Purpose Evaluate and compare the retinal microvasculature in the superficial capillary plexus
(SCP) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and cognitively intact …

This article analyzes the concepts of politeness that are manifest in Japanese business
etiquette training in relation to the politeness theories of Brown and Levinson (1987) and Ide (…

We conducted a randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled tolerability study of a N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate
(NMDA) glutamate receptor ion‐channel blocker, remacemide hydrochloride…

Traditional analyses describe Japanese honorific use as determined by situational factors.
By contrast, this article takes an agent‐centered approach to demonstrate how Japanese …

This article surveys literature on personal narratives as situated practices in a variety of
contexts in primarily Western, postindustrial societies. It begins with an overview of theories that …

This study was designed to provide a prevalence rate of childhood abuse in patients being
treated for alcohol and other drug problems, and to compare the extent of trauma symptoms …

This article uses metaphor analysis to delineate the cultural model of marriage expressed in
speeches at Japanese wedding receptions. Wedding speakers used three main metaphors …

Objective Traditional medicolegal data analysis focuses on physician care, without a full
acknowledgment of the effects of team, organizational, and system factors. We developed a …

This article brings together research on genre and the self to investigate personal narrative
as a “technology of the self” ( F oucault ) in the context of a Japanese public speaking course. …

The authors provide an overview of 21 articles from several countries focusing on families
with deaf members published in the literary issues of the American Annals of the Deaf from …