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Phase transition in a sexual age-structured model of learning foreign languages

open access: yes, 2005
The understanding of language competition helps us to predict extinction and survival of languages spoken by minorities. A simple agent-based model of a sexual population, based on the Penna model, is built in order to find out under which circumstances ...
Chomsky N.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Exercise Interventions in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults With Paediatric Bone Tumours—A Systematic Review

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bone tumours present significant challenges for affected patients, as multimodal therapy often leads to prolonged physical limitations. This is particularly critical during childhood and adolescence, as it can negatively impact physiological development and psychosocial resilience.
Jennifer Queisser   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Language Barriers on Quality of Care and Patient Safety for Official Language Minority Francophones in Canada

open access: yesJournal of Patient Experience, 2019
Introduction: The risks to patient safety and quality of care faced by members of linguistic minority groups have been well-documented. However, little research has focused on the experience of official language minorities in Canada.
Danielle de Moissac PhD, Sarah Bowen PhD
doaj   +1 more source

The situation of education for ethnic minorities in Bessarabia between 1917–1923 [PDF]

open access: yesDialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
The Tsarist policy in the field of education in Bessarabia was selective, aiming to restrict the establishment of schools with Romanian as the language of instruction and increase those with Russian as the language of instruction.
Marina MIRON
doaj   +1 more source

Turkish linguistic minorities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The present study discusses the linguistic minorities inhabiting Western Thrace. The treaty of Lausanne in 1923 was based on the religion of minorities and not their language.
Papadopoulos, Themistoklis
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DELP Treatment on Vision and Retinal Microcirculation in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: Report of Five Cases and Literature Review

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The delipid extracorporeal lipoprotein filter from plasma (DELP) treatment can effectively reduce blood lipid, increase blood flow, and improve neurological deficits in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). However, its effect on vision and retinal microcirculation in stroke patients has never been reported.
Ning Li   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic disenfranchisement, minority resistance and language revitalisation: The contributions of ethnolinguistic online communities in Zimbabwe

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2018
Zimbabwe is a multicultural nation with multiple ethnolinguistic groups. Since 1980, when the country attained its independence from colonial rule, the government has struggled to fit all linguistic and cultural representations in the public domain. This
Phillip Mpofu, Abiodun Salawu
doaj   +1 more source

Researching Changing Language Learning Identities for Ethnic Minority Education Policy Formulation: A Case Study of Macau S.A.R., China

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2011
 In this paper the authors discuss preliminary findings from research on language learning identities of ethnic minority groups for education policy formulation. The research aims to identify and interpret changing language identities, preferences, modes
Manuel Noronha, Ian Chaplin
doaj   +1 more source

Education of national minorities in primary schools in the Republic of Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2022
The position taken in this paper is that the development of a society depends on the status, role and importance of the educational system, and that education has a significant impact on personality formation.
Jovanović Marko S.   +1 more
doaj  

Structural instability impairs function of the UDP‐xylose synthase 1 Ile181Asn variant associated with short‐stature genetic syndrome in humans

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The Ile181Asn variant of human UDP‐xylose synthase (hUXS1), associated with a short‐stature genetic syndrome, has previously been reported as inactive. Our findings demonstrate that Ile181Asn‐hUXS1 retains catalytic activity similar to the wild‐type but exhibits reduced stability, a looser oligomeric state, and an increased tendency to precipitate ...
Tuo Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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