Language comprehension requires recovering meaning from linguistic form, even when the mapping between the two is indirect. A canonical example is ellipsis, the omission of information that is subsequently understood without being overtly pronounced. Comprehension of ellipsis requires retrieval of an antecedent from memory, without prior prediction, a property which enables the study of retriev...

The diagnostic catheter is an intravascular catheter, which is usually used to inject the contrast media and/or fluids to the body. The cardiovascular system contains tight angulations in the tortuous vessels which can cause device failure. In this study the flexibility of one diagnostic catheter was investigated according to the Food and Drug Administration’s recommendation. The catheter was b...

Prior studies on online sentence processing have shown that the parser can resolve non-local dependencies rapidly and accurately. This study investigates the interaction between the processing of two such non-local dependencies: wh-filler-gap dependencies (WhFGD) and reflexive-antecedent dependencies. We show that reflexive-antecedent dependency resolution is sensitive to the presence of a WhFG...

Using the eye-tracking method, the present study depicted pre- and post-head processing for simple scrambled sentences of head-final languages. Three versions of simple Japanese active sentences with ditransitive verbs were used: namely, (1) SO₁O₂V canonical, (2) SO₂O₁V single-scrambled, and (3) O₁O₂SV double-scrambled order. First pass reading times indicated that the third noun phrase just be...

BACKGROUND There is currently a profusion of near-patient testing devices that have been specifically targeted at drug dependency units and clinics. Some of these devices have been shown to produce accurate results. However, some devices suffer from inappropriate labeling, which together with the subjective interpretation of poorly defined reaction end-point markers, leads to misinterpretation ...

HYPOTHESIS Rates of relapse, monitoring contract completion, and return to medical practice may differ between surgeons and nonsurgeons being monitored for diagnosed substance use disorders. DESIGN Retrospective 5-year longitudinal cohort study. SETTING A sample of 16 state physician health programs in the United States. PARTICIPANTS Nine hundred four physicians who underwent treatment fo...

BACKGROUND This study assessed the associations of short-term employment, physical and psychological occupational demands, and job dissatisfaction with alcohol abuse (using the Audit-C test) and daily smoking among working French men and women in different age groups. METHODS The sample included 13,241 working people, 18-29, 30-39, and 40-59-years-old, randomly selected in France and intervie...

Filtration is a common method of sample preparation in dissolution testing, prior to HPLC injection. The purpose of sample filtration is to remove non-dissolved solids prior to HPLC injection. Non-dissolved solids interfere with the resulting chromatography by continuing to dissolve throughout the period of the analysis and also by plugging the HPLC column. It has already been shown that sample...

We examine developmental interactions between context, exploration, and word learning. Infants show an understanding of how nonsolid substances are categorized that does not reliably transfer to learning how these categories are named in laboratory tasks. We argue that what infants learn about naming nonsolid substances is contextually bound - most nonsolids that toddlers are familiar with are ...