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Prospective sampling bias in COVID-19 recruitment methods: experimental evidence from a national randomized survey testing recruitment materials

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022
Background In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, social science research has required recruiting many prospective participants. Many researchers have explicitly taken advantage of widespread public interest in COVID-19 to advertise their studies ...
Eric B. Kennedy   +4 more
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Demonstratives in discourse

open access: yes, 2020
This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also ...
Næss, Åshild   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Tunisia in the Aftermath of the Revolution

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2013
In this study, humor and the confused feelings of overwhelming happiness, fear, and uncertainty intertwine to reflect Tunisians’ attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and experiences in the aftermath of the revolution.
Asma Moalla
doaj   +1 more source

“I am Guarding it from Mess and Measure”: Poetics of Order/Disorder in Frank O’Hara’s “Urban Pastoral”

open access: yesIAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2019
Postwar America gave rise to multiple literary traditions, often referred to as the era’s counterpoetics in the sense that they veered from the Eliotic dictum of impersonality, in particular, and from the rigid academic verse of New Criticism, in general.
Ikram Hili
doaj   +1 more source

The Position and Role of Purification in Educational Discourses (Happiness Discourse, Health Discourse, Austerity Discourse and Quranic Discourse) [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Issues in Quarterly Journal of Islamic Education, 2018
The present research sought to investigate the role and position of purification in educational discourses, namely, happiness, health and austerity discourse in comparison to Quranic discourse. The research method is qualitative focusing on inferential-analytic and comparative-analytic methodology.
openaire   +3 more sources

Moving in the Dark: Enlightening the Spatial Population Ecology of European Cave Salamanders

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
We assessed individual interactions, movement ecology and activity patterns of a subterranean population of Speleomantes strinatii, applying spatial capture–recapture modeling to a photographic dataset of 104 individuals. ABSTRACT Space use and movement are fundamental aspects of organisms' ecology, mirroring individual fitness, behavior, and life ...
Giacomo Rosa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Strategies of Second Language Vocabulary Inferencing: An Eye Tracking Study

open access: yesEducation Sciences
In contextual vocabulary acquisition, second language learners address both morphological and contextual cues to infer the meanings of novel words. The study investigated cognitive strategies and their eye movement correlates in contextual vocabulary ...
Anna Izmalkova, Irina Blinnikova
doaj   +1 more source

Advanced NLP Procedures as Premises for the Reconstruction of the Idea of Knowledge

open access: yesProceedings, 2022
This paper evaluates artificial texts produced by the GPT 2 and GPT 3 language models and proposes to use hermeneutic tools for their analysis, putting them on an equal footing with man-made texts.
Rafal Maciag
doaj   +1 more source

Infection Models for Pine Wilt Disease on the Basis of Vector Behaviors

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
Infection models for pine wilt disease without vector density were built to estimate the transmission coefficient of the pathogenic nematode. The models successfully simulated the annual change in the density of infected trees for four pine stands. ABSTRACT Pine wilt disease is caused by the pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Steiner et ...
Katsumi Togashi
wiley   +1 more source

The Transformation from Leader to Intrapreneur: Exploratory Study for the Theoretical Bridge between Leadership and Entrepreneurship

open access: yesAAOS Transactions
In existing firms, the transformation from a leader of an established company to an intrapreneur takes place in the development of new ventures. To explain this management phenomenon, it is necessary to construct a theoretical model that bridges ...
Haruomi SHINDO, Yasushi FUKUHARA
doaj   +1 more source

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