problem in the computer field, which involves the research tasks of computer vision and natural language processing. At present, the research focus of image text description task is mainly on the method based on deep learning. The work of this paper is mainly focused on the imprecise description of
Cifeng Qin +3 more
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Estimations of Japanese university learners' English vocabulary sizes using the vocabulary size test
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014 Measuring students’ lexica is time-consuming, as one sitting of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) usually takes 4060 minutes. As a result, teachers would benefit from being able to make reasonable estimates from commonly available information.
Stuart McLean +2 more
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Educare, 2022 Critical thinking (CT) is considered important in second language (L2) learning. Previous studies have investigated and confirmed a correlation between critical thinking and L2 learning in face-to-face (f2f) learning.
Evelina Johansson
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Lexize: A test to quickly assess vocabulary knowledge in Finnish
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Volume 62, Issue 6, Page 806-819, December 2021., 2021 Proficiency in a language is strongly related to how well and how many words one knows. Vocabulary knowledge correlates with reading comprehension and general communication ability. Due to the increasing amount of research within the field of psycholinguistics and second language acquisition in Finnish, a standardized test to objectively measure ...
ROSA SALMELA +3 more
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