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Unpacking the Antecedents of Boredom and Its Impact on University Learners’ Engagement in Languages Other Than English: A Qualitative Study in the Distance Online Learning Context

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1121-1133, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Although psychological factors such as emotion and engagement have gained increasing attention for their role in language learning success, a substantial gap remains in understanding the sources of boredom and its impact on learners’ engagement, whether behavioural, affective or cognitive, in languages other than English (LOTE).
Xian Zhao, Danping Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Ritmos de resistencia en la ficción de Anacristina Rossi

Letras, 2013
Se analizan las relaciones de sentido, incluidos los componentes simbólicos, entre algunas de las manifestaciones de la música afroamericana y afrocaribeñas (el blues y el reggae) y dos novelas de la escritora costarricense Anacristina Rossi. Se describe
Linda J. Craft
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Report of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) on the effects of climate change on the risk of transmission of foodborne pathogens

Food Risk Assess Europe, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2025.
Abstract The Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) has carried out an updated review of the scientific evidence on the influence of climate change on the transmission of foodborne pathogens. This global phenomenon represents an emerging threat to food safety and public health, since alterations in weather ...
Antonio Valero Díaz, Rosa María Capita González, Baltasar Mayo Pérez, Azucena del Carmen Mora Gutiérrez, María Dolores Rodrigo Aliaga, Gloria Sánchez Moragas, Paula Arrabal Durán   +6 more
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Entre Venus y Marte: el viaje del héroe en Desertor (Between Venus and Mars: The Journey of the Hero in Desertor)

Letras, 2015
En este artículo se estudia la figura del héroe en la novela Desertor, del costarricense Juan Ramón Rojas. Este relato tiene su ambiente en El Salvador y analiza algunos de los principales hechos históricos de la década de 1980.
Grethel Ramírez Villalobos
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A History of Nonviolence: Insecurity and the Normative Power of the Imagined in Costa Rica [PDF]

Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica. These three issues play a central role in the media, politics, and everyday life, and the impression has emerged that security has changed for the ...
Sebastian Huhn
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Justice, community and rememory: opening spaces to (R)econoce(R) en colectiva with texts

Literacy, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 219-228, May 2025.
Abstract Drawing from rememory and decolonial theory, this collaborative piece illustrates how three Puerto Rican educators and researchers partnered with a Puerto Rican scholar, activist and children's book author to engage in inquiry cycles. These inquiry cycles centred our general experiences with children's literature and the author's work.
Astrid N. Sambolín Morales, Francisco L. Torres, Carmen L. Medina, Raquel M. Ortiz   +3 more
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Defining ecotourism for mainstream application and to support sustainable tourism governance

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 2, April–June 2025.
This study explores how eco‐tourism is understood and defined by tourism and environmental professionals in Ireland. Through thematic analysis of stakeholder interviews, we reveal the need for clear, sustainability‐oriented definitions to distinguish eco‐tourism from nature‐based tourism.
Andrew Torsney, Patrick O'Driscoll, Yvonne M. Buckley   +2 more
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Institutional Change, Obsolescing Legitimacy, and Multinational Corporations: The Case of the Central American Banana Industry [PDF]

This paper studies the practice of integration of influential host country actors to a multinational corporation as a strategy to decrease problems of legitimacy to the foreign firm before the host country's society.
Bucheli, Marcelo, Kim, Min-Young
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The association between family and community social capital and health risk behaviours in young people: an integrative review [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Health risk behaviours known to result in poorer outcomes in adulthood are generally established in late childhood and adolescence. These ‘risky’ behaviours include smoking, alcohol and illicit drug use and sexual risk taking. While the role
A Erulkar, A James, A Morgan, A Morgan, A Morgan, A Morgan, A Portes, A Springer, A Vieno, A Zambon, AA Parkes, AE Evans, AHJ Summach, AJ Ramirez, Antony Morgan, BM Reininger, C Currie, C Jackson, C Smith, CW Warren, D Evans, D Kerrigan, D Moher, D Neumark-Sztainer, D Rasic, D Wight, Department for Education, DM Bensyl, E Durkheim, E Sellstrom, EA Borawski, EL Tolma, EL Winstanley, Elizabeth McGee, Francine M Cheater, I Kawachi, J Coleman, J Jager, J Popay, J Vuille, J Wolak, JA Fulkerson, James Egan, Jennifer McLean, JM Mellor, JP Bartkowski, KE McPherson, Kerri E McPherson, KM Ferguson, L Harris, L Ottebjer, L Smylie, LA Atkins, LH Smith, M Takakura, M Wen, M Wen, M Windle, M Yugo, MS Turbin, NB Ellison, P Bourdieu, P Gillies, PL Ellickson, R Putnam, R Seginer, RA Crosby, RD Putnam, RF Oman, RF Oman, RF Oman, S Pelegrina, S von Stumm, SM Dornbusch, Susan Kerr, TL Parcel, TM Eitle, U Bronfenbrenner, V Guilamo-Ramos, V Morrow, V Morrow, V Morrow, V Vyncke, WL Hellerstedt, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization, WW Hartup   +86 more
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The determinants of hotels' marketing managers' green marketing behaviour [PDF]

, 2010
Little is known about the factors underlying the pro-environmental behaviour of marketing managers. This paper explores the determinants of green marketing practices in the Red Sea hotel sector in Egypt.
Aguilera R. V., Banerjee S. B., Batra A., Charter M., Crane A., Font X., Fuller D., Grant J., Hambrick D. C., Kirk D., Mohammed El Dief, Ottman J., Peattie K., Peattie K., Porter M., Pujari D., Shalley C. E., Utting P., Wasik J., Webster K., Welford R., Xavier Font   +21 more
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