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Exploring Interventions to Reduce Cognitive Decline in Aging
(Slack, 2010-05)As the population ages, risks for cognitive decline threaten independence and quality of life for older adults and present challenges to the health care system. Nurses are in a unique position to advise older adults about ... -
Young and Older Adults’ Reading of Distracters
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008-05)Eye-tracking technology was employed to examine young and older adults' performance in the reading with distraction paradigm. Distracters of 1, 2, and 4 words that formed meaningful phrases were used. There were marked age ... -
Book Review: Effects of Climate Change on Birds
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The Age-Invariance of Working Memory Measures and Non-invariance of Producing Complex Syntax: A Reply to Caplan and Waters
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)In challenging current conceptions of the role of working memory in sentence processing, Caplan & Waters consider studies comparing young and older adults on sentence processing. This commentary raises two challenges to ... -
Eocene spiders from the Isle of Wight with preserved respiratory structures
(The Palaeontological Association, 2001)A new fossil spider, Vectaraneus yulei gen. et sp. nov., from the Eocene Bembridge Marls Insect Bed of the Isle of Wight, shows internal anatomy, including book lungs and tracheae, preserved by calcium carbonate replacement. ... -
A new carcinosomatid eurypterid from the Siluro-Devonian of northern Vietnam
(The Palaeontological Association, 2002)A new carcinosomatid eurypterid, Rhinocarcinosoma dosonensis sp. nov., and Hughmilleria sp., are described from the Do Son Formation of the Do Son Peninsula, northern Vietnam. R. dosonensis is characterized by podomere ... -
First British Mesozoic spider, from Cretaceous amber of the Isle of Wight, southern England
(The Palaeontological Association, 2002)Cretamygale chasei, a new genus and species of spider, is described from a single specimen preserved in amber of early Barremian age from the Isle of Wight. This is the oldest (and second Cretaceous) amber spider to be ... -
A trigonotarbid arachnid from the early Devonian of Tredomen, Wales
(The Palaeontological Association, 2004)A new trigonotarbid (Arachnida: Trigonotarbida) Arianrhoda bennetti gen. et sp. nov. is described from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of a quarry near Tredomen, Powys, mid Wales, UK. This relatively complete specimen is ... -
Mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Lagerstätte, Araripe Basin, north-east Brazil
(The Palaeontological Association, 2006)The first mygalomorph spiders from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Lagersta¨tte of Ceara` Province, north-east Brazil, are described, from adult males and females, in two new genera and species: Cretadiplura ceara Selden, gen. ... -
A Silurian eurypterid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from China
(The Palaeontological Association, 2007)The oldest eurypterid from China is described as Hughmilleria wangi sp. nov., from the Xiaoxiyu Formation (Silurian: latest Llandovery) of Hunan Province. H. wangi is relatively similar to two species from North America, ... -
An oribatid mite (Arachnida: Acari) from the Oxford Clay (Jurassic: Upper Callovian) of South Cave Station Quarry, Yorkshire, UK
(The Palaeontological Association, 2008)A single specimen of a new species of oribatid mite belonging to the genus Jureremus Krivolutsky, in Krivolutsky and Krassilov 1977, previously described from the Upper Jurassic of the Russian Far East, is described as J. ... -
A new Silurian xiphosuran from Podolia, Ukraine, USSR
(The Palaeontological Association, 1987)A single incomplete specimen of a xiphosuran, Pasternakevia podolica gen. et sp. nov., from the Ludlow Series of Podolia, Ukraine, USSR, is described. It has a smooth, spatulate carapace and rounded genal cornua. The ... -
Lower Cretaceous spiders from the Sierra de Montsech, north-east Spain
(The Palaeontological Association, 1990)Four new specimens of spiders (Chelicerata: Araneae), from Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian-Valanginian) lithographic limestones of the Sierra de Montsech, Lérida Province, north-east Spain, are described, as Cretaraneus ... -
A Triassic mygalomorph spider from the northern Vosges, France
(The Palaeontological Association, 1992)The oldest fossil mygalomorph spider, from the Anîsian Grès à Voltzia of the northern Vosges. France, is described as Rosamygale grauvogeli gen. el sp. nov. The spider exhibits mainly ptesiornorphic characters. It is a ... -
The first Mesozoic Solifugae (Arachnida), from the Cretaceous of Brazil, and a redescription of the Palaeozoic solifuge
(1996)The first Mesozoic solifuge, from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation of Ceara province, Brazil, is described and named as Cratosolpuga wunderlichi Selden, gen. et sp. nov. and placed in the extant family Ceromidae. ... -
Life-span changes to adults' language: Effects of memory and genre
(Cambridge University Press, 1989)Three different language samples were collected from a group of young adults, 18 to 28 years of age, and a group of elderly adults, 60 to 92 years of age: an oral questionnaire eliciting information about the adults' ... -
Competing complexity metrics and adults' production of complex sentences
(Cambridge University Press, 1992)The adequacy of 11 metrics for measuring linguistic complexity was evaluated by applying each metric to language samples obtained from 30 different adult speakers, aged 60-90 years. The analysis then determined how well ... -
Book Review: The Private Life of Spiders by Paul Hillyard (2007)
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A new identity for the Silurian arthropod Necrogammarus
(The Palaeontological Association, 1986)Restudyof the enigmatic arthropod Necrogammarus salweyi Woodward, hitherto considered to be a crustacean or myriapod, reveals that it is the infracapitulum (fused labrum and palpal coxae) and palp of a large but unspecified ... -
Imitation of complex grammatical constructions by elderly adults
(Cambridge University Press, 1986)Elderly adults (70 to 89 years) and young adults (30 to 49 years) were asked to imitate complex sentences involving embedded gerunds, w/z-clauses, r/ia/-clauses, and relative clauses. The young adults were able to imitate ...