This is an important contribution that largely confirms prior evidence that word recognition - a cornerstone of development - improves across early childhood and is related to vocabulary growth. This ...

After the shock and confusion surrounding the leak of a 28-point peace plan containing some of Russia’s most maximalist demands, and the marathon weekend talks to revise them, the US and Ukraine ...

The Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Hubbard approaches the dock in Skagway on July 28, 2024. A state plan to build a new ferry terminal north of Juneau is hard to justify on its financial merits ...

ABSTRACT: Most studies on the relationship between lexical sophistication and writing quality operationalize lexical sophistication as distributional property of words and focus on argumentative ...

President Donald Trump’s 2024 victory rested on support from voters who are less engaged with politics, an assessment of the election based on newly available voter file data confirms, as Democratic ...

An intelligent inversion framework for soil parameters in deep excavations is established by using BIM technology, finite difference method (FDM), and nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II ...

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a widely used statistical method in social science. However, many published articles employing SEM appear to contradict its underlying principles and assumptions, ...

Abstract: A fast wideband electromagnetic scattering analysis method based on multistage Taylor expansion (MTE) is proposed. It expands the Green's function with respect to spatial distance and ...

Introduction Urgent, tailored and equitable action is needed to address the alarming rise in syphilis rates in Canada. In the last decade, the rates of infectious syphilis have increased by 345% in ...

Objectives The primary aim of this research is to uncover the underlying factors that shape hospital selection criteria among individuals in Lebanon. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting A survey was ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...