Deafness enhances perceptual span size in Chinese reading: Evidence from a gaze-contingent moving-window paradigm.

Using a gaze-contingent moving-window paradigm, we investigated whether/how deafness affects perceptual processing in Chinese reading. Besides the manipulation of window size, word length of sentences used in the experiment was also manipulated to check whether deafness enhanced the word length effect on perceptual span. Significant interactions of window constraints and deafness and a three-way interaction were observed on reading rate.

[Analysis on the relationship between malaria epidemics and NOAA-AVHRR NDVI in Hainan province].

Objective: To explore the relationship between malaria epidemics and NOAA-AVHRR NDVI.

Methods: Data on malaria were collected in all 19 counties in Hainan province from Feb, 1995 to Jan, 1996. Values regarding normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)-related indicators including mean and maximum values of NDVI, the area proportion of NDVI values of 145- and 145+, months with NDVI values of 135+, 140+, 145+, 150+ of these counties in this period were all extracted from NOAA-AVHRR images, using ERDAS8.

[Study on the distribution of malaria in Hainan province through spatial local interpolation technique].

Objective: To explore the spatial distribution of malaria in Hainan province.

Methods: Maps of spatial distribution on malaria incidence in Hainan province from 1995 to 1999 were produced, using a spatial local interpolation technique in the ArcGIS 8.1 software.