Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape
ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
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A Medical Arabic Course for Healthcare Professionals. [PDF]
Fleifil S +10 more
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The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East
ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
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Number comparison in bilinguals is not affected by their second language. [PDF]
Göbel SM +3 more
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Abstract Measurement of interactional competence (IC) has attracted increasing interest in language assessment research. One key question is whether proficiency sufficiently accounts for IC, making separate IC assessment unnecessary. This study examines the IC–proficiency relationship using a test that assesses Chinese speakers’ ability to manage ...
David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever
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'A labyrinth with no way out'-the conceptualization of mental distress among Arabic-speaking refugee youth: a qualitative study. [PDF]
Demetry Y +5 more
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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency
Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes +3 more
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Co-Designing a Peer Navigator Role to Improve Equity in Healthcare Access for Pacific Islander, Māori and Arabic Communities in Australia. [PDF]
Shwaita L +9 more
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How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels
Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
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Sustained Autism Outcomes Eight Years After Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention in a Conflict-Affected Low-Resource Setting: A Longitudinal Follow-Up Study. [PDF]
Mounzer W.
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