We carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment to study whether visual letter similarity plays a role during the initial phases of word processing in young readers of Arabic (fifth graders). Arabic is ideally suited to test these effects because most Arabic letters share their basic shape with at least one other letter and differ only in the number/position of diacritical points (e...

ةـصلاخلا : جا تحت زجت ة قيرط س كعلا ىفص نلا نو لل ثحبلا لود ج ة ئ ي طعتو ل قأ باسح تاوطخ ى لإ ي ةد يج جئا تن . دحاو ثحب لودج ة قيرطلا مدختستو اً يُ َّ زخ نُ ، طقف ةءار قلل ةر آاذ ىف و نو للا فيفختل مي ق ى لع لودجلا ىو تحي باسحلا ةقباس ) ىدامرلا ىوتسملا ( ىسكعلا ىفصنلا نوللا تايلمعل . ة يزاوتم باسح ة قيرط حر تقي ثحبلا اذ هو لإ زاجن ىفصنلا نوللا سكعلا ي ، جتب كلذو ىلإ درفنملا ثحبلا لودج ةئز نم ددع...

Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Research, Crown Bioscience Inc, Taicang, Jiangsu Province, China and New Iberia, LA, USA *Address for Correspondence: Gao Sun, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Division, Crown Bioscience Inc., 6 Beijing West Road, Science & Technology Park, Taicang Economic Development Area, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China 215400, Tel: +86-138-622-78837/ +86-512-538-79828...

Statement of problem and methods employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538 Pollen-tube growth in diploid plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pollen-tube growth in tetraploid plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tetraploid...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and outcome of invasive fungal infections (IFI) in patients with hematologic malignancies. DESIGN AND METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of patients admitted between 1999 and 2003 to 18 hematology wards in Italy. Each participating center provided information on all patients with newly diagnosed hematolog...