Climate change is expected to influence spatial and temporal distributions of fish stocks. The aim of this paper is to compare climate change impact on a fishery with other factors impacting the performance of fishing fleets. The fishery in question is the Northeast Arctic cod fishery, a well-documented fishery where data on spatial and temporal distributions are available. A cellular automata ...

INTRODUCTION Selection of medical students varies between German- and French-speaking Swiss faculties. Geneva introduced an aptitude test in 2010, aimed at helping decision making among students. The test was compulsory: it had to be taken by those who intended to register for medical studies. But it was not selective: there was no performance threshold under which registration would have been ...

Speech imitation is crucial for language acquisition and second-language learning. Interestingly, large individual differences regarding the ability in imitating foreign-language sounds have been observed. The origin of this interindividual diversity remains unknown, although it might be partially explained by structural predispositions. Here we correlated white-matter structural properties of ...

Abstract Precise auditory perception at a subcortical level (neural representation and encoding of sound) has been suggested as form implicit L2 aptitude in naturalistic settings. Emerging evidence suggests that such explains some variance speech production among adult learners with different first language backgrounds immersion experience. By examining 46 Chinese English, the current study lon...

Willson and Reynolds (in this issue) challenged my thesis that the regression-based discrepancy method (RDM) is not a valid tool to detect aptitude-achievement discrepancies. In this response, I show that the statistical and theoretical counterarguments of Willson and Reynolds are based on a misreading of the statistical models presented. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the regression adjustmen...

Purpose This study examines the test's predictive validity of English language performance and compares test constructs to identify most effective predictors performance. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected analysed from scores students enrolled in foundation year ( N = 84) level 2 127) faculty at a Saudi university using correlation regression tests. Findings The findings revealed ...

ABSTRACT This article presents an investigation carried out to study the linguistic development of students from a Spanish Language class. The community service learning (from now on, due its initials in English, SL) methodology is used. as heritage language learners HLLs) and foreign FLLs) participated SL which they translated educational medical materials English into Spanish. first objective...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this work was to measure family physicians' clinical aptitude for the diagnosis and treatment of metabolic syndrome in a representative sample from six Family Medicine Units (UMF) at the Mexican Institute for Social Security (IMSS), in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional study. A validated and structured instrument was used, wi...