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Reading Comprehension in Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: Effects of Easy‐to‐Read Adaptations in Spanish Short Stories

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Reading comprehension in individuals with intellectual disabilities is shaped by linguistic complexity and cognitive processing demands. Easy‐to‐Read (E2R) adaptations aim to reduce these demands, yet empirical evidence on their effects in narrative texts remains limited.
Isam Diab‐Lozano, Mari Carmen Suárez‐Figueroa, Arminda Moreno‐Díaz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AFM‐based nanomechanical mapping and mechanobiology, two unforeseen fields that have lifted each other up

Journal of Microscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract AFM is not for the faint of heart. It has never been for these 40 years since its invention or for any of the modalities that have emerged. And among them, the initial concept of using AFM to measure cell mechanics was simply brazen. On the one hand, those pioneers hacked an imaging tool optimised for minimal mechanical interaction between ...
Núria Gavara
wiley   +1 more source

A Sociology of the Absurd

, 2018
E. Tiryakian
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Global Pesticide Complex: Infrastructure, Fragility and Frontiers of Agrarian Change

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although most pesticides have long been on the market, the political economy surrounding their production, regulation and use has undergone considerable change, spurring renewed interest in the social sciences. The global pesticide complex (GPC) is an analytical device to understand the multidimensional nature of these changes. In this special
Marion Werner, Kees Jansen, Jessie Luna, Nathalie Jas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Satire and Silence Under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
wiley   +1 more source

The Unquiet Man —The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) and the Aesthetics of Marginality

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
Christophe Gelly
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanical ventilation using prime numbers: an exploratory study of numerical preferences and oxygenation. [PDF]

BJA Open
Barends CRM, van Amsterdam K, Eleveld DJ, Vos JJ, Absalom AR.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
wiley   +1 more source

The Aesthetic Form of Perezhivanie: An Ethnographic Study of Becoming an Environmental Scholar-Activist. [PDF]

Hum Arenas
Rezvani S.
europepmc   +1 more source