Background Earlier it was believed that uterine fluid (uf) or secretions are not relevant after the embryo implantation in humans. However, recent reports suggest that uterine secretions continue to play important role till the first trimester of human pregnancy. Evidences also suggest that uf mirrors endometrial functions or dysfunctions. Considering the relevance of uf in endometrial function...

abstract   introduction: one of the most common behavioral problems in children with intellectual disability is physical aggression. physical aggression is described as behaviors such as hitting, kicking, throwing object and threatening with the intent to harm others. physical aggression is related to the different factors such as language skills, which has been examined among intellectually di...

  Background :Although knowledge translation is one of the most widely used concepts in health and medical literature, there is a sense of ambiguity and confusion over its definition. The aim of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of KT. This will assist the theoretical development of it and shape its implementation into the health care system   Methods : Walker and Avant’s framework w...

This research investigated the concurrent association between early reading skills and phonological awareness (PA), print knowledge, language, cognitive, and demographic variables in 101 5-year-old children with prelingual hearing losses ranging from mild to profound who communicated primarily using spoken language. All participants were fitted with hearing aids (n = 71) or cochlear implants (n...

The  present  study  investigated  the  effects  of  three  methods  of  vocabulary  presentation,  i.e., picture,  song,  and  the  keyword  method  on  Iranian  EFL  learners'  vocabulary  recognition  and production.  The  participants  were  102  Iranian  lower-intermediate  EFL  learners  in  Zaban  Sara English language institute in Kermanshah. To make sure that they had no previous knowl...

Neurophysiological mapping was used to study the effects of early postnatal removal of mystacial whiskers on the organization of cutaneous receptive fields (RFs) within the ventral posterior thalamus (VP) of rats. This sensory deprivation induced an extensive reorganization of the thalamus, as reflected in larger facial or continuous overlapping face-body RFs and a higher proportion of slowly-a...

The purpose of this study was to compare the phonological awareness abilities of 2 groups of 4-year-old children: one with normally developing speech and language skills and the other with moderately or severely delayed expressive phonological skills but age-appropriate receptive vocabulary skills. Each group received tests of articulation, receptive vocabulary, phonemic perception, early liter...

This paper reviews the various multiple-choice formats used in testing foreign language vocabulary with special reference to the underlying constructs of vocabulary competence. While all formats are argued to categorically measure recognition of second language word meaning, they are claimed to differ with respect to whether they measure receptive recognition or productive recognition, followin...

Little is known about the mechanisms that allow the cortex to selectively improve the neural representations of behaviorally important stimuli while ignoring irrelevant stimuli. Diffuse neuromodulatory systems may facilitate cortical plasticity by acting as teachers to mark important stimuli. This study demonstrates that episodic electrical stimulation of the nucleus basalis, paired with an aud...