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The Relationship Between Vitamin D Status and Bone Mineral Density in the Elderly: A Systematic Review

Physical Activity and Health, 2019
Vitamin D plays an extremely crucial role for the development, growth, and maintenance of a healthy skeleton, and vitamin D deficiency is a contribute factor for osteoporosis and relating fractures.
Xuanlin Chen, Bo Zhang
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A corpus-based discourse analysis of China’s national image constructed by environmental news in The New York Times

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
The persuasive function of topoi—the conclusion rules connecting the arguments and claims—in national image construction through news discourse has been relatively under-researched. This article presents findings from a corpus-based discourse analysis of
Mei Yang, Ziwei Wang
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Multilingual Education Policy and LOTE Teacher Development: Focusing on China’s LOTE Programs in Higher Education

Education Sciences, 2023
This article, drawing on recent research on Language Other than English (LOTE) programs in China’s universities, examines the impact of multilingual education policy on the professional development of LOTE teachers.
Wenjun Yu, Hao Xu
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Sociodemographic, psychological and politicocultural correlates in Flemish students' attitudes towards French and English [PDF]

, 2005
An analysis of 100 Flemish high-school students' attitudes towards French and English (both foreign languages) revealed complex links etween personality factors, gender, politicocultural identity, communicative behaviour and foreign language attitudes ...
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Predicting language learners' grades in the L1, L2, L3 and L4: the effect of some psychological and sociocognitive variables [PDF]

, 2007
This study of 89 Flemish high-school students' grades for L1 (Dutch), L2 (French), L3 (English) and L4 (German) investigates the effects of three higher-level personality dimensions (psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism), one lower-level personality ...
Argyle M., Chamorro-Premuzic T., Costa P., Costa P., Dewaele J-M., Dewaele J-M., Dewaele J-M., Dourado M. R., Dö rnyei Z., Eysenck H. J., Eysenck H. J., Eysenck H. J., Furnham A., Gardner R. C., Gleick J., Housen A., Jean-Marc Dewaele, Jessner U., Kiani G., Kinginger C., Kinginger C., Lalonde R. N., Lasagabaster D., Lasagabaster D., Lasagabaster D., Lochtman K., MacIntyre P. D., MacIntyre P. D., Marin-Marin A., Mettewie L., Naiman N., Preston D., Safont-Jordà M. P., Sternberg R. J., Swain M., Van Daele S., Willems D.   +36 more
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Learner Autonomy Through the Use of ChatGPT by Third-Year Students of English Faculty at University of Foreign Language Studies (UFLS)

Edukasia
This study aimed to investigate the impact of utilizing ChatGPT on learner autonomy of third-year students of Faculty of English at the University of Danang – University of Foreign Language Studies (UD – UFLS).
Thuan Phung Tan, Thao Tran Ngo Hanh, Giang Nguyen Hoang Huong   +2 more
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The knowledge domain of cognitive neuroscience of aging: A Scientometric and bibliometric analysis

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2023
Cognitive neuroscience of aging (CNA) is a relatively young field compared with other branches of cognitive aging (CA). From the beginning of this century, scholars in CNA have contributed many valuable research to explain the cognitive ability decline ...
Jiaxing Jiang, Lin Fan, Jia Liu
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Grain Boundary Space Charge Engineering of Solid Oxide Electrolytes: Model Thin Film Study

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates unprecedented control of grain boundary electrical properties in solid electrolytes. Selective diffusion of cations through grain boundaries in thin films enables 12 orders of magnitude variation in ionic resistance, proving that systematic chemical modification of grain boundary electrical properties is feasible.
Thomas Defferriere, Yong Beom Kim, Colin Gilgenbach, James M. LeBeau, WooChul Jung, Harry L. Tuller   +5 more
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Reducing Students' Foreign Language Anxiety in Speaking Class Through Cooperative Learning [PDF]

, 2018
One of the challenges in teaching English as a foreign language to students in Indonesia is the existence of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) that are faced by students at any level of education.
Susidamaiyanti, S. (Susidamaiyanti)
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