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A Decade in Transition: Forms of Recalibration in the Italian Regional Health Systems
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Starting in the 1990s, healthcare legislation in Italy gradually expanded the powers and responsibilities of the regions. In this context, focusing solely on the National Health Service (NHS) may have limited our understanding of regional‐level transformations over the past decade.
Marco Betti, Franca Maino
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World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the relationship between English language proficiency and socioeconomic status (ELP–SES relationship) through a quantitative cross‐national analysis of 30 jurisdictions in Asia. It aims to uncover the degrees and patterns of the ELP–SES relationship by analysing AsiaBarometer surveys conducted in the mid‐2000s ...
Takunori Terasawa
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The Use of English as Lingua Franca in the Classes of UKM: as A Case of Study
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2020 English has for long been one of the most widely used media of communication globally, especially in the Malaysian universities. It has been termed as a Lingua Franca because it is shared with other languages which are considered first languages by ...
Anfal Sabeeh Hamood
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Behavior Trees with Dataflow: Coordinating Reactive Tasks in Lingua Franca [PDF]
arXivBehavior Trees (BTs) provide a lean set of control flow elements that are easily composable in a modular tree structure. They are well established for modeling the high-level behavior of non-player characters in computer games and recently gained popularity in other areas such as industrial automation.
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Evolving a lingua franca and associated software infrastructure for computational systems biology: the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) project [PDF]
, 2004 Michael Hucka +10 more
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Exploring cultural and linguistic diversity in the English‐medium instruction university
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This study utilizes questionnaires, interviews, and universities’ web content and strategy documents to investigate the reasons behind the rise of English‐medium instruction in Türkiye's higher education and its implications for intercultural communication.
Talip Gülle +2 more
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Strongly-Consistent Distributed Discrete-event Systems [PDF]
arXivDiscrete-event (DE) systems are concurrent programs where components communicate via tagged events, where tags are drawn from a totally ordered set. Reactors are an emerging model of computation based on DE and realized in the open-source coordination language Lingua Franca.
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Conceptualising English as a business lingua franca
, 2018 Though a popular and somewhat controversial topic in discussions on language in IB, the notion of English as a (business) lingua franca/(B)ELF still lacks clear conceptualisation.
Miya Komori-Glatz
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Exploring third spaces during pre‐service teacher online intercultural conversations
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We examined intercultural conversations in English between South African and Dutch pre‐service teachers during a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project. Unlike traditional COIL research, which emphasizes good practices and professional development, our approach explored the significance of everyday conversations in finding ...
Peter Mesker, Sarina de Jager
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Okay in intercultural lingua franca interactions between Chinese and British postgraduate students
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The forms and functions of okay have been investigated extensively in contexts where interlocutors speak the same language (e.g., German, Hungarian, and Swedish). Conversely, comparatively few studies have been conducted on how okay is used among people who do not share the same first language, such as lingua franca encounters.
Angela Sabbah‐Taylor +1 more
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