The identification of an incidental (i.e. unexpected and asymptomatic) lesion can create a dilemma for the clinician and radiologist. The incidental abnormality may represent metastatic disease, a second primary malignancy or a benign lesion. The diagnosis and management of such incidental findings will depend in part on the clinical setting, the pathology and stage of underlying primary malign...

Drawing learners' attention to phonetic form during meaning-oriented activities (i.e., communicative focus on form) has been found be an optimal method of L2 speech training. In the context 55 Chinese speakers’ English [ɪ] and [i] acquisition (e.g., “sit” vs. “seat”), current study set out examine extent which outcomes such instructed learning are tied individual differences in domain-general a...

Background and objective: Thyroid cancer may be clinically evident as a tumor mass in the neck or as a histopathological incidental finding after thyroid surgery for an apparent benign condition. Our objective was to assess the differences in clinical signs, surgical management, and course between incidental and clinically diagnosed thyroid tumors. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted o...

With failed replications on various topics getting published these days, we were pleased that Landy and Goodwin's (2015, this issue) meta-analysis supported most of the findings we reported in Schnall, Haidt, Clore, and Jordan (2008). They focused on what Pizarro, Inbar and Helion (2011) had termed the amplification hypothesis of Haidt's (2001) social intuitionist model of moral judgment, namel...

This paper discusses the effectiveness of using two task-types, dictogloss and opinion-gap tasks, in focus-on-form lessons to elicit language-related episodes (LREs) and produce modified output. The participants were 40 Form 6 students in a Malaysian secondary school in two intact classes. One group was taught using opinion-gap tasks and the other using dictogloss tasks. Results show that almos...