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Dixie and the school trip
When Dixie sneaks her way onto the school bus with Emma, the two friends are in for a real trip! A class trip, in fact, to the dinosaur museum.
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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age
During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping experiences. Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed – often to a degree of dazzling sophistication – between the years 800AD to 1450AD. Beautifully illustrated with 100 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations.
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Dixie and the good deeds
\"Emma is volunteering around town for a school project--and Dixie wants to help out!\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Discourse Characteristics in Aphasia Beyond the Western Aphasia Battery Cutoff
This study examined discourse characteristics of individuals with aphasia who scored at or above the 93.8 cutoff on the Aphasia Quotient subtests of the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R; Kertesz, 2007). They were compared with participants without aphasia and those with anomic aphasia.
Participants were from the AphasiaBank database and included 28 participants who were not aphasic by WAB-R score (NABW), 92 participants with anomic aphasia, and 177 controls. Cinderella narratives were analyzed using the Computerized Language Analysis programs (MacWhinney, 2000). Outcome measures were words per minute, percent word errors, lexical diversity using the moving average type-token ratio (Covington, 2007b), main concept production, number of utterances, mean length of utterance, and proposition density.
Results showed that the NABW group was significantly different from the controls on all measures except MLU and proposition density. These individuals were compared to participants without aphasia and those with anomic aphasia.
Individuals with aphasia who score above the WAB-R Aphasia Quotient cutoff demonstrate discourse impairments that warrant both treatment and special attention in the research literature.
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Dixie
Dixie the puppy plays with Emma every day after school until Emma starts memorizing her lines for the school play.
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A Large-Scale Comparison of Main Concept Production Between Persons With Aphasia and Persons Without Brain Injury
Purpose The purposes of this study are to provide clinicians and researchers with introductory psychometric data for the main concept analysis (MCA), a measure of discourse informativeness, and specifically, to provide descriptive and comparative statistical information about the performance of a large sample of persons not brain injured (PNBIs) and persons with aphasia (PWAs) on AphasiaBank discourse tasks. Method Transcripts of 5 semi-spontaneous discourse tasks were retrieved from the AphasiaBank database and scored according to detailed checklists and scoring procedures. Transcripts from 145 PNBIs and 238 PWAs were scored; descriptive statistics, median tests, and effect sizes are reported. Results PWAs demonstrated overall lower informativeness scores and more frequent production of statements that were inaccurate and/or incomplete. Differences between PNBIs and PWAs were observed for all main concept measures and stories. Comparisons of PNBIs and aphasia subtypes revealed significant differences for all groups, although the pattern of differences and strength of effect sizes varied by group and discourse task. Conclusions These results may improve the investigative and clinical utility of the MCA by providing descriptive and comparative information for PNBIs and PWAs for standardized discourse tasks that can be reliably scored. The results indicate that the MCA is sensitive to differences in discourse as a result of aphasia. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7485647.
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Winning with ADHD : a playbook for teens & young adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
\"If you're a teen with ADHD, you care about academic and social success just as much as your peers do, but you may also experience difficulties keeping up in school and maintaining good relationships with friends and family. In addition, you probably find it challenging to stay organized, articulate your struggles to others, and cope with overwhelming pressure--especially as college approaches. This workbook [offers] skills for addressing the challenges of ADHD so you can live up to your true potential\"--Publisher marketing.
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The curious case of the Cat Rescue: can picture narrative description inform visuospatial processing in aphasia?
Examining discourse production during picture description performance holds great promise for understanding the nature of and the interconnectedness between visuospatial processing and language production in aphasia - a language disorder following acquired brain damage. There is a paucity of studies concurrently investigating the two processes in discourse production tasks, despite their potential clinical utility in aphasia rehabilitation. In the current study, we compared the core lexicon (CoreLex) word production performance of PWA and matched healthy control participants (HCP) along the dimensions of typicality of words (e.g., the words most frequently used by a normative sample of healthy controls), CoreLex word production timing, as well as the indirect visuospatial measures of order and spatial location of CoreLex word productions across the four quadrants of the Cat Rescue picture in a story telling task.
A total of 319 transcripts from HCP and 400 transcripts from PWA, all of whom completed the picture description task of the Cat Rescue were drawn from the AphasiaBank database-the largest repository of aphasic discourse samples in the world. For each transcript, CoreLex scores and timing data of word production - including the elapsed time to produce each core lexicon content item and the first core lexicon content word in each quadrant-were indexed across the four quadrants of the Cat Rescue picture using the CLAN (Computerized Language ANalysis) program.
CoreLex analysis revealed that PWA were significantly slower compared to HCP in producing the first CoreLex word for each quadrant of the picture. PWA also demonstrated delayed CoreLex word production times across all the four quadrants, as well as lower rates of certain CoreLex word production compared to HCP. Aphasia severity was inversely related to the latency and accuracy of CoreLex production.
Study findings offer preliminary evidence for the clinical utility of integrating concurrent visuospatial processing and language production tasks as part of discourse assessment in PWA. Future implications for further expanding and refining discourse-based visuospatial processing assessment tools in aphasia rehabilitation are discussed.
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A cultural history of dress and fashion
A cultural history of dress and fashion' presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers over 2,500 years of dress and fashion. Volume 1: Antiquity (500BCE-800AD), edited by Mary Harlow; Volume 2: The Medieval Age (800-1450), edited by Sarah-Grace Heller; Volume 3: The Renaissance (1450-1650), edited by Elizabeth Currie; Volume 4: The Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800), edited by Peter McNeil; Volume 5: The Age of Empire (1800-1920), edited by Denise Amy Baxter; Volume 6: The Modern Age (1920-2000+), edited by Alexandra Palmer. Each volume discusses the same key themes in its chapters: 1. Textiles 2. Production and Distribution 3. The Body 4. Belief 5. Gender and Sexuality 6. Status 7. Ethnicity 8. Visual Representations 9. Literary Representations. This structure means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on dress and fashion through history.
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The intermingling of meanings in marketing: semiology and phenomenology in consumer culture theory
This paper explores the construction of meaning in consumer culture through a synthesis of two scholarly streams within the Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) body of knowledge: semiology and phenomenology. Semiology represents consumer culture as a web of meanings—studying cultural meanings as socially agreed-upon structures. By contrast, phenomenology represents the interpretation and personalization of cultural meanings by consumers—focusing on meanings that emerge from individual lived experience. Combining these two approaches results in a framework that excavates meanings at both the cultural level and the individual level, inviting them into a figure-ground relationship. This relationship between levels of analysis illuminates how meaning in consumer culture is constructed, and how cultural meanings come to constitute a sense of normalcy in modern societies. As all marketing activity is culturally situated, understanding meaning in consumer culture provides an alternative way to understand value in marketing.
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