Executive functions are the basis for goal-directed activity and include planning, monitoring, and inhibition, and language seems to play a role in the development of these functions. There is a tradition of studying executive function in both typical and atypical populations, and the present study investigates executive functions in children with severe speech and motor impairments who are com...

INTRODUCTION Although the link between social factors and health-related outcomes has long been widely acknowledged, the mechanisms characterizing this link are relatively less known and remain a subject of continued investigation across disciplines. In this study, drawing on the structural influence model of health communication, the hypothesis that differences in concern about and information...

63 The federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 prohibits discrimination based on disability in a number of settings, including private establishments that cater to the public, which includes physician offices and hospitals. As a result, physicians cannot refuse to provide treatment to a disabled person because of disability, and they must provide, free of charge, any auxiliary aid...

BACKGROUND This study compared the incidence of fatal and nonfatal AIDS and non-AIDS events in HIV-positive individuals with a CD4 cell count more than 350  cells/μl among viral load strata: low (<500  copies/ml), intermediate (500-9999.9  copies/ml) and high (≥ 10000  copies/ml). METHODS Individuals contributed person-years at risk if their most recent CD4 cell count was more than 350  cells...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the knowledge of secondary school pupils in Osun state about HIV/AIDS and the sources of their information. MATERIALS AND METHODS A multistage random sampling technique was used to select 592 secondary school pupils from 5 local government areas of Osun state, Nigeria. A self-administered questionnaire was used which composed of questions o...

This paper presents a speech synthesis method for people with articulation disorders resulting from athetoid cerebral palsy. For people with articulation disorders, there are duration, pitch and spectral problems that cause their speech to be less intelligible and make communication difficult. In order to deal with these problems, this paper describes a Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based text-to-s...

Waterborne transmission of Cryptosporidium parvum is well-established as a source in outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis; however, the role of tap water in endemic disease is unclear. The authors applied a risk assessment approach incorporating uncertainty analysis to examine the potential role of tap water in the transmission of endemic C. parvum infection. The model had two components: exposure-in...