General measures of reaction to noise, which assess the respondent's perceived affectedness or dissatisfaction, appear to be more valid and internally consistent than more narrow measures, such as specific assessment of noise annoyance. However, the test-retest reliability of general and specific measures has yet to be compared. As a part of the large-scale Sydney Airport Health Study, 97 respo...

The media play a key role in forming opinions by influencing people´s understanding and perception of a topic. People gather information about topics of interest from the internet and print media, which employ various news frames to attract attention. One example of a common news frame is the human-interest frame, which emotionalizes and dramatizes information and often accentuates individual a...

PURPOSE To quantify the association between siblings in age-related nuclear cataract, after adjusting for known environmental and personal risk factors. METHODS All participants (probands) in the Salisbury Eye Evaluation (SEE) project and their locally resident siblings underwent digital slit lamp photography and were administered a questionnaire to assess risk factors for cataract including:...

BACKGROUND: Dyslexia is a major educational problem, but the studies on genetics of dyslexia are very limited in India. There is a great dearth of proper statistical data to show the incidence of dyslexia in Indian population. More over inheritance pattern of dyslexia is not well established in our population. AIMS & OBJECTIVE: To establish the inheritance pattern of dyslexia in 23 selected fam...

PURPOSE To investigate the usefulness of 3 tasks known to be effective diagnostic clinical markers of specific language impairment (SLI) in children: (a) nonword repetition, (b) sentence repetition, and (c) grammaticality judgments of finiteness marking. METHOD Two groups of young adults, 13 with SLI and 18 with typical language, completed 3 experimental tasks: (a) nonword repetition, (b) sen...

Elephants and whales took center stage in the environmental movements of 1980s. As flagship species, they were poster children global initiatives: international ivory trading commercial whaling banned 1980s context Convention on International Trade Endangered Species Wild Fauna Flora (CITES) Whaling Commission (IWC), respectively. While conservation both species is contested, we observe a chang...

We provide a unified account of semantic effects observable in attested examples of the German applicative (‘be-’) construction, e.g., Rollstuhlfahrer Poul Schacksen aus Kopenhagen will den 1997 erschienenen Wegweiser Handiguide Europa fortführen und zusammen mit Movado Berlin berollen (‘Wheelchair user Poul Schacksen from Copenhagen wants to continue the guide ‘Handiguide Europe’, which came o...

Puerto Rican Spanish, a variety that prefers a final rise-fall rather than a fall-rise for yes-no questions has been claimed to have a default contour for information-seeking questions and a special configuration used only for biased negative questions. This study investigates the pragmatic division of labor for the nuclear configurations used for information-seeking questions, confirmation-see...

Genetic linkage studies of schizophrenia depend on accurate psychiatric diagnosis of relatives within multiply affected families. Each investigator makes a series of explicit or implicit decisions to define which relatives will be assumed to share a schizophrenia-related genotype, that is, who is an "affected relative." In this article we delineate issues that we believe should be considered in...

CONTEXT Genetic factors play an important role in the etiology of both autism spectrum disorders and autistic traits. However, little is known about the etiologic consistency of autistic traits across levels of severity. OBJECTIVE To compare the etiology of typical variation in autistic traits with extreme scoring groups (including top 1%) that mimicked the prevalence of diagnosed autism spec...