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Children’s Participation: Questioning Competence and Competencies? [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2017
While Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child has encouraged children’s participation in collective decision-making, the literature is replete with the challenges as well as successes of such participation. One challenge is adults’ perceptions of children’s competence and competencies. These are frequently used as threshold criteria, so
Le borgne, Carine, Tisdall, E Kay M
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Designing Transnational Hydroclimatological Observation Networks and Data Sharing Policies in West Africa

open access: yesData Science Journal, 2019
Surface observations provide ground evidence of climate change to support the scientific guidance paving the way to better adaptation and mitigation actions.
Seyni Salack   +33 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the link between eating disorders and persistent genital arousal disorder/genito-pelvic dysesthesia: first description and a systematic review of the literature

open access: yesJournal of Eating Disorders, 2022
Plain English summary Persistent genital arousal disorder/genito-pelvic dysesthesia (PGAD/GPD) is characterized by recurrent physiological genital arousal without corresponding psychological arousal.
Hartmut Imgart   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lubricating Oil Consumption Measurement on Large Gas Engines

open access: yesLubricants, 2022
Increasing the reliability of combustion engines while further reducing emissions and life cycle costs are the main drivers for optimizing lubricating oil consumption (LOC). However, in order to reduce the lube oil consumption of an engine, it is crucial
Bernhard Rossegger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adapting to online teaching during COVID-19 school closure: teacher education and teacher competence effects among early career teachers in Germany

open access: yes, 2020
As in many countries worldwide, as part of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown schools in Germany closed in March 2020 and only partially re-opened in May. Teachers were confronted with the need to adapt to online teaching.
J. König   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Microcalorimetric study of the growth of Streptococcus thermophilus in renneted milk

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2015
The growth of Streptococcus thermophilus ST12 (ST12) in liquid milk, reconstituted from low-heat skim milk powder (RSM) and in RSM with rennet addition (r-RSM) at 40°C was monitored by microcalorimetry.
Irina eStulova   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Religious competence as cultural competence [PDF]

open access: yesTranscultural Psychiatry, 2012
Definitions of cultural competence often refer to the need to be aware and attentive to the religious and spiritual needs and orientations of patients. However, the institution of psychiatry maintains an ambivalent attitude to the incorporation of religion and spirituality into psychiatric practice.
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Asymmetric chiral and antichiral mechanical metamaterials with tunable Poisson’s ratio

open access: yesAPL Materials, 2022
Mechanical metamaterials with zero or negative Poisson’s ratio were subject to increasing research interest over the last few years. Their energy absorption capabilities make them suitable for impact and dampening applications, such as personal ...
Mathias Fleisch   +6 more
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Competence-based Curriculum Learning for Neural Machine Translation [PDF]

open access: yesNorth American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
Current state-of-the-art NMT systems use large neural networks that are not only slow to train, but also often require many heuristics and optimization tricks, such as specialized learning rate schedules and large batch sizes.
Emmanouil Antonios Platanios   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Linguistic competence, Communicative Competence and Interactional Competence

open access: yesINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY, 2019
Linguistic competence, communicative competence, and interactional competence have had profound impact on second language teaching, learning, and testing. Although a significant number of studies have been conducted on these three competences, they have not been conflated for discussion in a single study.
Nishad Chathamkulam Abdulrahman   +1 more
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