bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
An exploratory trial of the effectiveness of an enhanced consultative approach to delivering speech and language intervention in schools
Authors: Mecrow Carol , Beckwith Jennie , Klee Thomas 
Published: February 2010

Background: Increased demand for access to specialist services for providing support to children with speech, language and communication needs prompted a local service review of how best to allocate limited resources. This study arose as a consequence of a wish to evaluate the effectiveness of an enhanced consultative approach to delivering speech and language intervention in local schools.Aims: The purpose was to evaluate an intensive speech and language intervention for children in mainstream schools delivered by specialist teaching assistants.Methods & Procedures: A within‐subjects, quasi‐experimental exploratory trial was conducted, with each child serving as his or her own control with respect to the primary outcome measure. Thirty‐five children between the ages of 4;2 and 6;10 (years; months) received speech and/or language intervention for an average of four 1‐hour sessions per week over 10 weeks. The primary outcome measure consisted of change between pre‐ and post‐intervention scores on probe tasks of treated and untreated behaviours summed across the group of children, and maintenance probes of treated behaviours. Secondary outcome measures included standardized tests (Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals — PreschoolUK (CELF‐PUK); Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP)) and questionnaires completed by parents/carers and school staff before and after the intervention period.Outcome & Results: The primary outcome measure showed improvement over the intervention period, with target behaviours showing a significantly larger increase than control behaviours. The gains made on the target behaviours as a result of intervention were sustained when reassessed 3–12 months later. These findings were replicated on a second set of targets and controls. Significant gains were also observed on CELF‐PreschoolUK receptive and expressive language standard scores from pre‐ to post‐intervention. However, DEAP standard scores of speech ability did not increase over the intervention period, although improvements in raw scores were observed. Questionnaires completed before and after intervention showed some significant differences relating to how much the child's speech and language difficulties affected him/her at home and at school.Conclusions & Implications: This exploratory study demonstrates the benefit of an intensive therapy delivered by specialist teaching assistants for remediating speech and language difficulties experienced by young children in mainstream schools. The service delivery model was perceived by professionals as offering an inclusive and effective practice and provides empirical support for using both direct and indirect intervention in the school setting.
Communication and Huntington's disease: qualitative interviews and focus groups with persons with Huntington's disease, family members, and carers
Authors: Hartelius Lena , Jonsson Maria , Rickeberg Anneli , Laakso Katja 
Published: February 2010

Background: As an effect of the cognitive, emotional and motor symptoms associated with Huntington's disease, communicative interaction is often dramatically changed. No study has previously included the subjective reports on this subject from individuals with Huntington's disease.Aims: To explore the qualitative aspects of how communication is affected by Huntington's disease from a triangular perspective represented by individuals with Huntington's disease, family members and professional carers.Methods & Procedures: Eleven persons with Huntington's disease, seven family members and ten carers were interviewed in focus groups or individually, using a semi‐structured interview guide. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic content analysis, resulting in a number of free codes concerning communication. The codes describing related phenomena were merged into categories. Categories were analysed and reanalysed resulting in three major themes, common to the three groups of participants.Outcomes & Results: The themes found were: Communication has changed; Factors that influence communication negatively; and Factors that influence communication positively. Subcategories differed between the three groups. All participants seemed to acknowledge the variability and lack of initiative in communication. The persons without Huntington's disease focused on the changes in terms of speech, language comprehension, the lack of depth in conversation and the need to make adjustments, while the persons with Huntington's disease focused on the effort and concentration demanded to communicate. They described the change they perceived in their communicative ability in terms of loss. All participants thought that an emotional load had a negative impact on communication. Furthermore, individuals with Huntington's disease stressed that other people's speed of communication had a negative impact, while family members and carers stressed that things such as personality changes in persons with Huntington's disease and lack of eye contact with them influenced communication negatively. All participants acknowledged the need for increased participation in social life in order to enhance communication.Conclusions & Implications: In brief, persons with Huntington's disease expressed a need for a richer social life and more (adjusting) conversation partners, family members expressed a need for more support and professional carers wanted more information about Huntington's disease. The triangular perspective utilized in the present study completed the picture of the communicative consequences of Huntington's disease. In particular, it became clear, that the insights of persons with Huntington's disease can and has to be included in communicative assessments and plans for intervention.
Augmentin Duo™ in the Treatment of Childhood Blepharokeratoconjunctivitis
Authors: Cehajic-Kapetanovic Jasmina , Kwartz Jeff 
Published: February 2010

Purpose:
To report the use of Augmentin Duo 400/57 (GlaxoSmithKline, Middlesex, UK) in the treatment of childhood blepharokeratoconjunctivitis (BKC).

