1 Biomedical Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon 2 Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 3Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technolo...

(1986). The use of the definite and indefinite articles by Italian preschool children. ABSTRACT In deciding whether to use a definite or indefinite referring expression a speaker must apply a pragmatic rule: the definite article is usually appropriate if the listener is already familiar with the referent, and the indefinite article if not. Several studies have investigated at what age this rule...

not obtain the legal support they wanted. Publicly systematic research in eugenics was advocated by only a small group of people; names like those of the physicians Frets and Van Herwerden often recur. Only after the First World War did a few organizations for anthropogenetics, anthropology, and population studies amalgamate to be come the Dutch Eugenics Federation in 1930. The final 100 pages ...

s monograph does not completely fill this gap; but in its modest and carefully researched way it presents us with the best account yet-albeit one essentially geographically circumscribed to the Eastern Counties-of the social response to surely the most serious and feared epidemic disease from Stuart to Edwardian times. Smith's local researches in Essex confirm that smallpox mortality was often ...

Purpose To accomplish the translation and cultural adaptation of the Test of Narrative Language (TNL) into Brazilian Portuguese. Methods The TNL is a formal instrument which assesses narrative comprehension and oral narration of children between the ages of 5-0 and 11-11 (years-months). The TNL translation and adaptation process had the following steps: (1) translation into the target languag...