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Parental phone use during mealtime with toddlers and the associations with feeding practices and shared family meals: a cross-sectional study
2021
Abstract Background Positive parental feeding practices and a higher frequency of family meals are related to healthier child dietary habits. Parents play an essential role when it comes to the development of their child’s eating habits. However, parents are increasingly distracted by their mobile phone during mealtimes. The aim of this study was to describe the feeding practices and daily shared family meals among parents who use and do not use a mobile phone during mealtimes, and further to explore the associations between the use of a mobile phone during mealtimes and feeding practices and daily shared family meals, respectively. Methods Cross-sectional data from the Food4toddler study w…
Mobile phone use and exposures in children.
2005
The main difference concerning the use of mobile phones (MPs) between today's children and adults is the longer lifetime exposure of children when they grow older, due to starting to use MPs at an early age. Additionally, recent trends lead to a higher frequency of use among children, including higher popularity of MPs and features specifically designed to attract children. The prevalence of MP users is already very high and reaches >90% among adolescents in some countries. In a German study, 6% of 9-10 years old children used a MP for making calls daily; 35% owned their own MP. For children, MPs are dominant sources of radio wave exposures and relevant sources of extremely low frequency ma…
Predictors of developmental dyslexia in European orthographies with varying complexity
2012
Background: The relationship between phoneme awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), verbal short-term/working memory (ST/WM) and diagnostic category is investigated in control and dyslexic children, and the extent to which this depends on orthographic complexity. Methods: General cognitive, phonological and literacy skills were tested in 1,138 control and 1,114 dyslexic children speaking six different languages spanning a large range of orthographic complexity (Finnish, Hungarian, German, Dutch, French, English). Results: Phoneme deletion and RAN were strong concurrent predictors of developmental dyslexia, while verbal ST/WM and general verbal abilities played a comparatively minor role…
Reading-related Cognitive Deficits in Spanish Developmental Dyslexia
2014
Abstract Spanish-speaking children learn to read words written in a relatively transparent orthography. Variations in orthographic transparency may shape the manifestation of reading difficulties. This study was intended to help clarify the nature of developmental dyslexia in Spanish. Developmentally Dyslexic children (DD) were compared to a chronological age-matched control group (CA). Measures included rapid automated naming, verbal working memory, phonological short-term memory, and phonemic awareness. Results demonstrated that developmental dyslexics show reading-related cognitive deficits in areas such as naming speed, verbal working memory, phonological short-term memory, and phonemic…
In Search of the Core Features of Dyslexia: Observations Concerning Dyslexia in the Highly Orthographically Regular Finnish Language
1995
A goal of many researchers in recent years has been to explore the core feature(s) of dyslexia. Three methods that could be used for this purpose are as follows. One method is to examine and specify in detail the cognitive/reading deficits still present in adulthood and thus to identify deficit(s) instead of a delay. The second method is to use crosslinguistic comparisons (see Jackson, Hu, & Ju, Vol. I, 1994; Assink & Kattenberg, Vol. I, 1994; Wolf, Pfeil, Lotz, & Biddle, Vol. I, 1994). Any real core feature of dyslexia should be present universally independent of the language and language-specific experience among those who have received adequate training in reading. The third method is to…
Fonetyčna transkrypcija u posibnykach z ukrajins'koji movy jak inozemnoji
2018
L'articolo ha come obiettivo l'elaborazione di una proposta di trascrizione fonetica delle consonanti semipalatalizzate in ucraino per mezzo dei simboli dell'Alfabeto fonetico internazionale, da usare nei manuali destinati agli studenti stranieri. Vengono prese in considerazione diverse problematiche, tra cui: la limitatezza dei mezzi grafici dell'alfabeto fonetico per esprimere alcune particolarità della correlazione palatale; la resa ortografica delle semi-palatalizzate in ucraino e la sua corrispondenza alla loro pronuncia comune; la tendenza di alcune consonanti palatalizzate all'indurimento e i diversi modi di pronunciare le semi-palatalizzate. Nel lavoro vengono analizzati i contribut…
Deutsch besser aussprechen - Phonothek Interaktiv von Langenscheidt aus der Perspektive finnischer DAF-Lerner : Anwendbarkeit im Ausspracheunterricht…
2010
Nykymaailmassa vieraan kielen hyvää ääntämistä pidetään olennaisena osana kielitaitoa ja kommunikatiivista kompetenssia. Näin myös ääntämisen opettamisesta on tullut yhä merkittävämpi osa vieraan kielen opetusta. Tietotekniikka sovelluksineen on vallannut alaa yhteiskuntamme eri osa-alueilla ja myös kouluissa ollaan vähitellen alettu käyttää tietokoneita apuna ja työvälineinä opetuksessa. Kieltenopetuksessa tietokoneet ja erityisesti internet tuovat vieraat kielet kulttuuripiireineen luokkahuoneeseen tarjoten rajattomasti mahdollisuuksia oppia kielistä ja kulttuureista, käyttää autenttisia materiaaleja ja kommunikoida reaaliajassa sekä muiden kieltenopiskelijoiden että natiivien kanssa. Eri…
THEORETISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG UBER DIE MEHRFACHAUFSTELLUNG VON GEOPHONEN*
1958
The receiving of seismic waves by multiple geophones (geophone-group) is described by a system of coupled differential equations considering only effective resistances. For so-called symmetrical connections of the geophone-group which are used in practice nearly in all cases, a method can be given for solving this system of differential equations. The solutions so derived are valid for seismic waves of any shape. The calculation takes into account the coupling of the geophones as well as the building-up transient oscillations. A suitable measure of superposition is defined, based on the energy transferred during the receiving of the seismic waves. By this means effects similar to interferen…
Dynamic measurement of the elastic constant of an helicoidal spring by a smartphone
2021
Abstract We describe an educational activity that can be done by using smartphones to collect data in physics experiments aimed to measure the oscillating period of a spring-mass system and the elastic constant of the helicoidal spring by the dynamic method. Results for the oscillating period and for the elastic constant of the spring agree very well with measurements obtained by different methods. We also discuss the error analysis that can be done in an introductory physics laboratory at undergraduate level.
There is no clam with coats in the calm coast: delimiting the transposed-letter priming effect.
2009
In this article, we explore the transposed-letter priming effect (e.g., jugde–JUDGE vs. jupte–JUDGE), a phenomenon that taps into some key issues on how the brain encodes letter positions and has favoured the creation of new input coding schemes. However, almost all the empirical evidence from transposed-letter priming experiments comes from nonword primes (e.g., jugde–JUDGE). Indeed, previous evidence when using word–word pairs (e.g., causal–CASUAL) is not conclusive. Here, we conducted five masked priming lexical decision experiments that examined the relationship between pairs of real words that differed only in the transposition of two of their letters (e.g., CASUAL vs. CAUSAL). Result…