Pinch my wig or winch my pig: Spelling,spoonerisms and other language skills

Phonological processing skills have often been assumed to play a minimal role in skilled adult spelling despite evidence showing their importance in the development of spelling skills. The present study investigated the relationship between phonological awareness and spelling in adults. It was hypothesised that subjects demonstrating higher levels of spelling proficiency would also show superior phonological processing skills. This relationship was expected to be mediated by sound-spelling mapping knowledge. Given the irregularities of sound-spelling correspondences in English, it was also predicted that knowledge of orthographic conventions would be related to spelling competency. Two measures of each component skill were used on seventy three university students. As predicted, the importance of spelling-sound mapping skills in spelling were demonstrated, as was a relationship between phonological awareness and spelling-sound correspondences. In addition a moderate correlation was found between orthographic tasks and spelling performance. It was concluded that, among university students at least, phonological ability makes an important contribution to skilled adult spelling.     

Effects of nanofibers on mesenchymal stem cells: environmental factors affecting cell adhesion and osteogenic differentiation and their mechanisms

Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B - Nanofibers can mimic natural tissue structure by creating a more suitable environment for cells to grow, prompting a wide application of nanofiber...     

Roots and patterns in Hebrew language development: evidence from written morphological analogies

Morphology is one of the organizing principles of the mental lexicon. It is especially important in Hebrew, where word structure expresses a rich array of semantic notions. This study investigated the ability of Hebrew-speaking children to solve written morphological analogies by reading and completing two sets of real and invented root- and pattern-related nouns using a closed set of responses. In the first experiment, 152 gradeschoolers (2nd–6th grade) were administered an analogy task with real words, where they had to read written stimuli and elicit root and pattern components from them. In the second experiment, 148 gradeschoolers were administered a similar reading task with pseudowords. In both experiments, the results clearly indicate an early and robust ability of Hebrew-speaking children to perform morphological analogies using both roots and patterns. Most errors involved the root morpheme rather than the pattern morpheme, but pseudowords elicited more pattern errors. These results are discussed in view of models of morphological processing and morpho-lexical development in Hebrew.     

Study on Bombyx mori silk treated by oxygen plasma

INTRODUCTION B. mori silk produced by cultivated silkwormis a textile fiber highly appreciated for its out-standing properties (handle, luster, comfort). Inrecent years there has been an increasing interest inexploiting low-temperature plasma treatment (LTP)of textile fibers. Low-temperature plasma treatment is an en-vironmental friendly technique for modifying thefibers surface to improve surface wettability(Molina et al., 2003), shrink resistance (Jin and Dai,2002), interf…     

从"时代的意义"到"刚道的人格型"--"战国策派"文化反思

战国策派 ,抗战语境中的文化流派。借助“历史形态学”提供的历史观和方法论 ,该派认为 ,西方文化的根本精神是以“地缘国家”为归属 ,“个性焕发”、“国命整合”为基本内容的民族主义。改造中国文化 ,就在于吸收浮士德无限进取的精神 ,呼唤英雄主义 ,改造国民性。笔者提炼了该派学说的基本理念 ,认为其学术性格中对“时代的意义”的强烈关注 ,以及广阔视野的“理想主义”值得学界重视。     

从英汉对比的角度赏析文学作品的翻译——以王佐良《论读书》译文为例

本文分析了英国十六世纪文学家培根的<论读书>的文体特征,简要介绍了我国翻译家王佐良的译学主张,并重点从词法包括名词、介词和代词及句法包括形合与意合、省略与重复方面分析了王佐良译文的特点.     

辣椒花粉的生活力和贮藏方法研究

:本文结果表明 :辣椒不同品种间花粉生活力存在极显著差异 ,其中以 16号辣椒的花粉生活力为最高 ;在所研究的 8种花粉贮藏方法中 ,以低温干燥 ( 0～ 5 )℃法最有利于保持辣椒花粉生活力     

Emergence of morphographical markers in written French: what children following a special education programme say about plurals

Research conducted with average apprentice writers demonstrated that the main difficulty they are facing in the acquisition of written French is the acquisition of the morphology of the writing system, hence studies with slow writers show that morphological traces are late to emerge and often fail to meet the grammatical demands of French. This exploratory research conducted with slow mono- and multilingual learners attempts to identify the qualitative aspects of the emergence of morphological traces, which in the written French system are most often mute. The linguistic concept of the plural was therefore chosen not simply to observe the appearance of plural grammatical markers in productions, but also in order to stimulate apprentice writers to give so-called ‘metagraphical explanations’ in other words, they were asked to explain verbally their own written productions. We observed the written productions and the metagraphical explanations of the participants irrespective of whether these were standard or non-standard written productions. The results show that the verbal explanations, rather than being related to the grammatical case of plural, for the participants frequently refer to their concrete knowledge of number. The fact that these slow learners possess general cognitive abilities which are substantially more developed than their linguistic abilities suggests that the processes used to acquire the linguistic notion of plural in French are based on structures established by analogy, taking their roots in a cognitive notion of number which seems common to all apprentice writers.     

辽宁省与日本学龄期儿童身体形态指标的比较研究

本文探讨辽宁省与日本学龄期儿童身体形态指标的比较。随机对辽宁省3623名7～14岁学龄期儿童进行身高和体重的测量,获取各年龄段的平均值和标准差,用统计学方法与同年龄段的日本学龄期儿童进行比较。结果:获得了辽宁省学龄期儿童身体形态指标的资料,与日本学龄期儿童比较,初期差异明显,而至学龄期末差异不明显。研究结果提示,应加强辽宁省学龄期儿童的营养配比、体育锻炼等综合保健工作。     

塔克拉玛干沙漠西南部两地沙粒形貌分布特征

以巴楚县和岳普湖县两个地方的沙漠沙粒作为研究对象,研究塔克拉玛干沙漠西南的自然沙粒的形貌特征,运用生物显微镜观察测量两个地方沙漠沙粒的形貌分布特征,得到结论：巴楚和岳普湖两个地方的沙漠沙粒以次棱角状沙粒为主,次圆状所占比例少,其他形状如圆状和棱角状很少.说明此两地的沙是风成沙,但是风的作用时间短和作用强度弱.