This article offers a developmental theory of language and the neural systems that lead to and subserve linguistic capabilities. Early perceptual experience and discontinuities in linguistic development suggest that language develops in four phases that occur in a fixed, interdependent sequence. In each phase of language, a unique ontogenetic function is accomplished. These functions have propr...

Designing an online help facility is diierent from writing a paper manual. The design principles for online documentation diier from those for written documentation, although often the same people are responsible for both tasks. In this paper we shortly discuss general principles and guidelines for the design of online documentation and we illustrate them by evaluating the design of an online h...

PURPOSE To compare a template-driven medical documentation system to undirected handwritten documentation and determine whether the template (1) decreases physician evaluation time, (2) increases gross billing, and (3) increases physician satisfaction with the documentation process. METHODS A prospective randomized trial of documentation with a template system (T-System for Primary Care, Dall...

BACKGROUND Down syndrome, phonological awareness, writing and working memory. AIM to evaluate the phonological awareness of Brazilian children with Down syndrome; to analyze the relationship between the writing hypothesis and the phonological awareness scores of the participants; to compare the performance of children with Down syndrome to that of children with typical development according t...

In order to improve Web Information Retrieval, we have, in a previous work (Aires et al., 2004), investigated the use of stylistic features of Web texts in Portuguese to classify web pages according to users’ needs, using in most of the experiments the classification algorithm J48 (the Weka implementation of C4.5). From that study, we concluded that it was possible to identify some of the categ...