Publications by authors named "A J Picaud"
Most languages of the world use lexical tones to contrast words. Thus, understanding how individuals process tones when learning new words is fundamental for a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying word learning. The current study asked how tonal information is integrated during word learning.
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- The study investigates how young infants discriminate lexical tones based on their native language, age, language experience, and tone properties, revealing important insights into language learning.
- Conducted across 13 laboratories globally, it involved testing monolingual and bilingual infants aged 5 to 17 months using the same experimental setup focused on Cantonese tone contrasts.
- Results show that while infants not exposed to Cantonese effectively discriminated between non-native tone contrasts, Cantonese-learning infants did not demonstrate significant native discrimination, suggesting persistent tone sensitivity in infants and challenging current theories on perceptual narrowing.
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- - The study explores the prevalence and risk factors of enthesopathies in adults with X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), highlighting that these conditions contribute to a poor quality of life.
- - A total of 114 XLH patients were included, revealing that 67% had enthesopathies, with older age and severe dental issues being significantly associated with their occurrence.
- - No direct correlation was found between specific PHEX mutations and the presence of enthesopathies, indicating that other factors, such as age and dental health, play a more critical role.
Background: Very little data are available concerning the prehospital emergency care of cancer patients. The objective of this study is to report the trajectories and outcomes of cancer patients attended by prehospital emergency services.
Methods: This was an ancillary study from a three-day cross-sectional prospective multicenter study in France.
In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the onset of septum formation is signalled via the septation initiation network (SIN) involving several protein kinases and a GTPase. Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus proteins homologous to fission yeast spg1p (AtSGP1, AtSGP2), cdc7p (AtMAP3K epsilon 1, AtMAP3K epsilon 2, BnMAP3K epsilon 1) and sid1p (AtMAP4K alpha 1, AtMAP4K alpha 2, BnMAP4K alpha 2) exhibit a significant similarity. The plant proteins AtSGP1/2 and BnMAP4K alpha 2 are able to complement the S.
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