Costs and benefits of orthographic inconsistency in reading:evidence from a cross-linguistic comparison

We compared reading acquisition in English and Italian children up to late primary school analyzing RTs and errors as a function of various psycholinguistic variables and changes due to experience. Our results show that reading becomes progressively more reliant on larger processing units with age, but that this is modulated by consistency of the language. In English, an inconsistent orthography, reliance on larger units occurs earlier on and it is demonstrated by faster RTs, a stronger effect of lexical variables and lack of length effect (by fifth grade). However, not all English children are able to master this mode of processing yielding larger inter-individual variability. In Italian, a consistent orthography, reliance on larger units occurs later and it is less pronounced. This is demonstrated by larger length effects which remain significant even in older children and by larger effects of a global factor (related to speed of orthographic decoding) explaining changes of performance across ages. Our results show the importance of considering not only overall performance, but inter-individual variability and variability between conditions when interpreting cross-linguistic differences

Effects of Low-Dose Aspirin on Vascular Sensitivity to Angiotensin II and on 24 Hours Arterial Blood Pressure in Pregnancy

The angiotensin sensitivity test (AST) was performed in a group of 40 high risk pregnant women before and after oral administration of low doses of aspirin (ASA) (100 mg). AST performed before ASA characterized two groups of patients: 18 with positive AST (AST+) (effective pressor dose (EPD) = 6.91\ub11.69 (mean \ub1 S.D.) ng/Kg/min of angiotensin II (A II)) and 22 with negative AST (AST-) (EPD = 22.44\ub111.23 ng/Kg/min of All). After ASA administration there was a significant increase in EPD in AST+ patients (15.00\ub19.54 ng/Kg/min, p<0.001). In AST- patients the mean EPD was significantly but non-homogeneously changed (18.33\ub18.11 ng/Kg/min). Nineteen pregnant high risk patients also underwent AST between weeks 24 and 39 of gestation. Then systolic, diastolic and mean arterial blood pressure were recorded using a portable device for indirect noninvasive automatic arterial pressure measure before and after seven days of low-dose aspirin therapy. In AST- patients no significant difference was observed before and after ASA regimen, whereas in AST+ patients post ASA mean blood pressure values were lower than pre ASA values, and during nighttime this difference became significant

Preliterate phonological awareness and early literacy skills in Turkish

The role of preschool phonological awareness in early reading and spelling skills was investigated in the transparent orthography of Turkish. Fifty-six preschool children (mean age=5.6 years) were followed into Grade 2 (mean age=7.6 years). While preschool phonological awareness failed to make any reliable contribution to future reading skills, it was the strongest longitudinal correlate of spelling skills measured at the end of Grades 1 and 2. Overall findings suggested that phonological awareness may be differentially related to reading and spelling, and that spelling is a more sensitive index of phonological processing skills. In this study, verbal short-term memory emerged as the most powerful and consistent longitudinal correlate of reading speed. This finding raised important questions about the component processes of reading speed, and the role of memory and morphosyntactic skills in an agglutinative and transparent orthography such as Turkish

A patient-based study on the adherence of physicians to guidelines for the management of type 2 diabetes in Turkey.

Aims: To evaluate physicians' adherence to guidelines by Diabetes Study Group of The Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey (SEMT)

Intraspecific genetic variation matters when predicting seagrass distribution under climate change

Seagrasses play a vital role in structuring coastal marine ecosystems, but their distributional range and genetic diversity have declined rapidly in recent decades. To improve conservation of seagrass species, it is important to predict how climate change may impact their ranges. Such predictions are typically made with correlative species distribution models (SDMs), which can estimate a species' potential distribution under present and future climatic scenarios given species' presence data and climatic predictor variables. However, these models are typically constructed with species-level data, and thus ignore intraspecific genetic variability, which can give rise to populations with adaptations to heterogeneous climatic conditions. Here, we explore the link between intraspecific adaptation and niche differentiation in Thalassia hemprichii, a seagrass broadly distributed in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean and a crucial provider of habitat for numerous marine species. By retrieving and re-analysing microsatellite data from previous studies, we delimited two distinct phylogeographical lineages within the nominal species and found an intermediate level of differentiation in their multidimensional environmental niches, suggesting the possibility for local adaptation. We then compared projections of the species' habitat suitability under climate change scenarios using species-level and lineage-level SDMs. In the Central Tropical Indo-Pacific region, models for both levels predicted considerable range contraction in the future, but the lineage-level models predicted more severe habitat loss. Importantly, the two modelling approaches predicted opposite patterns of habitat change in the Western Tropical Indo-Pacific region. Our results highlight the necessity of conserving distinct populations and genetic pools to avoid regional extinction due to climate change and have important implications for guiding future management of seagrasses.National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Number: 31971395 and 41761144057; European Commission, Grant/ Award Number: H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 and 882221; Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Grant/Award Number: UID/Multi/04326/2019, PTDC/BIA-CBI/6515/2020 and DL57; Thailand Research Fund, Grant/Award Number: RDG6130002; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant/ Award Number: 18K05780info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersio