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Establishing an assay to evaluate d‐amino acid oxidase enzyme kinetics and inhibition using WST‐8 redox dye

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study investigated a novel WST‐8‐based assay for evaluating d‐Amino acid oxidase (DAO) inhibitors. We confirmed its effectiveness using known inhibitors and found that uremic toxins possess relatively weak inhibitory activity compared to existing drugs.
Kahoko Miyake, Yuki Enoki, Yuka Nakazawa, Kazuaki Taguchi, Kazuaki Matsumoto   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A systematic review of the use of WeChat in teaching Chinese as a foreign language

Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Over the years, social media have gained popularity as tools for language teaching. The social media platform WeChat has been employed for teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL).
Liu Weiming
doaj   +1 more source

Intra-Acting Assemblages: New Materialist Exploration of a Family Artifact and Belonging in Finnish Canadian Migration

Nordic Journal of Migration Research
This new materialist study explores the entanglement between material culture and transnational belonging and investigates the ways an artifact—an inherited vintage coffee creamer—represents transnational migration trajectories and belonging within one ...
Anu Muhonen, Heidi Vaarala
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Fostering autonomy in intercultural language learning in the foreign language classroom: A case study of international students learning English at a higher education institution in Ireland [PDF]

, 2012
This study is concerned with the concept of autonomy in intercultural language learning, understood here as the capacity to take responsibility for one’s own language and intercultural development.
Sudhershan, Aleksandra
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Proteasomal degradation of intracellularly expressed Amblyomin‐X limits suicide gene therapy potential in melanoma cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study explores the feasibility of expressing the antitumoral protein Amblyomin‐X through a suicide gene therapy approach and investigates its intracellular fate after gene delivery. Although the gene is efficiently expressed, melanoma cells rapidly degrade the Amblyomin‐X protein via proteasome activity.
Victor Dal Posolo Cinel, Carlos DeOcesano Pereira, Aline Ramos Maia Lobba, Melissa Regina Fessel, Ana Marisa Chudzinski‐Tavassi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: Kalaja, P., F. Barcelos, A. M., Aro, M., & Ruohotie-Lyhty, M. (2016). Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching.

, 2016
This publication is comprised of seven empirical studies on beliefs, agency and identity as a response to the need for contextual, longitudinal and interconnected studies in foreign language learning and teaching. The underpinning argument of the book is
Pappa, Sotiria
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(Im)mobility, literacies and second language education for adults and adolescents with limited previous education

This special issue draws attention to literacy and basic literacy education for adult and adolescent migrants with limited or no previous school background, who are learning a second language.
Annika, Rosén, Jenny,, Wedin, Åsa,, Norlund Shaswar, Annika,, Norlund Shaswar, Annika, Rosén, Jenny, Ljung Egeland, Birgitta, Ljung Egeland, Birgitta,, Wedin, Åsa   +8 more
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Developing picture communication for interactional situations at the beginning of the asylum process; mapping interactional practices

, 2019
The paper reports the initial findings of the first phase of the research and development project PICCORE – Picture Communication in Reception Centres. The goal was to map the use of pictures and other visual modes of communication at reception centres ...
Tapio, Elina
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Rapid screening of staphylokinase protein variants using an unpurified cell‐free expression system

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
An unpurified cell‐free protein synthesis (CFPS) platform enables rapid functional screening of staphylokinase variants. Direct plasminogen‐activation assays performed in microplate format provide real‐time activity readouts, allowing rapid identification and ranking of variants with improved or reduced fibrinolytic activity without protein ...
Maria Tomková, Veronika Hovanová, Jiri Damborsky, Erik Sedlák   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migrant family language practices and language policies in Finland

, 2011
This article investigates the language practices and language policies of an Indian migrant family in their daily life in Finland. The purpose of this paper is to consider the potential of an empirical case study on migration to understand the ...
Haque, Shahzaman, Shahzaman, Haque
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