The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether there are associations between polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) blood levels, reading/writing performance and performance in neuropsychological tasks. Moderate to strong correlations were f...
This research was conducted to explore how a cognitive reappraisal intervention influences depression in college students with depressive tendencies, as well as to examine how regulatory emotional self-efficacy mediates this link. An unstructured que...
Background/Objectives: Blepharospasm (BSP) is a focal dystonia characterized by involuntary, bilateral spasms of the orbicularis oculi muscle. While botulinum toxin (BoNT) is the standard treatment, cognitive tasks such as reading and writing may exe...
Background/Objectives. This study examined whether exposure to white noise improves reading and writing performance in children with Specific Learning Disorder (SLD), with and without comorbid Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Methods....
3 December 2018
Employing dynamic office chairs might increase the physical (micro-) activity during prolonged office sitting. We investigated whether a dynamic BioSwing® chair increases chair sway and alters trunk muscle activation. Twenty-six healthy young adu...
Today, AI is primarily narrow, meaning that each model or agent can only perform one task or a narrow range of tasks. However, systems with broad capabilities can be built by connecting multiple narrow AIs. Connecting various AI agents in an open, mu...
7 March 2017
The two most well-defined writer profiles that have been found in writing research are planning and revising. In this study we analyse writing strategies and writing profiles of undergraduate students, and their influence in solving hybrid tasks; in...
Background: Previous studies demonstrated the influential role of sustained attention in the reading comprehension of alphabetic writing systems. However, there is limited understanding of how these cognitive functions contribute to reading comprehen...
Background/Objectives: Different strategies were proposed to enhance dyslexic children’s performance. This study aimed to investigate the effect of combined cognitive and motor training on reading, writing, and motor coordination in dyslexic ch...
Telerehabilitation has proved to be a useful tool for neurodevelopmental disorders in allowing timely and intensive intervention and preventing relapses; it is also widely used for specific learning disabilities (SLD), showing significant effects on...
Writing is a necessary skill in our technological world. Many people have a mobile device that they use for e-mailing, social media, as an alarm clock to start the day, reading the news, searching for information, ordering food, managing transportati...
Executive functions may contribute differently to early literacy, but it remains unclear whether their component-specific associations differ with respect to children’s existing reading knowledge and subsequent growth. This question is particul...
Attention Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a psychiatric condition that shows developmentally inappropriate levels of inattention, hyperactivity, or impulsivity. Symptoms begin at a young age and usually include a lack of attention, poor conc...
This study examines how higher education students use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for academic tasks and identifies the types of tasks in which these tools are employed. Our research was conducted in a large multidisciplinary universit...
The paper depicts and describes the observation of a remarkable post-stroke production of paintings made by a 54-year-old, right-handed man who suffered an acute right hemispheric stroke. The patient’s post-stroke productivity and the spatial d...
A recent concern in the field of dyslexia studies is the lack of awareness and attention to university students suffering from this condition. If this problem is serious in countries where the relative opacity of the writing system allows for an earl...
Procedural learning has been mainly tested through motor sequence learning tasks in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, especially with isolated Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and Reading Disorder (RD). Studies on motor adaptation...
This exploratory study focuses on sequential bi-/multilinguals (specifically, nonimmigrant young Dutch native speakers who learned at least one foreign language (FL) at or after the age of 5) and investigates the impact of proficiency-based and amoun...
Recent research into character reversals in writings produced by occidental children has shown that they mainly reverse the left-oriented digits (1, 2, 3, 7, and 9) and therefore appear to apply a right-orienting rule. But do they produce similar rev...
Reading comprehension in Chinese as a second language (L2 Chinese) presents unique challenges due to the language’s logographic writing system. Analysis of oral reading miscues reveals specific patterns in L2 learners’ reading processes a...
University students are expected to develop the skills required for their disciplines, especially those who have learnt English as a foreign language and study at English-medium instruction (EMI) universities. This study investigates the disciplinary...
Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) models excel in text generation, text compilation, and language-related tasks. ChatGPT is based on the GPT model that responds to queries and has human-like conversational capabilities. This includes writing p...
The occupational risk of operators using display screen equipment (DSE) is usually evaluated according to the extent of time spent in active operator–DSE interactions. Risk assessment is based on activity data collected through questionnaires....
Cloud computing plays a major role in sharing data and resources to other devices through data outsourcing. During sharing resources, it is a challenging task to provide access control and secure write operations. The main issue is to provide secure...
This study provides empirical evidence on the reading and writing profile of adolescents with twice-exceptionality (2e), specifically those presenting both intellectual giftedness and dyslexia (G-D). Using a quantitative approach, the performance of...
