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Factors Influencing Malay Language Learning among Malaysian Chinese Independent Secondary School Students

open access: yesArbitrer
The Malaysian Chinese Independent Secondary Schools (MCISS) strive to develop students proficient in three languages: Chinese, English, and Malay. Despite the national status of the Malay language, learners in these schools consistently demonstrate low ...
Fong Peng Chew
doaj   +1 more source

Successful Family Language Policy: Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction, edited by Mila Schwartz and Anna Verschik. Multilingual Matters, 2013. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Demonstrating a burgeoning interest in the field of family language policy (FLP) around the world, Successful Family Language Policy comprises several contributions from researchers working on multiple different contexts, united in their aim to address ...
Walls, Francesca
core  

Scalable Task Planning via Large Language Models and Structured World Representations

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work efficiently combines graph‐based world representations with the commonsense knowledge in Large Language Models to enhance planning techniques for the large‐scale environments that modern robots will need to face. Planning methods often struggle with computational intractability when solving task‐level problems in large‐scale environments ...
Rodrigo Pérez‐Dattari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The nexus of Family Language Policy

open access: yesSociolinguistic Studies
Three decades of research on reversing language shift, bi- and multilingual parenting, and Family Language Policy (FLP) have demonstrated that, while parental language practices and ideologies are important factors in determining children’s language ...
Lyn Wright
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Grounding Large Language Models for Robot Task Planning Using Closed‐Loop State Feedback

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
BrainBody‐Large Language Model (LLM) introduces a hierarchical, feedback‐driven planning framework where two LLMs coordinate high‐level reasoning and low‐level control for robotic tasks. By grounding decisions in real‐time state feedback, it reduces hallucinations and improves task reliability.
Vineet Bhat   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Troubling’ Migrant Families: Representations of Family and Migration in Official Lithuanian Policy Documents

open access: yesVilnius University Open Series, 2020
This chapter set up to examine the language of ‘family’ in key policy documents regulating family life in Lithuania. Drawing on theoretical ideas of Ribbens McCarthy the authors look into the ways of framing of family life, identify scripts of ‘normal ...
Irena Juozeliūnienė   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Driving Battery and Solar Purchase Decision of Residents: a Behavioural Choice Experiment Using a Hybrid Discrete Choice and Latent Variable Model

open access: yesAdvanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
This article explores what drives households to adopt solar PV and battery systems in South East Queensland. Using hybrid discrete choice experiments, it reveals distinct adopter profiles and highlights cost, system size, and energy independence as key motivators.
Mohammad Alipour   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grandparents’ influence on children’s language development in multilingual families: A capital theory perspective [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
With the increasing prevalence of dual-career families and transnational marriages, most children live in two and more language environments. The theme of this paper is the influence of grandparents on children’s language development in multilingual ...
Li Xiaoqian
doaj   +1 more source

Ensuring Linguistic Access in Health Care Settings: An Overview of Current Legal Rights and Responsibilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Focuses on the language access responsibilities of healthcare and coverage providers pursuant to federal and state laws and ...
Jane Perkins
core  

Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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