Reliability data point to rather high test-retest correlations (greater than or equal to 0.65) for VHF data with four- and five-letter words as stimuli, but replicate previous findings that the first test score correlates poorly with later test scores. The same results are obtained for accuracy and latency data, though small differences exist. All laterality indices lead to the same conclusions...

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The intent of a binomial effect size display (BESD) is to show "the [real-world] importance of [an] effect indexed by a correlation [r]" (R. Rosenthal, 1994, p. 242) by reexpressing this correlation as a success rate difference (SRD) (e.g., treatment group success rate-control group success rate). However, SRDs displayed in BESDs generally overestimate real-world SRDs implied by correlations of...

This study aims to analyze the item characteristics of mathematics problem-solving ability test instrument using Classical Test Theory model. The data collection was based on results documentation as many 359 students with dichotomous data. Qualitative validation analysis by experts uses panel method, and quantitative Aiken index Content Validity Ratio (CVR), while biserial point correlation. r...

African–White differences on the sub-tests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) in Zimbabwe are like the Black–White differences in the US in being positively associated with the sub-tests’ g loadings (g being the general factor of intelligence). Published means and S.D.s for 204 12to 14-year-old Zimbabweans on 10 WISC-R sub-tests were compared against those for 1868...

AIM The utility of serum alpha-fetoprotein (alpha-FP) in the detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is questionable. Very high circulating levels of nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ), a ligand for a novel opioid receptor, have recently been reported in HCC. The aim of this study was to assess the role of plasma N/OFQ in the diagnosis of HCC arising in patients with liver cirrhosis. METHODS ...

In order to study neuropsychological characteristics of subcortical-frontal brain regions function and assessment of their relation with vulnerability to schizophrenia 59 patients and 23 controls were investigated using Luria's neuropsychological methods. The analysis established bilateral abnormalities of the function of prefrontal and profound frontal lobe zones in patients as compared with c...

To accommodate growing vocabularies, young children are thought to modify their perceptual weights as they gain experience with speech and language. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the perceptual weights of children and adults with hearing loss differ from those of their normal-hearing counterparts. Adults and children with normal hearing and with hearing loss served a...