The study reported here examines the English language knowledge and performance of bilingual school children of Middle School age in Britain, in particular their acquisition and use of vocabulary. One of the chief premises of the research is that pupils from bilingual minority ethnic backgrounds suffer a major disadvantage while learning from the National Curriculum because they lack the necess...

The study reported here examines the English language knowledge and performance of bilingual school children of Middle School age in Britain, in particular their acquisition and use of vocabulary. One of the chief premises of the research is that pupils from bilingual minority ethnic backgrounds suffer a major disadvantage while learning from the National Curriculum because they lack the necess...

This commentary demonstrates that ‘Geography and chronic disease’ can be associated in unique ways and may point to links in the chain of disease causation in epidemiological studies. Examples from the 1900s and 2000s evince that critical causal insights into disease were gained by utilizing opportunities provided by geography. In the 1940s, studies that investigated why some cancers were more ...

In his article "Computer Mapping of Geography and Border Crossing in Scandinavia" Øyvind Eide discusses computer based methods for enquiry into a set of border protocols created in the mideighteenth century based on interviews with inhabitants of northern Scandinavia. Most of the interviews are with common people: semi-nomadic reindeer herders, fishers, and farmers of Sámi, Norwegian, Swedish, ...

The study reported here examines the English language knowledge and performance of bilingual school children of Middle School age in Britain, in particular their acquisition and use of vocabulary. One of the chief premises of the research is that pupils from bilingual minority ethnic backgrounds suffer a major disadvantage while learning from the National Curriculum because they lack the necess...

Despite declines in mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and many CVD risk factors, CVD remains the leading cause of death in the United States, and racial and ethnic disparities persist. In 2010, rates of CVD mortality per 100 000 were: 192.2 for white women; 260.5 for black women; 278.4 for white men; and 369.2 for black men. 1 In 2009 and 2010, metrics of ideal cardiovascular health...

of 269,000 people nestled in California's largest agricultural valley, residents are reported to speak 100 different languages. Acculturation is diffi cult in the best of circumstances, but what happens when those people with limited or no profi ciency in English have a medical problem? Many United States hospitals are required to provide some manner of interpreter services for people with limi...

The study reported here examines the English language knowledge and performance of bilingual school children of Middle School age in Britain, in particular their acquisition and use of vocabulary. One of the chief premises of the research is that pupils from bilingual minority ethnic backgrounds suffer a major disadvantage while learning from the National Curriculum because they lack the necess...

UNLABELLED Breast cancer (BC) is the most common newly diagnosed cancer among women in Trinidad and Tobago (TT) and BC mortality rates are among the highest in the world. Globally, racial/ethnic trends in BC incidence, mortality and survival have been reported. However, such investigations have not been conducted in TT, which has been noted for its rich diversity. In this study, we investigated...