• Dyslexia and stuttering co-occur far more often than expected. Both populations show a similar degree of phonological difficulty. There might be common underlying deficit between both conditions. This study assessed the prevalence childhood in adults with dyslexia (AWD) who stutter (AWS). In addition, linguistic profiles 50 AWD, 30 AWS 84 neurotypical were measured. We found that 17 out AWD (...

Özet: 1960'lı yılların sonundan bu yana yazılım projeleri yürütülmektedir. Yazılım mühendisliği alanında yapılan araştırmalar bu projelerin başarı ile tamamlanması için alınması gereken önlemleri anlatsa da günümüzde hala pek çok yazılım projesi başarısızlıkla sonuçlanmaktadır. Ayrıca, bu alanda yapılan araştırma sonuçları daha çok proje süreci başlamadan alınması gereken önlemleri belirtir. Bi...

RB, a patient with probable Alzheimer's disease, makes continuous perseverations of single letters when writing (e.g. fruit-->fruuit), particularly on high frequency letters. An analysis of her errors reveals that her perseverations do not reflect letter substitutions or transpositions, nor do they suggest difficulty with geminates. No continuous perseverations were found in oral production, in...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of specific types of tasks on the efficiency of implicit procedural learning in the presence of developmental dyslexia (DD). METHODS Sixteen children with DD (mean (SD) age 11.6 (1.4) years) and 16 matched normal reader controls (mean age 11.4 (1.9) years) were administered two tests (the Serial Reaction Time test and the Mirr...

We estimate the political economy determinants of budget deficit forecast errors. Since the adoption of the Stability Pact, Eurozone governments have manipulated forecasts before elections. The political orientation and the institutional design of governments also affects the quality of forecasts. JEL classifications: H62, H87, C23, C53, E62

Objective: According to studies of prevalence, up to 70% of adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have at least one psychiatric comorbidity, which leads to diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties as well as more severe functional impairment. There is a paucity of data on the comorbidity of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and eating disorders. The objective of this study ...

Findings on neuropsychological associates of the negative syndrome of schizophrenia have been inconsistent. The "deficit syndrome," a reconceptualization of the negative syndrome, was developed in part to address this inconsistency. The purpose of this study was (1) to replicate previous findings relating the deficit syndrome to impairment of certain kinds of attentional abilities, and (2) to c...