The simple view of reading highlights the importance of two primary components which account for individual differences in reading comprehension across development: word recognition (i.e., decoding) and listening comprehension. While assessments and interventions for decoding have been the focus of pedagogy in the past several decades, the importance of listening comprehension has received less...

OBJECTIVE To collaborate with community members to develop tailored infographics that support comprehension of health information, engage the viewer, and may have the potential to motivate health-promoting behaviors. METHODS The authors conducted participatory design sessions with community members, who were purposively sampled and grouped by preferred language (English, Spanish), age group (...

abstract this study reviews the direct and indirect effects of higher energy and bread prices (due to removing their subsidies and paying their equivalent in cash instead). therefore, all consumer goods were classified into 6 groups and a linear expenditure system was estimated based on households’ budget data of 2009 and 2011 for urban and rural areas separately. the results indicate that high...

1Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital Boston, MA; 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 3Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; 4Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Children’s Hospital Boston, MA; 5Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; 6Division of Nuclear Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, MA; and 7Novartis Pharmaceut...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of training duration and case difficulty on the radiographic quality of root canal fillings performed by dental students in saudi arabia. methods and materials: a longitudinal cohort study was conducted at king saud university. root canal treatments performed by 55 dental students from 2012-2014 were included in the study. each stu...

Background and Objectives: Hemodialysis (HD) is one of the therapeutic modalities patients. Since inadequate dialysis increases mortality and morbidity of patients, therefore, assessment of dialysis adequacy is clinically important. For this reason, hemodialysis adequacy was determined in patients underg...

The success with which animals living in their natural environment nourish themselves must depend upon the exercise of choices in which instinct and appetite play a significant part. When such individuals are transferred to conditions of domestication their freedom of choice, particularly in t’he case of captive or farm animals, is restricted. Their diet now becomes a problem for the husbandman...

There is about 40.000 people with mental retardation in. A majority of them are speech and/or language disordered. A review of the research in language deficiencies in adults with mental retardation shows few studies and inadequate knowledge in the subject matter. Very little is actually known about the adults ́ comprehension and production of linguistic structures. People often say "He understa...

Health literacy is one of the major determinants of health and is one of the important factors in chronic diseases such as Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease in which the myelin sheaths of the neural cells are damaged in the brain and spinal cord. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Health Literacy Association with Health Behaviors and Health Care Utilization. This study w...