Open-plan offices are a common format in contemporary work environments, but their exposed nature may increase cognitive demands. Work pods and other enclosed microspaces have been proposed as an alternative. However, scientific evidence demonstratin...
It is important to identify children who are struggling with emergent literacy skills as early as possible to provide them with the support they need to prevent future academic failure. Screening tools administered in groups are more cost-effective t...
Development of a general-purpose PLC based on a typical dual-core processor as a hardware platform is presented. The cores run two cooperating projects involving data exchange through shared memory. Such a solution is equivalent to a single-core PLC...
The capability to present electronic media that can preserve information is highly restricted to few decades (e.g., a lifetime of DVD media does not exceed 100 years), and therefore the question of how to preserve documents for more than thousands or...
(1) Background: The literature on the effects of high-grade glioma (HGG) growth on cognition is still scarce. (2) Method: A consecutive series of 85 patients with HGG involving the left hemisphere underwent an extended neuropsychological evaluation p...
Research on twice-exceptional students, those who simultaneously present intellectual giftedness and dyslexia (G-D), remains limited, particularly with regard to gender differences in reading and writing processes. The present study examines these di...
The Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) has become a widely used framework for predicting second language (L2) vocabulary learning from task completion. The purpose of this systematic review was to analyze the predictive ability of the ILH in the acqui...
English is used in all parts of aviation, especially in aircraft maintenance, where all documentation and various manuals are written in this language. However, there are no formal requirements for aircraft mechanics to have a certain level of Englis...
Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of ADHD on the neuropsychological and academic performance of a sample of Colombian children in primary and secondary education compared to a control group. Method: Quasi-experimental research desig...
Background: Educational neuroscience has made important contributions to show how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted schooling. In countries like Brazil, with significant educational inequality, the suspension of in-person classes worsened these disparit...
Learning disorders (LDs) are diagnosed in children whose academic skills of reading, writing or mathematics are impaired and lagging according to their age, schooling and intelligence. Children with LDs experience substantial working memory (WM) defi...
Detectors built on transformer language models report near-perfect accuracy on standard fake news benchmarks, which suggests the task is almost solved. We argue that much of this accuracy reflects a confound between writing register and veracity: in...
Dyslexia, often referred to as a specific reading disability, affects many students around the world. It is a neurological disorder that affects the ability to recognise words, and it causes difficulties in writing and reading comprehension. Previous...
Formative assessment (FA) provides lecturers and learners with information about the quality and development of different tasks. Formative feedback becomes an essential element that increases the quality of these tasks, guides learners in the process...
Humans are spending more time indoors than ever due to urbanisation and industrialisation, leading to higher electricity consumption in lighting systems. Recent research has demonstrated the significance of maintaining a balance between daylight and...
Conduction aphasia is a language disorder occurred after a left-brain injury. It is characterized by fluent speech production, reading, writing and normal comprehension, while speech repetition is impaired. The aim of this study is to investigate the...
This study investigates how Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners, and second language (L2) learners cognitively and socially engage with texts through collaborative digital annotations. Conducted in two advanced online writing courses with forty...
Large Language Model (LLM) agents depend heavily on multiple external tools such as APIs, databases and computational services to perform complex tasks. However, these tool executions create latency and introduce costs, particularly when agents handl...
The Join task between Spark large tables takes a long time to run and produces a lot of disk I/O, network I/O and disk occupation in the Shuffle process. This paper proposes a lightweight distributed data filtering model that combines broadcast varia...
This research study explores teacher and student perceptions to verify consequential validity and the potential washback effect of a locally developed university-level English language proficiency test which consists of reading and listening-to-writi...
The currently used educational technology with artificial-intelligence-powered solutions, although rather instrumental, may lead to discontinuity in learning, as it lacks social and emotional value, which is an essential part of education for sustain...
This convergent mixed-methods study investigates international learners’ perceptions and academic outcomes associated with the strategic use of English as an instrumental language in Turkish as a foreign/second language (TFL) instruction. Combi...
This research involved the design of a task-based dialogue system and evaluation of its learning effectiveness. Dialogue training still heavily depends on human communication with instant feedback or correction. However, it is not possible to provide...
Assistive braille technology has existed for many years with the purpose of aiding the blind in performing common tasks such as reading, writing, and communicating with others. Such technologies are aimed towards helping those who are visually impair...
In this article, the development of the software system—a virtual simulator for FATEK programmable controllers for industrial processes—is proposed. The main purpose of the development is to create a virtual tool that emulates the operati...
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