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A Guide to Key Decision Criteria for Likert‐Scale Use in Survey Research
Global Business and Organizational Excellence, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although widely used in survey research, the application of the Likert scale often lacks rigorous justification in relation to key methodological decisions. Furthermore, inconsistencies in terminology persist, for example, the common reference made to the “5‐point Likert scale,” even though debate is ongoing about the optimal number of ...
Khan Md Raziuddin Taufique +2 more
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Semantic Embeddings of Chemical Elements for Enhanced Materials Inference and Discovery
Materials Genome Engineering Advances, EarlyView.ElementBERT extracts semantic embeddings of chemical elements from 1.29 million alloy‐related abstracts, providing robust descriptors that improve prediction accuracy by up to 23% across titanium, high‐entropy, and shape memory alloys, with demonstrated generalization on alloy compositions reported in 2025.
Yunze Jia +7 more
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Going “out” to Vienna: Sociogeographic perspectivization in Central European languages
ELAD-SILDAThis paper examines the use of spatial adverbs and preverbs, such as up, down, in or out, in combination with toponyms in directional and local expressions in a number of nonstandard varieties of Alpine Gallo-Romance, Burgenland Croatian ...
Jakob Wiedner, Daphne Reitinger
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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu +4 more
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The concept fury in Ukrainian media: Semiotic and cognitive potential
ELAD-SILDAThis article examines the semiotic and cognitive dimensions of the concept fury, which has recently gained significant prominence in Ukrainian war-related media.
Ievgeniia Bondarenko
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The English privative prefixes near-, pseudo- and quasi-: Approximation and 'disproximation'
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2023 The English prefixes near-, pseudo- and quasi- are privative, in that whatever essential property their morphological base expresses is not strictly possessed by an entity characterized as near-/pseudo-/quasi-X.
Bert Cappelle +2 more
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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On some aspectual adverbs – in Brazilian Portuguese and in Chilean Spanish – that seem ambiguous
ELAD-SILDAWe turn to Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Chilean Spanish (CS) in our study of some aspectual adverbs which, according to Cinque (1999, 2004), have a dual source both concerning their position in the universal hierarchy of adverbs and their scope.
Aquiles Tescari Neto +1 more
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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the outcomes of the implementation of a first grade unit incorporating multiple modes of representation and genre‐based pedagogy to support writing instruction in the genre of sequential explanations. At the end of a 6‐day unit investigating the structure and functions of carnivorous plants, 47 first graders completed a
Rachel E. Wilson, Leslie U. Bradbury
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Russian assimilatory palatalization is incomplete neutralization
Laboratory PhonologyIncomplete neutralization refers to phonetic traces of underlying contrasts in phonologically neutralizing contexts. The present study examines one such context: Russian assimilatory palatalization in C+j sequences.
Alexei Kochetov +3 more
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