We describe the development of an abbreviated version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) to measure patients' ability to read and understand health-related materials. The TOFHLA was reduced from 17 Numeracy items and 3 prose passages to 4 Numeracy items and 2 prose passages (S-TOFHLA). The maximum time for administration was reduced from 22 minutes to 12. In a group of...

Rhythm is expressed by recurring, hence predictable beat patterns. Poetry in many languages is composed with attention to poetic meters while prose is not. Therefore, one way to investigate speech rhythm is to evaluate how prose reading differs from poetry reading via a quantitative method that measures predictability. We use linear regression to predict the acoustic properties of segments from...

Sir, Eruptive pseudoangiomatosis (EPA) is a rare, selflimiting exanthem, which is known to occur primarily in children. The first reports on this disease can be traced back to 1969 when Cherry et al. (1) described acute haemangioma-like lesions occurring in children with echovirus infection. No skin biopsies, however, were performed. In 1993, Prose et al. (2) proposed the term ‘eruptive pseudoa...

feasts and festivals are ceremonies held by various peoples and nations in order to put on display their indigenous and unique cultures. persian peoples, too, have their own unique and peculiar customs while celebrating norooz festival, just like arabs who observe their own festivities during eid al-fitr and eid al-adha or the beginning of the lunar calendar or year; and so do christians, jews,...

There exist debates about “poetry” and “prose” styles in the translations of Shakespeare’s works continuously, there are circumstances one sticking to its own style, partializing belittling other. The “verse” school Shakespeare translation maintains that original plays verse, unique 16th 17th-century English poetic dramas (blank verse), which does not rhyme but has a distinct rhythm different f...

Web-based software was used to deliver and record the effects of programmed instruction that progressively added formal prompts until attempts were successful, programmed instruction with one attempt, and prose tutorials. Error-contingent progressive prompting took significantly longer than programmed instruction and prose. Both forms of programmed instruction substantially increased the approp...

Philologist: I need to parse Old French texts of different types (verse, prose, dialects etc.). Do I have to train separate parser models? Computational Linguist: You won’t lose much if you train the parser on all the data you have. P: I can’t do the training myself. What can I expect from existing parser models? C: If the training corpus contained 12th century verse texts, you are best prepare...

‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’: T. S. Eliot’s metaphor in The Waste Land evokes the evanescent frailty of human existence and worldly endeavour with a poignancy that the Anglo-Saxons would surely have appreciated. Such a concept lies at the heart of Boethius’s De consolatione Philosophiae, and perhaps prompted King Alfred to include this work amongst those which he considered ...