Researchers found that state and federal public health agencies downplay risks associated with compounds like the ones contaminating the Cape Fear River and wells around a Bladen County chemical plant ...

Many of these tips and tricks boil down to one overarching theme — stop using so much “weak language” and talk more like a hard-charging dude. Saying “Do you think?” and “maybe” makes you sound weak, ...

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Swearing was long dismissed as a topic of serious research because it was assumed to be simply a sign of aggression, weak language proficiency or even low intelligence. We now have quite a lot of ...

The simple view of reading (SVR) model proposes that reading comprehension is the product of cognitive domain skills, word decoding, and oral language (linguistic) comprehension, and that decoding and ...