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The effects of high versus low talker variability and individual aptitude on phonetic training of Mandarin lexical tones

open access: yesPeerJ, 2018
High variability (HV) training has been found to be more effective than low variability (LV) training when learning various non-native phonetic contrasts. However, little research has considered whether this applies to the learning of tone contrasts. The
Hanyu Dong   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

Dominio motor y destreza: La verdadera esencia del cirujano Hand dominance and dexterity: The true essence of a surgery

open access: yesRevista Colombiana de Cirugía, 2004
El cirujano —el buen cirujano— es a la vez artista, artesano, tecnócrata y científico. Para llegar a ser buen cirujano, todos los que desde los inicios de la carrera de medicina tenemos este sueño, sabemos que se requieren unas cualidades ...
Ramiro Alberto Pestana-Tirado   +2 more
doaj  

Autoconsciência em estudantes talentosos: um estudo fenomenológico-semiótico

open access: yesPsicologia Escolar e Educacional
Resumo O presente estudo teve como objetivo descrever como os estudantes talentosos percebem seu talento, com foco nos modos reflexivos que caracterizam sua autoconsciência.
Taísa Candido de Batista   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

No other choice: The fracturing of reflexivity in families' pathways into (non‐)elective home education in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reaction Time Predicts Brain–Computer Interface Aptitude

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 2018
There is evidence that 15–30% of the general population cannot effectively operate brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). Thus the BCI performance predictors are critically required to pre-screen participants.
Sam Darvishi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bricks, knots, and bodies: Material encounters and the affective making of masculinity

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how creative research methods do not just capture boys' experiences of masculinity, but actively materialise them. Drawing on two arts‐based activities used in school‐based fieldwork (a mannequin‐based exercise with one participant and a Lego‐building workshop with a small peer group), the paper analyses how materials ...
Huw Berry‐Downs
wiley   +1 more source

Biological characteristics that influence the SEUROP system classification for Czech fleckvieh and Holstein bull carcasses

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2006
The aim of this work was to analyse the influence of certain characteristics (aptitude, age, carcass weight, net daily gain, feeding) on the final carcass classification in the SEUROP system. 703 Czech Fleckvieh bulls and 642 Holstein bulls were studied.
Radek Filipčík   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organising for Circularity: An Empirical Analysis of Project Organising and the Development of Circular Economy Firm Capabilities

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms pursue the circular economy (CE) by using projects as organisational forms. However, the transformative role of project organising (PO) in developing circular firm capabilities (FC) remains underexplored. In this study, we examine the effects of PO on the development of critical circular FC in CE‐based firms. We draw on primary data from
Ambisisi Ambituuni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inteligencia emocional de los directivos de la Universidad de Matanzas Camilo Cienfuegos Emotional intelligence of the executives of the Matanzas University Camilo Cienfuegos

open access: yesRevista Médica Electrónica, 2012
Para la realización de este trabajo se tuvo en cuenta la importancia que reporta la temática inteligencia emocional, la cual ha sido abordada por otros autores tanto en el ámbito nacional como internacional. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo-transversal,
Zoraida Quintana Quevedo   +2 more
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