Does the Effectiveness of a Reading Intervention Differ Dependent on Students' Spanish or English Proficiencies?

This study investigated whether linguistic proficiencies in students' first language (L1)- Spanish-and English (L2) moderated the response to intensive reading intervention for sixth- and seventh-grade multilingual learners (MLs) with reading difficulties. We used confirmatory factor analysis to estimate proficiency scores in English and Spanish using measures of expressive and receptive vocabulary, syntax, and grammar. We then used latent variable moderated structural equation modeling to evaluate how proficiency in English and Spanish moderated the effect of treatment on students' reading outcomes in response to intervention.

The effect of SARS-CoV-2 on the incidence of post-operative venous sinus thrombosis following skull base procedures.

Purpose: Sinus thrombosis is a common post-operative finding after posterior fossa surgery performed in the vicinity of the dural venous sinuses. The SARS-CoV-2 virus has been shown to confer an increased risk of venous thromboembolic events owing to eliciting a hyper-inflammatory and pro-thrombotic state. In this study, we examine the incidence of post-operative venous sinus thrombosis in patients undergoing peri-sigmoid posterior fossa surgery in the pre- and post-COVID era and investigate whether COVID infection confers an increased risk of sinus thrombosis.

How I do it: hearing preservation in large vestibular schwannomas using vestibular nerve fiber preservation technique.

Background: To improve hearing function after resection of large vestibular schwannomas, we describe a strategy of vestibular-nerve-fiber preservation. Anatomical considerations and stepwise dissection are described.

Method: Steps include locating the vestibular nerve at the brainstem and identifying a dissection plane between nerve fibers and tumor capsule.

Use of a SC5314 PacBio HiFi reads dataset to close gaps in the reference genome assembly, reveal a subtelomeric gene family, and produce accurate phased allelic sequences.

SC5314 is the most-often used strain for molecular manipulation of the species. The SC5314 reference genome sequence is the result of considerable effort from many scientists and has advanced research into fungal biology and pathogenesis. Although the resource is highly developed and presented in a phased diploid format, the sequence includes gaps and does not extend to the telomeres on its eight chromosome pairs.