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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching english pronunciation

open access: yes, 2021
This paper aims to discuss some challenges Brazilian learners of L2 English have regarding pronunciation. It considers the type of information dictionaries present and discusses what pronunciation model is more appropriate for classroom practice. A second aim of this paper is to present methdological suggestions for pronunciation instruction based on ...
Liza, Bruno Horta   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Consumer Acceptance of New Sustainable Food Technologies: Upcycling Technology, Biostimulants, and Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food systems have a significant impact on environmental sustainability, underscoring the need for innovative technologies to support more sustainable agricultural methods. However, the adoption of these technologies hinges on consumer acceptance, making the analysis of consumer perceptions essential.
Greta Castellini, Guendalina Graffigna
wiley   +1 more source

The Design and Implementation of the English Pronunciation Education Device

open access: yesInternational Journal of Emerging Issues in Early Childhood Education, 2019
The English learning issue is always a problem for students who are not coming from native English countries. Among the problems of English learning, such as spelling, reading, writing, the most significant barrier could be English pronunciation.
Kuo-Yi Chen, Wen Jie, Cai Cai
doaj   +1 more source

Trick or treat? Adaptation to Italian-accented English speech by native English, Italian, and Dutch listeners [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
English is spoken worldwide by both native (L1) and nonnative (L2) speakers. It is therefore imperative to establish how easily L1 and L2 speakers understand each other.
Di Betta, A., McQueen, J., Weber, A.
core  

Comparison of Minimally Invasive Colectomy Between Intra‐ Versus Extra‐Corporeal Anastomosis Technique (COMMIT Study): Mid‐Term Analysis

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This multicenter retrospective cohort study compared mid‐term oncological outcomes between intracorporeal anastomosis (IA) and extracorporeal anastomosis (EA) in minimally invasive colectomy for colon cancer using propensity score–matched data from 2018 to 2022.
Takuya Takami   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Native-speaker and English as a lingua franca pronunciation norms: English majors’ views

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Within the communicative approach to English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, the aims of instruction are primarily to enable learners to communicate; hence, functional and communicative intelligibility has become the goal of pronunciation training.
Aleksandra Wach
doaj   +1 more source

Short‐Term Outcomes of Robot‐Assisted Versus Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colon Cancer: A Propensity Score‐Matched Analysis

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study compared short‐term outcomes of robot‐assisted versus laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer using 1:1 propensity score matching. Among 218 matched pairs, robot‐assisted colectomy was associated with reduced blood loss, fewer conversions to open surgery, lower overall complication rates, and shorter hospital stays, despite longer operative ...
Akira Inoue   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combined Acoustic and Pronunciation Modelling for Non-Native Speech Recognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this paper, we present several adaptation methods for non-native speech recognition. We have tested pronunciation modelling, MLLR and MAP non-native pronunciation adaptation and HMM models retraining on the HIWIRE foreign accented English speech ...
Bouselmi, Ghazi   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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