There is much controversy about the extent to which auditory processing deficits are important in the genesis of language disorders, particularly specific language impairment (SLI) and dyslexia (or specific reading disability—SRD). A review of the available literature reveals that some but not all auditory skills are impaired, on average, in groups of SLI/SRD listeners. Typically only a minorit...

We conducted a study of the effect of intravitreal plasmin on retinal thickness in rabbits. Forty rabbit eyes were injected with 0.4, 1, 2, and 5 IU of plasmin (8 eyes/group). The same volume of BSS-plus(®) was injected in control eyes. Four eyes in each group underwent vitrectomy 60 minutes after the injections. The retinal thickness was measured in optical coherence tomographic (OCT) images b...

The neural basis of specific reading disability (SRD) remains only partly understood. A dozen studies have used voxel-based morphometry (VBM) to investigate gray matter volume (GMV) differences between SRD and control children, however, recent meta-analyses suggest that few regions are consistent across studies. We used data collected across three countries (France, Poland, and Germany) with th...

In this paper, the first and second order approximations of Taylor expansion are used for calculating the change of each natural frequency by modifying an arbitrary parameter of a system with a known amount and based on this approximation, the inverse eigenvalue problem is transformed to a solvable algebraic equation. The finite element formulation, based on the classical laminated plate theory...

The study investigated different types of awareness of memory dysfunction in dementia, specifically judgements concerning memory task performance or appraisal of everyday memory functioning and also exploring the neuropsychological correlates of such awareness. This was investigated in 76 people with dementia, comprising 46 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 30 patients with vascular de...

National standards for natural resources (NSNR) plays an important role in promoting efficient use of China's resources, which sets many domains such as marine and land resources. Its revision is difficult since different may overlap or conflict. To facilitate the NSNR, this paper extracts structural knowledge from NSNR files to assist its revision. are multi-domain texts, where traditional ext...

We investigate the properties of dense suspensions and sediments of small spherical silt particles by means of a combined molecular dynamics and stochastic rotation dynamics (SRD) simulation. We include van der Waals and effective electrostatic interactions between the colloidal particles, as well as Brownian motion and hydrodynamic interactions which are calculated in the SRD part. We present ...

In this paper, we present a novel Integer Linear Programming formulation (termed ILP4ID) for implicit search result diversification (SRD). The advantage is that the exact solution can be achieved, which enables us to investigate to what extent using the greedy strategy affects the performance of implicit SRD. Specifically, a series of experiments are conducted to empirically compare the state-o...

this paper presents an optimal integrated instrumentation sensor network design methodology for complex nonlinear chemical process plants using a combinatorial particle swarm optimiazation (cpso) engine. no comprehensive sensor network design approach has been addressed yet in the literature to simultaneously incorporate cost, precision and reliability requirements for nonlinear plants. the pre...