Numerous experiments in the past decades recurrently showed that a transposed-letter pseudoword (e.g., JUGDE) is much more wordlike than a replacement-letter control (e.g., JUPTE). Critically, there is an ongoing debate as to whether this effect aris...
Background/Objectives: Previous research has demonstrated that the initial letters of a word likely play a privileged role in visual word recognition, such that reading and visual recognition errors reflecting changes in this position are much less l...
Composite deoxyribonucleic acid storage represents information by nucleotide mixture ratios and can exceed 2 bits per synthesis cycle. Readout requires inferring the transmitted composite letter from finite sequencing counts subject to sampling rando...
A new dyslexia screening test for Italian, Tiltan-IT, is presented. The test was developed based on an integrated dual-route model of reading, which describes in detail specific mechanisms underpinning early visual processes as well as the lexical an...
With the development of information technology, it has become a popular topic to share data from multiple sources without privacy disclosure problems. Privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) can link the data that truly matches and does not disclose...
This letter presents the capabilities of a command line tool created to assess the quality of segmented digital images. The executable source code, called AssesSeg, was written in Python 2.7 using open source libraries. AssesSeg (University of Almeri...
17 August 2022
In Middle Ages, in Moldavia and Wallachia, the healthcare system was almost non-existent, medical practice being the attribute of old women, midwives, charmers, and later monastic personnel. The first elements of medical ethics are identifiable in wr...
Bats are natural hosts of a wide variety of viruses, including adenoviruses. European bats are known to carry mastadenoviruses categorized as species B (widespread in European Vespertilionidae bats) and whose taxonomy has not been clarified. We exami...
Against the backdrop of global warming and China’s Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Goals, this study focuses on carbon footprint rating information on packaging, addressing the gap between consumer cognition and behavior in food consumptio...
Background: The risk of falls is higher in patients with Parkinsonism (PwP) as compared to other older adults, leading to adverse outcomes including fragility fractures. Osteoporosis is under-recognised and the current prevalence of fragility fractur...