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“I Mean You Can Stop. I Already Understand You”: Head Tilts during Conversations

Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa, 2022
This study tried to shed light specifically on head gestures which are categorized as upward tilts, downward tilts, leftward tilts, rightward tilts, nods, shakes, and turns.
Nyak Mutia Ismail, Veni Nella Syahputri
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Neurocognitive, School‐Based, and Quality of Life Outcomes for Youth With Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia: A Scoping Review

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The medical burdens of sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion‐dependent β‐thalassemia (TDT) are chronic and cumulative, even in children. Yet the effects expand beyond medications and healthcare visits due to their impacts on school attendance, academic performance, and peer engagement.
Mary Ann Etling, Hakim Tokhi, Alexander A. Boucher   +2 more
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Navigating through archives, libraries and museums: Topic Maps as a harmonizing instrument [PDF]

, 2005
The paper deals with the possibility of creating a topic map based system where different sectors of cultural heritage would interact with users, by monitoring the navigation histories of users and the statistics on the searches, in order to authorize ...
Vassallo, Salvatore
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‘You can’t stand on a corner and talk about it …’: Medicinal cannabis use, impression management and the analytical status of interviews

Methodological Innovations, 2018
In this article, I examine how four medicinal cannabis users used impression management during in-depth, qualitative interviews to attend to self-presentational concerns.
Craig Morris
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Dyadic Interviews versus In-Depth Individual Interviews in Exploring Food Choices of Norwegian Older Adults: A Comparison of Two Qualitative Methods

Foods, 2021
The term “dyadic interview” refers to interviewing two participants together. Although there has been an increase in the use of dyadic interviews as a data collection method in qualitative studies, the literature on the use of this method with older ...
Fifi Kvalsvik, Torvald Øgaard
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Figures of speech : figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation [PDF]

, 1998
In conversation, speakers occasionally use figurative expressions such as “had a good innings,” “take with a pinch of salt,” or “come to the end of her tether.” This article investigates WHERE in conversation such expressions are used, in terms of their ...
Drew, P., Paul Drew, Holt, E., Drew, Paul, Elizabeth Holt, Holt, Elizabeth   +5 more
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Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Takaki Yamauchi, Yuta Funakoshi, Hirotaka Sonoda, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Takafumi Ito   +7 more
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Impact on physical, social, and family functioning of patients with metachromatic leukodystrophy and their family members in Japan: A qualitative study

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports
Metachromatic leukodystrophy is a rare autosomal recessive disease. There are three forms of this disease, all of which result in cognitive and motor dysfunctions.
Yuta Koto, Wakana Yamashita, Norio Sakai
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Topic guide for in depth interviews and focus group discussions.

, 2015
Topic guide for in depth interviews and focus group discussions.
Khatijah Lim Abdullah (811693), Ping Yein Lee (734910), Teng Aik Ong (612938), Chirk Jenn Ng (489270), Ai Theng Cheong (825175), Azad Hassan Abdul Razack (612941), Yew Kong Lee (489268)   +6 more
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Circulating microRNA signatures of cachexia and cancer in Canis familiaris as a comparative oncology model for human disease

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers of cachexia and sex‐specific cancer in senior dogs. In 25 client‐owned dogs, four circulating miRNAs (miR‐15a, miR‐15b, miR‐16, miR‐140) were downregulated in cachexia, with miR‐16 the strongest individual biomarker (AUC = 0.899).
Soon‐Seok Park, Kyongman An, Gyeonghwa Kim, Soo‐Nyun Choi, Hong‐Ki Lee, Keun Hur, Kyu‐Shik Jeong   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source