The motor core of speech: a comparison of serial organization patterns in infants and languages     

MacNeilage PF  Davis BL  Kinney A  Matyear CL 《Child development》2000,71(1):153-163

Comparison of serial organization of infant babbling and early speech with that of 10 languages reveals four movement-related design features reflecting a deep evolutionary heritage: (1) the cyclical consonant-vowel alternation underlying the syllable, a "Frame" for speech consisting of mandibular oscillation, possibly evolving from ingestive cyclicities (e.g., chewing) via visuofacial communicative cyclicities (e.g., lipsmacks); (2) three intracyclical consonant-vowel co-occurrence preferences reflecting basic biomechanical constraints-coronal consonants-front vowels, dorsal consonants-back vowels, and labial consonants-central vowels; (3) a developmental progression from above-chance to below-chance levels of intercyclical consonant repetition; (4) an ease-related labial consonant-vowel-coronal consonant sequence preference for word initiation. These design features presumably result from self-organizational responses to selection pressures, primarily determined by motor factors. No explanation for these design features is available from Universal Grammar, and, except for feature 3, perceptual-motor learning seems to have only a limited causal role in acquisition of any design feature.  相似文献   

Put it to the vote     

Coghlan A  Boyce N 《New scientist (1971)》2000,167(2252):4-5

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The initiation of distance learning at Thomas Jefferson University: the library as integral partner     

Frisby AJ  Jones SS 《Medical reference services quarterly》2000,19(3):19-37

In 1998 Thomas Jefferson University offered its first entirely online course. Librarians and library staff were integral in the development, support, evaluation, and refinement of this course. While staff members may have taken non-traditional roles in this effort, their roles generally fell within the broad guidelines of assisting University faculty with information and knowledge management. The development and support of distance course offerings will continue to be a focus at Scott Memorial Library.  相似文献   

The Great Fire and the Chicago College of Pharmacy     

Overmier JA 《Libraries & culture》2000,35(2):354-357

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A review of batting in men's cricket     

Stretch RA  Bartlett R  Davids K 《Journal of sports sciences》2000,18(12):931-949

In this review, we critically evaluate the scientific research into the morphology and physiology of cricket batsmen. We consider all aspects of the motor control of this skill, in the context of research into dynamic interceptive actions, the biomechanics (kinematics and kinetics) of the various phases of batting strokes and injuries to batsmen. Some attention is also devoted to batting equipment and to psychological factors in batting. Because of the lack of published scientific research into women's cricket, this review focuses on the men's game and covers research on batsmen of various playing standards. For the future, we see as a high priority research into injury mechanisms, rather than simple injury statistics, and the role of cricket equipment design in injury prevention. A second priority is for multi- or inter-disciplinary research, linking the biomechanics of batting to the underlying motor control of the movements and the effect of environmental information. Biomechanical studies of the variability of the batsman's movements are needed, and these should be related to the compensatory variability proposal of ecological psychology. Clearly, there is also a need for scientific research into batting in women's cricket, which has been inadequately researched to date.  相似文献   

Leisure time physical activity in Australian women: relationship with well being and symptoms   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Brown WJ  Mishra G  Lee C  Bauman A 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2000,71(3):206-216

This paper explores the association between moderate levels of physical activity (PA) and health benefits in well being and symptoms such as tiredness, back pain, and constipation. Participants in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, 14,502 young women (ages 18-23 years), 13,609 middle-age women (45-50 years), and 11,421 older women (ages 70-75 years), answered questions about vigorous and less vigorous exercise (used to determine a physical activity score), well being (SF-36), symptoms, and medical conditions. There were significant associations between the PA score and SF-36 in each cohort. Odds ratios (OR) for a range of symptoms and conditions were lower for women who reported low to moderate activity than for sedentary women, for example, for young women or for constipation = 0.76 (CI, 0.65-0.89), for middle-age women or for tiredness = 0.70 (0.63-0.78). There was no threshold of PA at which health benefits increased significantly. Although cross-sectional, the findings suggest that low-to-moderate levels of exercise are associated with a range of health benefits for women of all ages. These preliminary findings will be followed up during the longitudinal study.  相似文献   

Enablers and constraints to walking for older African American and American Indian women: the Cultural Activity Participation Study     

Henderson KA  Ainsworth BE 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2000,71(4):313-321

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Temporal patterning of competitive emotions: a critical review   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Cerin E  Szabo A  Hunt N  Williams C 《Journal of sports sciences》2000,18(8):605-626

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BIOSIS previews: the power of codes     

Prasek MA 《Medical reference services quarterly》1998,17(2):43-49

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Into the future: The foundations of library and information services in the post-industrial era: Harris, Michael H., Hannah, Stan A., & Harris, Pamela C. 2 edition. Greenwich, CN: Ablex Publishing, 1998. 150 pp. $73.25 (hardcover). ISBN 1-56750-354-3     

Don A. Wicks 《Library & information science research》1998,20(4):435-437

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