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M Aronoff

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PubMed1984

Affective and character pathology of suicidal adolescent and young adult inpatients.

Psychiatric diagnoses and severity of suicide attempts were compared between adolescents (14-19 years) and young adults (20-35 years) with depressed mood hospitalized following a suicide attempt. The depressive disorders manifested by the two age groups, determined by semi-structured interview, were basically the same. The degree of lethality and frequency of suicide attempts were approximately equal in the two groups. Adolescents in this investigation who manifested the same behaviors as older patients were diagnosable by the same criteria.

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PubMed1976

Experience in the application of porcine xenografts to split-graft donor sites.

We have described our experience in the treatment of 336 donor sites with porcine xenografts. We have found this technique simple and quick for achieving rapid healing of these donor areas in burn patients, trauma patients, granulating ulcer patients, patients with carcinoma, patients with crossed-leg flap procedures, and other reconstructive surgery cases, and in practically all of these excellent healing occurred within an average of 12 days. The exceptions have been described. It is the authors' feeling that this modality of donor site care is of the greatest significance and a great advance over previous techniques. It minimizes the previously required care of these donor areas and significantly has reduced the associated pain and distress which skin-graft patients have suffered in the past. In the few instances in which the lyophilized porcine xenograft was used, it was our impression that these grafts did not adhere to the donor site as well and did not have the hemostatic effect of the fresh-refrigerated or fresh-frozen porcine xenografts.

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Using dictionaries to study the mental lexicon.

The notion of a mental lexicon has its historical roots in practical reference dictionaries. The distributional analysis of dictionaries provides one means of investigating the structure of the mental lexicon. We review our earlier work with dictionaries, based on a three-way horserace model of lexical access and production, and then present the most recent results of our ongoing analysis of the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition on CD-ROM, which traces changes in productivity over time of the English suffixes -ment and -ity, both of which originate in French borrowings. Our results lead us to question the validity of automatic analogy from a set of existing words as the driving force behind morphological productivity.

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