Methods:
This is a retrospective interventional case series. The case notes of 7 consecutive patients treated with Augmentin Duo 400/57 for BKC during 18 months were reviewed. Diagnostic criteria for BKC were blepharitis including recurrent chalazia and meibomian gland dysfunction, eyelid margin telangiectasia and facial rosacea, recurrent episodes of chronic red eye, photophobia, watering, punctate superficial keratopathy, corneal neovascularization, and corneal ulcers.

Results:
Seven children (age range: 6 to 14 years) were diagnosed as having BKC. All children received systemic Augmentin Duo 400/57 and showed considerable improvement within the first month of therapy. Six children had no recurrences during a mean follow-up of 6 months. No patients experienced any side effects from this treatment.

Conclusions:
Augmentin Duo 400/57 has not previously been reported in the treatment of BKC in children. In this case series, Augmentin Duo 400/57 proved to be at least as effective as current treatments with systemic erythromycin or doxycycline with the advantage of a twice-daily dosage and a superior side-effect profile.
Convergence Excess Esotropia: A Proposed New Classification and the Effect of Monocular Occlusion on the Ac/A Ratio
Authors: Garretty Tess 
Published: February 2010

Background:
Convergence excess esotropia defines an esotropia on accommodation at near fixation with binocular single vision and motor fusion at distance fixation associated with a high accommodative convergence: accommodation (Ac/A) ratio. The effect of occlusion on exotropia has been well described and is known to alter the Ac/A ratio. This study examines the effect of monocular occlusion on convergence excess esotropia.

Methods:
The Ac/A ratio was measured using the gradient method at 1/3 and 6 m in 10 patients with convergence excess esotropia immediately prior to and following a 30-minute period of monocular occlusion.

Results:
Clinically and statistically significant differences to the angle of deviation and the Ac/A ratio were found in some patients following occlusion.

Conclusion:
Ac/A ratio measurement in convergence excess esotropia is influenced by fusional tenacity. Disrupting this fusion with a period of monocular occlusion results in changes to the angle of deviation in some patients, suggesting subcategorization of this condition into true and simulated convergence excess esotropia. Measurements of the Ac/A ratio are influenced by fixation distance.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF NEONYMPHA EURYTRIS
Authors: Edwards W. H. 
Published: February 2010

Egg–Sub-globose, well rounded in every part, but somewhat broadest below the middle; wholly covered by fine,irregularly hexagonal reticulations, scarcely raised above the surface; color yellow-green. Duration of this stage 8 days.Young Larva–Length .08 inch; cylindrical, thickest in middle, tapering pretty evenly either way, the last segment ending in two short tails; body covered with fine white hairs, slightly recurved; color pink-white, marked longitudinally by seven crimson lines, one of which is medio-dorsal, and three on either side; head sub-globose, nearly twice as broad as any body segment, flattened frontally, depressed slightly at top, and with a small conical process upon each vertex; color dark brown. To next stage 7 days.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BRONCHELIA
Authors: Andrews W. V. 
Published: February 2010

Bronchelia gravilinearia, n. sp.The general ground color of this species is a light brown, approaching a fawn color. The palpi, however, are of a dark brown.F. w.—Wing stretch 1¾ in. There are five distinct, dark brown,transverse bands, all commencing on the costa. The first two basal and rather close to each other; the inner of the two somewhat broken. The third very heavy. The fourth is much narrower than the third, and commences on the costa at about one-tenth of an inch from the third, curving until it touches it at about mid-wing, thence running nearly confluent with it to inner margin. The fifth band is not quite so heavy as the third, and is broken at about the third nervule. All the bands curve towards the base, but are not quite parallel. The space between the fifth band and outer margin is thickly .covered with scales of the same dark brown as the bands. Outer margin slightly notched, with a row of dark brown lunar marks. All the bands, except one and two, are extended across the hind wings.
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON DERMESTES
Authors: Heustis Caroline E. 
Published: February 2010

