This study investigates the predictive value of child-related and environmental characteristics for early lexical development. The German productive vocabulary of 51 2-year-olds (27 girls), assessed via parental report, was analyzed taking children's gender, the type of early care they experienced, and their mono- versus bilingual language composition into consideration. The children were from ...

The first successful kidney transplant was performed 25 years ago. Since then in many centers throughout the world, renal transplantation has become the preferred alternative for patients with end-stage renal disease. While many transplant patients (whether they received kidneys from living relatives or cadaveric donors) have enjoyed a very active and productive life, others have been less fort...

In the study influences on the productive vocabulary are examined regarding 16 month old children with, or with no siblings at home (n = 121). A parental report form, CDI, was used as instrument.Hypotheses regarding effects of different interaction environments were derived from the literature, and significant effects on the productive vocabulary were found; The first effect was that the produc...

Meara’s new volume primarily focuses on how word association data can be used in second language vocabulary acquisition research, particularly in the areas of the development of vocabulary depth, productive vocabulary skills and lexical organization in second language (L2) speakers. His book also serves as a concise summation of research to date involving word associations and second language v...

Genes involved in cell number regulation may affect plant growth and organ size and, ultimately, crop yield. The tomato (genus Solanum) fruit weight gene fw2.2, for instance, governs a quantitative trait locus that accounts for 30% of fruit size variation, with increased fruit size chiefly due to increased carpel ovary cell number. To expand investigation of how related genes may impact other c...

Introduction The Productive Diversity policy was launched by Paul Keating in 1992 with the objective of increasing Australian business access to, and success in trading with increasingly diverse domestic and export markets. The policy was argued as a ‘win-win’ strategy that could support the needs of Australian businesses in a global trading environment while at the same time, take advantage of...

Trauma is classified as bodily injury severe enough to pose a threat to life or to individual parts of the body such as a limb or an organ [3,4]. Trauma remains a national and worldwide public health problem and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, especially among previously healthy, productive young people and among males in particular [3]. The majority of trauma care is carried out...

Contrary to the fairly established notion in the learning sciences that un-scaffolded processes rarely lead to meaningful learning, this study reports a hidden efficacy of such processes and a method for extracting it. Compared to scaffolded, well-structured problem-solving groups, un-scaffolded, ill-structured problem-solving groups struggled with defining and solving the problems. Their discu...