Biomedical subjects

P Neil

Publications and source records attributed to P Neil.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

Automaticity, spelling, and second language learning.

This study investigated the relationship between a chronometric estimate of automaticity for the spelling of French words (Automaticity) and performance on four tests of French language attainment among a sample of Year 11 students of French as a foreign language. Fifty participants each completed a computerized test of French spelling and attainment tests in four aspects of French language learning: reading comprehension, writing fluency, oral fluency, and aural comprehension. Correlations were significant between Automaticity and performance on all four tests of French language attainment as well as on overall attainment.

Achievement↗

PubMed1996

Juvenile sexual offending: one-year period prevalence study within Oxfordshire.

An epidemiological survey using a postal questionnaire revealed a 1-year period prevalence rate of 1.5 official juvenile sexual offenders per 1,000 males aged 12-17 within Oxfordshire (.85 per 1,000 12-17 year olds overall). The majority of sexually abusive youth were male, with a family history of neglect, physical, and/or sexual abuse. Behavioral and psychological problems were common.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1991

Pathogenesis of systemic (essential) hypertension in Zimbabwean hypertensive patients. I. Humoral factors.

Twenty-seven male and female black Zimbabweans hypertensive patients were matched by age and sex and compared to 27 normotensive subjects. All subjects were examined after dietary sodium depletion, followed by sodium loading. In addition to renin status and salt-sensitivity, urine aldosterone, renal prostaglandins, plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and plasma endothelin were assessed. The following ethnic characteristics for Zimbabwean essential hypertensive patients were found: increased prevalence of salt-sensitive hypertension (66 pc); hyporesponsive renin-angiotensin system after contraction of circulating plasma volume; higher prevalence of low-renin hypertension (59 pc); suppressed renal prostaglandins, especially in low-renin hypertensives, suggesting suppression or deficit of renal kallikrein-kinin system; increased levels of ANP in low-renin hypertensive patients. Plasma endothelin was comparably increased in both normal- and low-renin hypertensive patients.

Adult↗