Having read in the Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario for 1877 an article by Prof. J. T. Bell, of London, Ont., entitled “How to Destroy Cabinet Pests,” I thought it might not be unprofitable to
record my own observations on Dermestes.Early in the summer of 1876 I captured four beetles, three males and one female, and placed them in a glass jar with a piece of the meat on which I found them feeding. I observed the female deposit a number of eggs on the meat, but before any were hatched I left home, and was absent about five weeks. On my return I found a large and flourishing colony of larvæ, most of them full grown.
MAMMALS ATTRACTED BY SUGAR
Authors: Bailey James S. 
Published: February 2010

It has not been supposed that animal life would be attracted by sugar, but while sugaring for Lepidoptera the contrary has been proven. On a number of occasions we have taken deer mice while in the act of feeding on sugar, and more recently we have taken a flying squirrel while lapping the sweet on a sugared patch.Not long since, in making our rounds while sugaring, we discovered a skunk endeavoring to taste the sugaring, and so intent was he that our approach was unobserved uutil a piece of dead wood was hurled at him, when he reluctantly left.
ON MERMIS, A PARASITE OF THE LARVA OF CARPOCAPSA POMONELLA
Authors: Hagen H. 
Published: February 2010

The interesting paper by Mr. J. A. Lintner, Entom. Contributions, No. iv., induces me to give some extracts from the papers by Prof. von Siebold, which the author could not compare himself, the more as they answer some important questions.“I examined with much interest, in the Museum in Breslau, Prussia, the specimens of hair worms communicated by different persons. Those worms were found living in the heart of the apple some years ago, very frequently in Silesia (by F. S. Leuckart, Zoolog. Bruchstuecke, Heft I., 1820, p. 5). Four of them belong to Mermis acuminata, and others also to Mermis; also a specimen in Prof. Otto's collection. The Filaria found in an apple by Prof. Waga will probably also be a Mermis (Revue Zool.,1844, P. 366).”
A NEW SPECIES OF PHIGALIA
Authors: French G. H. 
Published: February 2010

Phigalia cinctaria, n. sp.Wingless female.—Length .75 of an inch; exserted oviduct, .25 more. Color light gray with a very slight olive tint, and irregularly mottled all over with black; the spots large above, but smaller on the sides and beneath; the thorax nearly uniform black; the divisions between the segmentspea green while alive, but turning darker in drying. Head grayish b1ack, the clypeus black; antennae black, annulated with gray, reaching to about the middle of the body, when turned back. Hind wings reaching to the back part of the first abdominal segment, the forewings reaching to the middle of the same segment. Feet and legs grayish black, annulated with gray. The oviduct with two joints exserted, the last third of the outer joint hairy, the hairs perpendicular to the joint. Head short, scarcely to be seen from above, rather wide between the eyes; palpi short. From a single ♀.
NOTE ON THE STRUCTURE OF NEPHOPTERYX ZIMMERMANI
Authors: Grote A. R. 
Published: February 2010

The following note on the structure of Zimmermani is taken from a MS. paper on the N. Am. Phycidæ which I am preparing for publication. I would be glad of more material in this group from any correspondents.“Pinipestis (sub-gen. nov.).Maxillary palpi alike in both sexes, concealed by the porrect labial palpi, which have the third article erect and exceed the front. Ocelli present. Male antennæ very slightly bent at base, where they show slight continuous scale-tufts ; ciliate beneath. Fore wings with veins 4 and 5 running close together at base; these veins are seen to have a separate origin, 5 on the cross-vein close to 4, divaricating at one-third from base. Hind wings 8-veined ; vein 5 running close to 4 at base, but separate and continuous with the discal cross-vein. Head behind with a thick transverse ridge of scales; clypeus with a bunchlike projection of scales centrally.”
NOTES ON SEVERAL SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HABITS, ETC
Authors: Dury Charles 
Published: February 2010

