FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY VARIATION OF NEONATAL SPONTANEOUS CRYING PREDICTS LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN PRETERM AND TERM INFANTS

Fundamental Frequency Variation of Neonatal Spontaneous Crying Predicts Language Acquisition in Preterm and Term Infants

Spontaneous cries of infants exhibit rich melodic features (i.e., time Integrated washing Machine variation of fundamental frequency [F0]) even during the neonatal period, and the development of these characteristics might provide an essential base for later expressive prosody in language.However, little is known about the melodic features of spont

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Elevated CO2 Modulates Plant Hydraulic Conductance Through Regulation of PIPs Under Progressive Soil Drying in Tomato Plants

Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations accompanied by abiotic stresses challenge food production worldwide.Elevated CO2 (e[CO2]) affects plant water relations via multiple mechanisms involving abscisic acid (ABA).Here, two tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) genotypes, Ailsa Craig (AC) and its ABA-deficient mutant (flacca), were used to investigate th

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Grant Writing: Tips and Advice for New Writers

While grant writing is a highly useful and potentially lucrative skill, it can also be a challenge to learn how to successfully write grants.Moving through the Sharps Collectors - Brackets and Cabinets entire process of creating and harnessing a new idea to building a collaborative team, and making sure the proposal itself is high quality and inclu

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Clinical use of aclidinium in patients with COPD

Debra J Reid, Alexa A CarlsonDepartment of Pharmacy Practice, Northeastern University, School of Pharmacy, Boston, MA, USAAbstract: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the sixth-leading cause of death in the US.The Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for the cli

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First Tarsometatarsal Instability Corrects Itself After Triple Arthrodesis in Progressive Collapsing Foot Deformity

Introduction/Purpose: Triple arthrodesis is commonly used to correct severe or rigid progressive collapsing foot deformity (PCFD).In many cases of PCFD, patients have associated first tarsometatarsal instability demonstrated by plantar gapping or dorsal subluxation on the lateral weight-bearing radiographs.During flatfoot reconstruction this is usu

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