AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To examine cognitive function and its relationships to demographic characteristics and social support among elders in central China. BACKGROUND Cognitive decline is prevalent among elders. Few studies have explored the relationship between social support and cognitive function among elders. DESIGN A cross-sectional, descriptive correlational study. METHODS A quasi-rand...

from applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in fl/sl: learning to use or using to learn? definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. that is why there was a gradu...

Objectives: The current study investigated (a) whether identifiable patterns of childcare arrangements from birth to 51 months exist and (b) whether these patterns moderate cognitive development from 18 months to 51 months in relation to maternal stimulation of language and infant difficult temperament controlling for SES and child gender. Methods: Of the 1201 who participated in the Families, ...

CoLiDeS is a model of how people navigate a complex website to find information and is the youngest member in a family of models for human-computer interaction situations where users rely primarily on skilled reading and action planning as the core cognitive processes. All models in this family are based on Kintsch’s (1998) constructionintegration (C-I) cognitive architecture. This paper descri...