This pretty and interesting species, described by Mr. G. R. Crotch from a single specimen in the collection of Prof. Ulke, of Washington, D. C., who received it from Kentucky ten years ago, has remained unique in his collection until I found it, together with its larvæ and pupa.Its food is fungus ( Polypora) growing on logs. Its full-fed larvæ are 7/8 inch 1ong, rather slender, of light color, with the head brown; it eats out a cavity in the fungus, and there transforms to a pupa, which is of a pale flesh color.
NEW PYRALIDES
Authors: Grote A. R. 
Published: February 2010

I am indebted to Mr. Jas. Behrens for some Californian Pyralides. Among them is a specimen of Orobaena octonalis of Zeller, hitherto found in Texas and Kansas. The specimen is labelled “San Diego, Aug., 1874.” Two specimens of Eurycreon chortalis: ”Soda Sp.,” and two of Botis unifascialis: “Sauzalito, May 27,” are also present.In the present paper I continue my descriptions and corrections. There are yet a large nnmber of new species of Botis; I regret that I cannot identify many of Lederer's from his figures and descriptions.
NEW N. AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA, WITH NOTES ON A FEW LITTLE KNOWN
Authors: Grote A. R. 
Published: February 2010

Sphinx catalpae Boisd., pl. 2, figs. 1, 2 (1874).This species is represented in the Collection of Mr. E. L. Graef by an example from Florida. It is smaller and darker than D. undulosa or D. Hageni, of a uniform butternut or olive brown tint.Emydia ampla, n. s.♀. Wings large, body linear, slight. Eyes naked ; palpi exceeding the front ; maxillæ weak.
NORTHERN OCCURRENCES OF PAPILIO CRESPHONTES
Authors: Bean Thos. E. 
Published: February 2010

The American Naturalist for November, 1877, contains on p. 688 the following paragraph:–“Papilio Cresphontes in New England.–On the 6th of last September Mr. N. Coleman captured in the vicinity of Berlin, Connecticut, the only specimen of this Southern insect ever recorded from New England. As the larva is not known to feed on any other plant than the orange, the butterfly probably hatched from a larva accidentally transported with trees from Florida, or emerged from a chrysalis sent North as a curiosity.”The writer of the paragraph appears to have mislaid certain pages of recent Entomological literature.
NOTES ON ARGYNNIS ALCESTIS EDW
Authors: Worthington C. E. 
Published: February 2010

The occurrence of this species in considerable numbers in this vicinity has afforded an opportunity for comparison with A. aphrodite, the results of which are appended.It should be stated that although the number referred to is small, yet the unrecorded comparison of over two hundred examples of both species during the past summer has agreed fully with this. In the line before me are five females each of alcestis and aphrodite. In every case the general color of the upper surface is duller in aphrodite, the basal shading heavier and more extensive, and the black markings on primaries heavier; in two examples the color approaches that of A. cybele, while the examples of alcestis exhibit a uniform clear color with hardly any variation.
TINEINA
Authors: Chambers V. T. 
Published: February 2010

G. thoracefasciella Cham.Sometimes the thorax is ochreous with a transverse brown band between the wings, instead of brown with an ochrey band, and the wings are blotched irregularly with ochreous. The proportion of the two colors varies.G. ochrestrigella Cham.In one specimen sent to me by Mr. Behrens the entire space from the end of the cell to the apex. between two of the discal branch veins, is brown.
THE BEATING NET
Authors: Bailey James S. 
Published: February 2010

The uses of the beating net are obvious and can at once be appreciated in the collecting of Coleoptera and larvæ. A convenient and simple form is here presented, with directions for its construction.This particular form of net was invented and presented to me by my friend, Mr. T. B. Ashton, of Tonganoxie, Kansas, who has not only distinguished himself as a Coleopterist, but has shown hirnself to be an excellent mechanic.By grasping the net with the left hand, as shown in fig. 2, thrusting it under a shrub, and giving the bush a quick shake, or blow with a walking-stick, every living thing upon it wil1 instantly fall upon the apron of the net. If Coleoptera, they can be secured with the fingers or a small net held in the other hand for that purpose. If caterpillars, they can be gently rolled into a receptacle prepared for them.
NOTES UPON GRAPTAS COMMA AND INTERROGATIONIS
Authors: Edwards W. H. 
Published: February 2010

