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The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world
Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
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The Academic Literacy of International Postgraduate Students in Australia: A Cause for Concern?
ABSTRACT This article discusses the academic literacy challenges faced by international postgraduate students at a South Australian university and evaluates the effectiveness of existing institutional support mechanisms. Drawing on survey data, the study highlights significant difficulties in academic reading, writing, and spoken communication, with ...
Werner Botha +6 more
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利用脱体涡模拟的方法,研究了高速列车受电弓在正反受流条件下不同的升、阻力特性。经过对受电弓正反受流气动特性的对比,可以得出正反受流对于受电弓的气动特性有重要影响,尤其对升力波动的影响明显 ...
杨国伟, 姚远, 郭迪龙, 姚拴宝
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ABSTRACT Collaborative writing has attracted increasing attention in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction due to its potential to enhance learners’ writing competence. However, few studies have examined the comparative effects of collaborative versus independent writing on EFL learners’ individual performance, especially in higher‐order ...
Ting Huang, Chenze Wu, Wenkang Zhang
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ABSTRACT Many existing rubrics for L2 argumentative writing prioritize form‐based linguistic accuracy and complexity while insufficiently addressing substantive argumentative rigor and effectiveness. This limitation is further complicated by cross‐cultural variation in rhetorical conventions and educational practices, which challenge the direct ...
Zihan Xu, Peiyun Liu
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ABSTRACT This article examines the language life of young Malaysian Chinese immigrants in Australia and their construction of multi‐membership as reflected in their daily language behaviors. It develops the concept of everyday linguistic citizenship and uses this concept as a theoretical lens to understand how the young adults build, maintain, and ...
Xiaoyi Zhang +2 more
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Vocabulary Strategy Instruction in the Argentine EFL Context: Teachers’ Perspectives and Practices
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on vocabulary strategy instruction (VSI), little has been known about teachers’ perspectives on how it is understood and implemented in practice. This study investigated Argentinian EFL teachers’ priorities in vocabulary instruction, their perceived knowledge of learner strategies for spoken vocabulary, and factors ...
Isobel Kai‐Hui Wang, Andrew D. Cohen
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L2 Chinese Grammatical Acquisition and Processing: A Substantive and Methodological Review
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 92 empirical studies on Chinese as a second language (CSL) in grammatical processing and development, synthesizing their substantive foci and methodological characteristics. The results reveal consistent scholarly attention to cross‐linguistic topics, with less focus on features that are distinctively
Shaohua Fang, Yi Xu, Jiani He, Jia Wang
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当研究室では、貧血の病態の1つとして知られているエリスロポエチン(erythropoietin ; EPO)低反応性に関与する可能性のある新規因子として、貧血患者の血清中に内因性の抗EPO受容体抗体を同定した。また、前年度までの臨床的検討から、ELISA法による抗EPO受容体抗体の吸光度の大きさと患者骨髄中の赤芽球や網赤血球数と相関を認めたことより、同抗体が貧血の病態形成に関与することが示唆された。そこで今年度は、抗EPO受容体抗体の生物学的特性を明らかにする目的で、さらなる生化学的検討に取り組んだ ...
原, 章規, 70507045, 461
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Finetuning Pre‐Trained Language Models for Automatic Assessment of English‐Chinese Interpreting
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen growing interest in leveraging pre‐trained language models (PLMs) for automatic assessment of spoken‐language performance. Contributing to this emerging line of work, the present study offers the first attempt to finetune two PLMs, GTE‐multilingual and mmBERT, for assessing English‐Chinese interpreting, using over 1700 ...
Zhaokun Jiang, Chao Han
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