The relationship between semantic integrity and recall of known and unknown words and nonwords: Preliminary data from Chinese aphasic individuals

2006 ◽  
Vol 99 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 98-99
Author(s):  
Winsy Wong ◽  
Sam-Po Law
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Unknown Words ◽  
The Relationship

Carnitine Deficiency in Epilepsy: Risk Factors and Treatment

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 2S32-2S39 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Coulter
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Metabolic Diseases ◽  
Drug Effects ◽  
Carnitine Deficiency ◽  
Free Carnitine ◽  
Specific Drug ◽  
Asymptomatic Patients ◽  
The Relationship

Numerous studies have shown that plasma carnitine levels are significantly lower in patients taking valproate than in controls. Free carnitine deficiency is not uncommon in these patients and also occurs in newborns with seizures and in patients taking other anticonvulsant drugs. Carnitine deficiency in epilepsy results from a variety of etiologic factors including underlying metabolic diseases, nutritional inadequacy, and specific drug effects. The relationship between carnitine deficiency and valproate-induced hepatotoxicity is unclear. Carnitine treatment does not always prevent the emergence of serious hepatotoxicity, but it does alleviate valproate-induced hyperammonemia. These studies suggest that specific risk factors for carnitine deficiency can be identified. Preliminary data suggest that carnitine treatment may benefit high-risk, symptomatic patients and those with free carnitine deficiency. Carnitine treatment is not likely to benefit low-risk, asymptomatic patients and those with normal carnitine levels. (J Child Neurol 1995;10(Suppl):2S32-2S39).

scholarly journals The Relationship between Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge of Thai EFL Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Sarunya Tarat
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Identification Test ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Unknown Words ◽  
The Relationship

This study focuses on the relationship between morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge of English among Thai EFL university students. All participants are taking English language as their major field in the universities situated at the lower northern region of Thailand. The morphological awareness identification test was employed to identify the linkage between morphological awareness and vocabulary gain Thai EFL learners. The test was divided into 2 parts: self-checking and morpheme identification. Fifty English vocabularies in intermediate and upper-intermediate level were used in the test in which the participants were requested to check whether they have seen the vocabularies in the test and also asked to break those vocabularies into morphemic units. The results showed that the participants possessed an adequate level of morphological awareness to break words into morphemes correctly even though they were unknown words of the participants. Additionally, the findings also revealed that there is no significant difference between male and female in acquiring morphological awareness of English and gaining English vocabularies.

scholarly journals The Phonosemantics of the Sibilant Sounds of the Arabic and English Languages

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asst Prof Nafila Sabri Qudissya
Keyword(s):  
Unknown Words ◽  
General Meaning ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Classical Arabic

Understanding the general meaning of phonemes and their combinations helps to guess the meaning of unknown words intuitively. The aim of this paper is to examine a group of Arabic as well as English phoneme combinations as examples to prove they have some specific common meaning, a so-called DNA that can be traced in all given words. Thus, a group of selected words were chosen from the Holy Qur'an whose language represents the Classical Arabic variety. It has been assumed that the relationship between phonemes and what they signify is non-arbitrary. It is determined that certain consonant combinations retain their meanings. Thus, upon closer examination, words that are not similar to one another but which have identical consonant phonemes combinations bear an element of meaning which is absent in words not containing such combinations.

scholarly journals OLDER PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S211-S211
Author(s):  
Toni C Antonucci
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Specific Effect ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Good News ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The use of multiple technologies in the service of social relations in widely evident. It is not at all clear, however, that we recognize the fundamental changes in social relations that are occurring as a result. Some changes are quite positive, e.g., low cost maintenance of geographically distant but emotionally close relationships. Others can be quite negative, e.g., the lost ability to gauge emotional reactions through face-to-face contact, often resulting in unnecessarily hurtful behaviors. Preliminary data indicate that people selectively use different forms of communication under positive circumstances, e.g. to transmit good news; or negative circumstances, e.g. resolve a dispute/express anger and dependent on the nature or closeness of the relationship e.g., parent, spouse, child. We need to be mindful of the good, the bad, and the ugly of technology; and, its specific effect on the relationships of and with older people.

The presence of biofilm-producing bacteria on tonsils is associated with increased exhaled nitric oxide levels: preliminary data in children who experience recurrent exacerbations of chronic tonsillitis

2015 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Torretta ◽  
P Marchisio ◽  
L Drago ◽  
P Capaccio ◽  
E Baggi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Causative Factor ◽  
Exhaled Nitric Oxide ◽  
Chronic Tonsillitis ◽  
Bacterial Biofilms ◽  
Nitric Oxide Level ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractBackground:It has been suggested that bacterial biofilms may be a causative factor in the aetiopathogenesis of chronic tonsillitis. Involvement of exhaled nitric oxide has been previously considered, with conflicting findings.Objective:A pilot study was performed to investigate the relationship between exhaled nitric oxide levels and the presence of tonsillar biofilm-producing bacteria in children with chronic tonsillitis.Method:Tonsillar biofilm-producing bacteria on bioptic specimens taken during tonsillectomy were assessed by means of spectrophotometry.Results:Analysis was based on 24 children aged 5–10 years (median, 7.5 years). Biofilm-producing bacteria were found in 40.9 per cent of specimens. The median exhaled nitric oxide level was 11.6 ppb (range, 3.2–22.3 ppb). There was a significant relationship between the presence of biofilm-producing bacteria and increased exhaled nitric oxide levels (p = 0.03). Children with exhaled nitric oxide levels of more than 8 ppb were at three times greater risk of developing tonsillar biofilm-producing bacteria than those with lower levels.Conclusion:Our findings suggest the possibility of discriminating children with chronic biofilm-sustained tonsillar infections on the basis of exhaled nitric oxide levels.

Word Familiarity and Retention

1974 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Loewenthal ◽  
Graham Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Delayed Recall ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
Immediate Recall ◽  
Unknown Words ◽  
Word Familiarity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Good Retention

These experiments examine the relationship between subjects' familiarity judgements of words of similar (low) frequency and their recall or recognition of these words. The expected relationship between familiarity and recall was well confirmed, as was the less expected relationship between familiarity and recognition. An analysis of the vocabulary acquisition process led to more specific predictions about performance on delayed, as compared with immediate, retention tests. The most crucial of these predictions was that words which are familiar, but whose meanings are not known, are remembered by tagging sets of phonological (as opposed to semantic) features, leading to good immediate recall but poor delayed recall, and a greater likelihood of acoustic confusions following a delay. Some support was obtained for these predictions. However, subjects showed unexpectedly good retention of unknown words and it was felt that tagging alone does not account for all the findings.

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