Comma; dimorphic forms Harrish and Dryas, both figured in But. N. A., Vol. 1.In Can. Ent., v., 184, Oct., 1873, I gave the result of breeding this species from eggs laid by the form dryas, viz., 6 dryas, but many more of Harrisii, establishing the dimorphism, Since that time I have raised several broods from the egg, and both before and after 1873 recorded in my journal the history of several lots of larvæ found by me. I have therefore some material for illustrating the peculiarities of the species. At Coalburgh there are three broods annually, and the butterflies of the third brood hybernate. The hybernating females deposit their eggs last of April or early in May, and the first brood of the butterflies emerges from chrysalis about 1st June; but should the weather be cold during May, then from the middle to last of June.
TORTRICIDÆ
Authors: Fernald C. H. 
Published: February 2010

The present is the first of a series of papers on the Tortricidæ of North America which the writer hopes to be able to prepare from the material now in hand, and collections that may be made hereafter by Entomologists in various parts of the country.I was first led to the study of the Tortricidæ by the advice of Mr. A.R. Grote, who, with a generosity rarely met, placed his entire collection of Tortricids in my hands to work up, and further gave me his collection of European Tortricidæ for comparison, and loaned me his types for study. I fear I may never be able to make anything like an adequate return to this gentleman who has placed me under so great obligations.
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ANISOTA
Authors: Lintner J. A. 
Published: February 2010

Anisota bisecta, nov. sp.♀. Head sunken ; head and collar tawny. Antennæ short, simple, the joints showing as distinct rings. Thorax robust, globose, elevated in front, and projected over the head more than in A. bicolor or in A. Heiligbrodti. Shoulder-covers narrowly bordered above with brown. Abdomen short, not extending beyond the hind wings, concolorous with them.
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA
Authors: Chambers V. T. 
Published: February 2010

G. fasciella Cham.G. 5-notella Cham.With ten specimens of fasciella and two of 5-notella before me, with scarcely a trace of variation in the ten, but with the two differing from each other somewhat and both differing very decidedly from the ten, I had no doubt as to the distinctness of the two species.
NOTES UPON THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF CERTAIN SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES. NO. 2.
Authors: Edwards W. H. 
Published: February 2010

4. Melitæ Minuta Edw.—Figured in Mead's Report on Butterflies of Colorado. Syn. Arachne Edw.Chrysalis.–Length .54 inch ; cylindrical; head case short, narrow, rounded at vertices, the sides sloping; mesonotum rounded, not prominent, followed by a shallow depression; the abdomen large, and offering several rows of short conical tubercles; color yellow-white or buff, marked with black; top of head case black, the antennæ cases same; mesonotum with two crescent spots on each side; on the wing case a central patch and dark border ; the segments of abdomen edged with black on dorsal side; a ventral longitudinal stripe and one on either side; the tubercles black at summit, orange at base.
TORTRICIDÆ
Authors: Fernald C. H. 
Published: February 2010

Tortrix (Loxotaenia) Clemensiana, n. s.Head and thorax above ochre yellow; palpi darker on the outside, lighter beneath ; antennæ dark ochre yellow, minutely pubescent in the male ; legs straw yellow, in some specimens the fore and middle legs are fuscons in front ; thorax beneath and abdomen above and beneath silvery fuscous, in some specimens very light straw color ; anal tuft light straw color.
NOTES ON NOCTUIDÆ
Authors: Grote A. R. 
Published: February 2010

Hadena passer.Mamestra passer Guen., Noct. I, 195.Luceria loculata Morr., B. B. S. N. S., 2, 110.I have received from M. Achille Gueneé an outline drawing of his Mamestra passer, and with the help of his description am enabled to make the above identification. The black marks tying the reniform to the t. p. line are variable, sometimes wanting; the color varies from pale reddish brown to dark brown ; the claviform is thick and usually solid, but sometimes open ; the lines are usually effaced, but sometimes quite noticeable ; the ornamentation is exceedingly simple. The eyes are naked, so that, with several other species referred by Gueneé to Mamestra, as I have previously shown, this form should be placed in Hadena.