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An Exploratory Study into the Accessibility of a Multi-User Virtual World for Young People with Aphasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper describes an exploratory study into the accessibility of the virtual world Second Life for two young people with aphasia. Aphasia is a communicative disorder most commonly caused by a stroke.
Galliers, J. R., Wilson, S.
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Diels‐Alder Click Chemistry as a Dynamic‐Covalent Crosslinking Method in Spheroid‐Encapsulating Hydrogels for Cartilage Engineering

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This research shows the development of hydrogels with Diels‐Alder click chemistry for engineering cartilage‐like tissue. The hydrogels support cartilage spheroids which could be cultured for at least 28 days. Furthermore, the spheroids showed a tendency to fuse together into a more consistent construct, and produced important components needed for ...
Sanne M. van de Looij   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking young children creating and communicating : research briefing 3 for digital childhoods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This briefing paper specifically considers children’s early communicative and creative experiences with digital technologies, addressing the following questions: »» What are children learning about the roles digital technologies play in supporting ...
Mcpake, Joanna
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The translatability of metaphor in LSP: application of a decision-making model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life.
Fuertes Olivera, Pedro Antonio   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embedding academic socialisation within a language support program: An Australian case study

open access: yesInternational Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, 2014
This paper describes discipline-specific transition support utilised to follow-up the Post-Entry Language Assessment (PELA) recently introduced at Edith Cowan University as one strategy to address declining rates of English language proficiency ...
Shelley Beatty   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conventions and mutual expectations — understanding sources for web genres [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Genres can be understood in many different ways. They are often perceived as a primarily sociological construction, or, alternatively, as a stylostatistically observable objective characteristic of texts.
Karlgren, Jussi
core   +1 more source

Bacteria‐Responsive Nanostructured Drug Delivery Systems for Targeted Antimicrobial Therapy

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bacteria‐responsive nanocarriers are designed to release antimicrobials only in the presence of infection‐specific cues. This selective activation ensures drug release precisely at the site of infection, avoiding premature or indiscriminate release, and enhancing efficacy.
Guillermo Landa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Axiological Foundations for Legal Discourse: Axioms of Law

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2017
The article is devoted to the axioms of law as a value-regulatory foundations for legal discourse, explaining the choice of actions and directing the development of the communicative events in the institutional environment.
I. V. Palashevskaya
doaj   +1 more source

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