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Northampton Community College

EducationBethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
About: Northampton Community College is a education organization based out in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3410 authors who have published 4582 publications receiving 130398 citations. The organization is also known as: Northampton County Area Community College.


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01 Jan 2011-Chest
TL;DR: This study confirms previous reports of high incidence and prevalence of sarcoidosis among black women, as well as the extent of extrapulmonary disease, frequent need for steroid therapy, and comorbid conditions in this population.

138 citations

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TL;DR: The article will introduce readers to the concept and methods of EGMs and present a demonstration of the EGM tool using existing examples.

138 citations

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TL;DR: The authors found that poor readers do experience a developmental delay on rhythmic awareness, although there is no significant difference in the children's ability to perceive speech once vocabulary is taken into account.
Abstract: Recent research indicates that the rhythmic properties of speech may indicate to the infant listener where word boundaries are most likely to occur. However, rhythmic awareness is not included in present discussions of phonological awareness. It is suggested that skills which develop in early infancy to facilitate speech perception (i.e. awareness of rhythm) may have an impact upon later phonological development and literacy. This paper outlines a cross-sectional study, designed to examine whether poor readers do show a specific insensitivity to rhythm in speech, and whether they also exhibit signs of inefficient speech perception. Thirty primary school children identified as poor readers were matched for age and gender, and for reading age and gender with two groups of children reading at a level comparable with their chronological age (“normal” readers) (N = 90). All children completed a battery of tasks, including an assessment of rapid speech perception, rhythmic awareness, rhyme detection and phoneme deletion. The results suggest that poor readers do experience a developmental delay on rhythmic awareness, although there is no significant difference in the children's ability to perceive speech once vocabulary is taken into account. Suggestions are made regarding the need to consider non-segmental skills in definitions of phonological awareness, and how this may contribute to our understanding of phonological development.

138 citations

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TL;DR: It was found that participants consistently equated health to physical fitness, and help-seeking behaviour was dictated by social norms, which demanded that a problem should be both physical and sufficiently severe to justify needing help.
Abstract: Objective To explore the factors that influence young men's access to health services with a view to identifying the potential for health promotion interventions in this area.Design A qualitative study using a semi-structured interview schedule with small groups of young men.Setting Interviews were carried out in the field within school and youth settings.Method A series of three focus group interviews were used as a means of gathering qualitative data.Results It was found that participants consistently equated health to physical fitness, and help-seeking behaviour was dictated by social norms. These demanded that a problem should be both physical and sufficiently severe to justify needing help. General Practitioners (GPs) were not a popular choice for confiding because of discomfort associated with communication issues, unfamiliarity and feelings of vulnerability. In some cases this was expressed using homophobic comments. Participants were more likely to confide in female key workers with whom they had ...

138 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, chemical coagulation and flocculculant were used to separate solids from industrial polymer effluent in order to make the effluent dischargeable with suitable characteristics.
Abstract: Polymer industries generate significant amounts of effluent which has to be treated before being discharged into water stream. So far, very little attention has been paid towards polymer effluent treatment by physio-chemical process. In the present study, chemical coagulation–flocculation process was used to separate solids from industrial polymer effluent in order to make the effluent dischargeable with suitable characteristics. Aluminium sulphate [Al 2 (SO4) 3 ] and anionic polyacrylamide (Magnafloc155) were used as coagulant and flocculant respectively. Sulphuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ) and lime solution [Ca(OH) 2 ] were used to adjust the pH values during the treatment process. A series of jar tests were conducted with different values of pH and dosing amounts of coagulant and flocculant. After each test, the supernatant layer of treated effluent was analysed for chemical oxygen demand (COD), suspended solids (SS), colour and turbidity. The process efficiency varied between 10 and 98% in COD removal, between 23 and 91% in suspended solids removal and between 37% and 99% reduction in turbidity. The optimal working pH value for coagulation was found to be 6 and that for flocculation was 8. The optimal doses of coagulant and flocculant were 7.5 mL/L of effluent. These jar testing results have been further proved by a successful pilot scale trial at the polymer plant with 1000 L effluent in an intermediate bulk container (IBC) using the same optimal values of the jar tests, which indicates that the chemical coagulation and flocculation process is a feasible solution for the treatment of effluent generated at polymer industry.

138 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Simon Baron-Cohen172773118071
Pete Smith1562464138819
Martin N. Rossor12867095743
Mark D. Griffiths124123861335
Richard G. Brown8321726205
Brendon Stubbs8175428180
Stuart N. Lane7633715788
Paul W. Burgess6915621038
Thomas Dietz6820337313
Huseyin Sehitoglu6732414378
Susan Golombok6721512856
David S.G. Thomas6322814796
Stephen Morris6344316484
Stephen Robertson6119723363
Michael J. Morgan6026612211
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20233
20221
202182
202073
201968
201865