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LEXTALE_CH: A quick, character-based proficiency test for Mandarin Chinese [PDF]

, 2018
Research in second language acquisition suggests that objective performance-based assessments may provide more reliable and valid measures of second language proficiency than subjective self-ratings. To measure proficiency in English as a second language,
Chan, I. Lei, Chang, Charles B.
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A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English [PDF]

, 2010
Phonological free variation describes the phenomenon of there being more than one pronunciation for a word without any change in meaning (e.g. because, schedule, vehicle).
A. Cruttenden, A. McEnery, A. McEnery, Alice Henderson, D. Temperley, J. Mompéan, J. Wells, J. Wells, M Celce-Murcia, P. Trudgill, Y. Shitara   +10 more
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Immunoinformatics‐Based Design of a Multi‐Epitope Vaccine Targeting a Conserved Copper–Associated Protein in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neisseria gonorrhoeae poses an urgent public health challenge due to rapidly increasing antimicrobial resistance and the absence of an effective vaccine. Targeting conserved bacterial pathways involved in essential physiological processes may provide new opportunities for vaccine antigen discovery.
Sinethemba H. Yakobi, Uchechukwu U. Nwodo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emotion and language: valence and arousal affect word recognition [PDF]

, 2014
Emotion influences most aspects of cognition and behavior, but emotional factors are conspicuously absent from current models of word recognition. The influence of emotion on word recognition has mostly been reported in prior studies on the automatic ...
Brysbaert, Marc, Estes, Z, Kuperman, V, Warriner, AB   +3 more
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Impact of empiric potassium supplementation on mortality, sudden cardiac arrest and stroke in furosemide initiators

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aim A prior non‐randomized study suggests that potassium supplementation may improve survival among furosemide initiators, and a randomized trial suggests that salt substitutes containing potassium might lower stroke risk. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using health‐care data to confirm or refute these associations among new users of ...
Thanh Phuong Pham Nguyen, Sean Hennessy, Colleen M. Brensinger, Warren B. Bilker, Laura M. Dember, Todd A. Miano, Tat‐Thang Vo, Allison W. Willis, Charles E. Leonard   +8 more
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Retrodatação: seu papel crucial na confecção de um dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa  

Romanica Cracoviensia
Among the problems existing in entries in etymological dictionaries, one of the most serious is the absence or imprecision of a terminus a quo, that is, the oldest dating of the lexical item in the ...
Mário Eduardo Viaro
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A systematic review of second language (L2) student writers' metacognitive experiences

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This systematic review synthesises empirical evidence on second language (L2) student writers' metacognitive experiences (MEs) across different classroom‐based L2 learning contexts in peer‐reviewed academic journals. A comprehensive search of six databases (Scopus, APA PsycINFO, British Education Index, ERIC subscription, Education Source and ...
Zhe Li, Jing Wu, Allen Thurston, Joanne O'Keeffe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on Noun-to-Verb Conversion In English

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2006
English denominal verbs formed by conversion adopt complex morphosyntactic and semantic information in a rather mysterious way. For example, the lexical item bottle is unambiguously interpreted as a referential expression in a sentence like John bought a
Baeskow Heike
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The role of the frontal cortex in memory: an investigation of the Von Restorff effect [PDF]

, 2014
Evidence from neuropsychology and neuroimaging indicate that the pre-frontal cortex (PFC) plays an important role in human memory. Although frontal patients are able to form new memories, these memories appear qualitatively different from those of ...
Alexander, Anat Elhalal, Anderson, Atkinson, Baldo, Becker, Bjork, Bone, Bousfield, Cattell, Craik, Daffner, Davelaar, Davelaar, Davelaar, Davelaar, Deese, Delis, Duncan, Duncan, Duncan, Eddy J. Davelaar, Elhalal, Estes, Fabiani, Fabiani, Fletcher, Frith, Gershberg, Glanzer, Glanzer, Greene, Grossberg, Grossberg, Grossberg, Haarmann, Haarmann, Howard, Howard, Hunt, Incisa della Rocchetta, Kelley, Kishiyama, Løvstad, Marius Usher, McLaughlin, Melo, Mensink, Moscovitch, Moscovitch, O'Reilly, Polyn, Polyn, Raaijmakers, Ranganath, Roediger, Savage, Sederberg, Shimamura, Shimamura, Stricker, Tulving, Van Overschelde, Von Restorff, Ward   +64 more
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Harnessing Generative AI for Sustainable Supply Chains: Lean, Circular and Green Perspectives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence is playing a significant role in the transformation of digital ecosystems by reinventing the processes of content generation, process automation, product innovation and customer experience. At the same time that these technologies are becoming more integrated into routine operations, the focus has shifted to ...
Ashutosh Singh, Rsha Alghafes, Judit Petra Koltai, Sushant Kumar Vishnoi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source