Objectives. To assess interreader agreements and a learning curve between three (senior, junior, and beginner) different experienced musculoskeletal ultrasonographers. Senior served as the imaging "gold standard". Methods. Clinically dominant joints (finger, shoulder, knee, tibiotalar, and talonavicular) of 15 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients were examined by three different experienced ultra...

Following the current research in conversation analysis field of second language (L2) learning, present study demonstrates that beginner-level adult learners actively contribute to vocabulary explanation sequences by mobilising multimodal resources including depictive gestures, gaze, and short verbal turns. The data consist video-recordings whole-class interactions a L2 French classroom for adu...

The current project aimed to investigate the potentially different linguistic correlates of comprehensibility (i.e., ease of understanding) and accentedness (i.e., linguistic nativelikeness) in adult second language (L2) learners’ extemporaneous speech production. Timed picture descriptions from 120 beginner, intermediate, and advanced Japanese learners of English were analyzed using native spe...

BACKGROUND There is a general expectation within healthcare that organizations should use evidence-based practice (EBP) as an approach to improving the quality of care. However, challenges exist regarding how to make EBP a reality, particularly at an organizational level and as a routine, sustained aspect of professional practice. METHODS A mixed method explanatory case study was conducted to...

PURPOSE Minimally invasive gastrectomy (MIG), including laparoscopic distal subtotal gastrectomy (LDG) and robotic distal subtotal gastrectomy (RDG), is performed for gastric cancer, and requires a learning period. However, there are few reports regarding MIG by a beginner surgeon trained in MIG for gastric cancer during surgical residency and fellowship. The aim of this study was to report our...

The spectrum of books about TEX has been broadened by another beginner's book about plain l&X: with Introduction to (Norbert Schwarz; Addison-Wesley, 1990), A Beginner's Book of TJ$ (Etaymond Seroul and Silvio Levy; Addison-Wesley, 1991) and by Example (Arvind Borde; Academic Press, 1992) there is now for the Beginner by Wynter Snow. In contrast to the Seroul and Levy book, which is somewhat ac...