J Speech Hear Disord
February 1984
This study focused on mother-child interactions during a problem-solving task to determine whether (a) mothers of learning-disabled children engage in conversational buffering to facilitate their child's participation in the task, and (b) whether learning-disabled children differ from nondisabled children in their use of language with their mothers. The results of this study provide some evidence that mothers of both learning-disabled and nondisabled children engage in conversational buffering, although there were few differences between the mothers of the learning-disabled and nondisabled children. Differences between learning-disabled and nondisabled children showed that the learning-disabled were more likely to agree with and less likely to disagree with their mothers than were the nondisabled children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPercept Mot Skills
April 1983
30 learning disabled boys drawn from a segregated private school for learning disabled children and 22 from a public school mainstream program and 22 nondisabled boys performed two physical fitness tests, sit-ups and shuttle run in one of two conditions. While normal achievers performed significantly better on one of the tests, there were no differences between the two samples of learning disabled youngsters. However, students' comparisons of their performance with classmates' indicated that learning disabled youngsters in the private school ranked themselves more favorably than those in mainstream classrooms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Speech Hear Disord
November 1982
Previous studies have generally examined learning disabled children's syntactic ability either on structured tasks or by analyzing oral language samples collected under conditions not typical of natural communicative settings. Thus, these studies are of limited value in exploring the impact of learning disabled children's deficits in linguistic structure on their use of language in social contexts. The purpose of this study was to investigate learning disabled children's syntactic proficiency during a task requiring them to convey information to a listener.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBy using low-stringency nucleic acid hybridization conditions and specific subgenomic segments of the AKR ecotropic provirus as probes, murine leukemia virus (MuLV)-related sequences were detected in African green monkey (AGM) liver DNA. The MuLV-reactive segments present in restricted AGM DNA ranged from 1.9 kilobases (kb) to greater than 10 kb in size.
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August 1981
Using nonstringent annealing conditions and a 2.75-kilobase segment of cloned African green monkey DNA that specifically hybridizes to the proviruses of AKR ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) and baboon endogenous virus (BaEV) as a probe, we detected related sequences in three different preparations of human brain DNA fragments. The blot-hybridization pattern obtained with cleaved human DNA was similar to that previously reported for the interaction of MuLV cDNA and cleaved mouse DNA and suggested the presence of numerous copies of retrovirus-related sequences in the human genome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfusions of sucrose or quinine were delivered through cannulas implanted in rat pup's mouths. Intake was measured, and behavioral responses were scored. Responsiveness to sweet and bitter tastes emerged over the first 2 wk of postnatal life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA specific probe for detecting ecotropic murine leukemia virus sequences was constructed by cloning a 500-base-pair DNA segment, corresponding to a portion of the env region of the AKR ecotropic virus, in a pBR322/Escherichia coli K-12 host/vector system. This probe was used to screen the cellular DNAs of six inbred strains of mice for the presence of ecotropic retroviral DNA sequences by the Southern blot hybridization procedure. Three copies of ecotropic viral DNA were detected in AKR/N (a high-ecotropic virus strain) and two were found in BALB/c (a low-ecotropic virus strain) DNAs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Learn Disabil
February 1978
Day-old chicks were infected with Salmonella typhimurium. The impact on the intestinal mucosa was observed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Salmonella infected birds were characterized as having areas on their intestinal mucosal cells devoid of microvilli.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSamples of trachea were examined with light microscope, fluorescent microscope, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Negative controls and infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) positive samples were compared. Histopathology illustrated lesions characteristic fo ILT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA high incidence of feather follicle infection was observed in broilers reared in cages with wood slat floors. The incidence of feather follicle infection was significantly higher for males than for females within cage-reared broilers at 59 days of age. Male broilers at 50 days of age had a significantly lower incidence of the feather follicle condition than hatch mates at 59 days of age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cecal mucosal changes of a subclinical coccidial (E. tenella) in chickens was studied by scanning electron microscopy. Oral inoculation was used and the mucosal surface of the ceca was studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA recently marketed reagent strip designed for clinical urinalysis, Microstix, has been found to be useful in rapid and simple examination of water sources for baby chicks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFive-week-old broilers were submitted to the diagnostic laboratory showing sudden onset of incoordination, ataxia, anorexia, dehydration and coma. Groups of birds were being fed the New England Conference (NECC) broiler diets in which scallop viscera was added. Moribund birds receiving thiamine hydrochloride recovered without complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStrains of Bacillus that harbor defective phage PBSX were found to be insensitive to SP-10(C), although the phage adsorbed to these insensitive strains. Strains that did not carry the phage were sensitive to SP-10(C). B.
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