European cancer mortality predictions for the year 2012

Background: Estimating current cancer mortality figures is important for defining priorities for prevention and treatment. Materials and methods: Using logarithmic Poisson count data joinpoint models on mortality and population data from the World Health Organization database, we estimated numbers of deaths and age-standardized rates in 2012 from all cancers and selected cancer sites for the whole European Union (EU) and its six more populated countries. Results: Cancer deaths in the EU in 2012 are estimated to be 1 283 101 (717 398 men and 565 703 women) corresponding to standardized overall cancer death rates of 139/100 000 men and 85/100 000 women. The fall from 2007 was 10% in men and 7% in women. In men, declines are predicted for stomach (−20%), leukemias (−11%), lung and prostate (−10%) and colorectal (−7%) cancers, and for stomach (−23%), leukemias (−12%), uterus and colorectum (−11%) and breast (−9%) in women. Almost stable rates are expected for pancreatic cancer (+2-3%) and increases for female lung cancer (+7%). Younger women show the greatest falls in breast cancer mortality rates in the EU (−17%), and declines are expected in all individual countries, except Poland. Conclusion: Apart for lung cancer in women and pancreatic cancer, continuing falls are expected in mortality from major cancers in the E

Assessing connective understanding with visual and verbal tasks

.The role of temporal and causal connectives is relevant in reading comprehension. Children with comprehension difficulties have problems in interpreting these connectives (e.g. Amidon, 1976; Feagans, 1980; Pyykk\uf4nen, Niemi and J\ue4rvikivi, 2003; Trosborg, 1982). The Adaptive Learning System (ALS) TERENCE aims to develop children\u2019s comprehension through the use of adaptive visual and verbal games. Within this framework, the purpose of this study was to assess connective comprehension with three visual and verbal tasks. Two hundred and eight English and Italian children participated in this study. The main results show that the use of pictures does not always support comprehension. Moreover, less skilled children perform better at simultaneous connective \u201cwhile\u201d compared to the temporal sequential connectives (before, after) and causal (because) ones

Multilanguage Written Picture Naming Dataset

<p>Timed naming data in 14 European languages for pictures in the Rossion and Pourtois (2004) colourised version of the Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980) set of pictures of 260 everyday objects. For each language we provide by-picture "norms", including name and spelling diversity, response time and mean interkey-interval. We also provide the by-trial data from which these were derived. Please see the Readme file for more details and <br></p><p>Torrance, M., Nottbusch, G., Alves, R. A., Arfé, B., Chanquoy, L., Chukharev-Hudilainen, E., … Wengelin, Å. (2017). Timed written picture naming in 14 European languages. <i>Behavior Research Methods</i>. http://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0902-x</p>for a full explanation (open access).<br