Children With Developmental Language Disorder Have an Auditory Verbal Statistical Learning Deficit: Evidence From an Online Measure
LANGUAGE LEARNING
Authors: Lammertink, Imme; Boersma, Paul; Wijnen, Frank; Rispens, Judith
Abstract
Successful language use requires the ability to process nonadjacent dependencies (NADs) that occur in linguistic input. Learning such structural regularities seems therefore crucial for children, and researchers have indeed proposed that language problems in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), especially problems with grammar, are due to their decreased sensitivity to NADs. Because the evidence supporting this claim is scarce, we compared children with DLD (n = 36; M-age = 9.1 years) and without DLD (n = 36; M-age = 9.1 years) performing a learning task with NADs. Using response times as an online measure of learning NADs, we observed that participants with DLD were less sensitive to NADs than were typically developing peers. The confidence intervals of the effect, however, indicated that the effect was probably small in size. We discuss clinical and theoretical implications of the present study in light of this effect size. Open Practices This article has been awarded Open Materials and Open Data badges. All data, materials, and analysis scripts for this study are publicly accessible via the Open Science Framework at . The study materials are also publicly available via the IRIS database at . Learn more about the Open Practices badges from the Center for Open Science: .
AN INTEGRATED MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR FAST ISOLATION OF BACTERIA IN HUMAN WHOLE BLOOD FOR DIAGNOSIS OF SEPSIS
2020 33RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS 2020)
Authors: Fang, Yen-Ling; Lee, Wen-Bin; Wang, Chih-Hung; Chien, Chun-Chih; You, Huey-Ling; Lee, Mel S.; Lee, Gwo-Bin
Abstract
Rapid diagnosis of sepsis assists clinicians to initiate timely antibiotic therapy and therefore reduce mortality. of bacterial infections. In this work, we presented an integrated microfluidic system for fast isolation of bacteria for both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria directly from human whole blood, which will be crucial in the detection of sepsis. First, a deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) device was used for sample pretreatment of whole blood, which performed continuous separation of leukocytes, erythrocytes and bacteria. With this approach, most of the blood cells were removed while bacteria and platelets were collected. Then the isolated bacteria were captured with magnetic beads surface-coated with flexible neck regions of mannose-binding lectin (FcMBL) using a new 3D micromixer. The entire process including sample pretreatment and bacteria isolation could be completed on an integrated microfluidic system within 2 hours, which is significantly less than the one for the traditional method (i.e. 3 days). This is the first time that an integrated microfluidic system capable of detecting bacteria by using FcMBL was reported, which may provide a promising way to diagnose sepsis.