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Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro, Karen Durrant, William G. Dixon, John McBeth, Alex MacGregor, Max Yates, Jenny H. Humphreys   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

English Medium Instruction Experiences of Lecturers: Evidence from Tertiary Education in Türkiye

Participatory Educational Research
The integration of English into the education domain continues to expand steadily. Language policies in educational institutions are shaped according to the English requirements of respective countries. With the recognition of English as a lingua franca, it has taken on a significant role as the medium of instruction (EMI) in Turkish universities, with
Arzu Ekoç Özçelik, Suzan Kavanoz, Selahattin Yılmaz   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Understanding the Burden of Orofacial Involvement and Patient Treatment Preferences in Systemic Sclerosis: Results From a Large International Survey

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Orofacial manifestations are significantly impactful in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) yet remain understudied, with no dedicated clinical guidelines to inform their management. Methods An international online survey comprised38 questions addressing orofacial manifestations of SSc, including patients’ confidence in their treating ...
Eleni Deligianni, Lee Shapiro, Deana Gibbs, Zsuzsanna H. McMahan, Michael Hughes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the Effectiveness of Writing Center Consultations on L2 Writers’ Essay Writing Skills

Languages, 2018
With the international growth of English-medium education, tertiary institutions are increasingly providing academic support services to L2 students, and thus, the number of writing centers working with L2 student writers has also increased.
Shanthi Tiruchittampalam, Alistair Ross, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Tom Nicholson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch, Maximilian Holland, Klaus Drechsler, Johannes Schilp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ontology‐Aligned Structuring and Reuse of Multimodal Materials Data and Workflows Toward Automatic Reproduction

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Reproduction of stacking fault energy calculations from literature with a semi‐automated large language model‐assisted extraction procedure: extraction of simulation protocol, atomistic structures, computational parameters, and reported results, ontology alignment, knowledge graph construction and, finally, recomputation forvalidation.
Sepideh Baghaee Ravari, Abril Azocar Guzman, Sarath Menon, Stefan Sandfeld, Tilmann Hickel, Markus Stricker   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIALOGIC TEACHING FOR IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILLS AT A UNIVERSITY IN WEST JAVA

English Review: Journal of English Education
In the present day, English has become a crucial language that individuals must acquire proficiency in. It has been extensively taught as a second language in many locations throughout the globe for a considerable period of time.
Laser Romios, Bachrudin Musthafa, Nenden Sri Lengkanawati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Arab Gulf English majors’ language preferences, use and beliefs across domains [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture
English is the dominant medium of instruction for numerous university programmes across the Arab Gulf. While a growing body of research examines learners’ attitudes towards English Medium Instruction (EMI), issues of language preference/use have received
Christopher Denman, Chandrika Balasubramanian   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

DigiChrom: A Domain Ontology for Semantic Representation of Trivalent Chromium Platings and Its Large Language Model‐Based Alignment With Multiple Mid‐Level Ontologies

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Digitalizing electroplating requires both domain knowledge and interoperability. This work introduces PlatOn, a domain ontology for trivalent chromium plating and coating characterization, and a hybrid pipeline that aligns it to a mid‐level reference ontology by combining eight similarity metrics with language model reasoning. Expert‐validated mappings
Janik Harter, Elena Garcia Trelles, Christoph Schweizer, Thomas Seifert, Christoph Baumer, Mahmoud Elkady, Katja Feige, Daniel Grimme, Edgar Hoffmann, Andreas Waibel, Anke Walter   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing Language and Study Skills Challenges in Online Undergraduate EMI Courses

Education Sciences, 2023
English-medium instruction (EMI) is taking hold within higher education in non-Anglophone settings, but there is insufficient research into the challenges students encounter when taking EMI courses online. This exploratory quantitative study conducted in
Lucas Kohnke, Andrew Jarvis
doaj   +1 more source