Three-Dimensional Variation of the Human Hard Palate Across Populations: A Geometric Morphometrics Study. [PDF]
Chiam TL +4 more
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ABSTRACT Patient experience is a critical indicator of healthcare quality and therefore requires assessment using robust measurement tools. One such is the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey. However, limited evidence supports its validation, underscoring the need for further psychometric evaluation across ...
Mehmet Gülşen +6 more
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"Difficult, but I Survived": a hermeneutic qualitative study of the lived experience and meanings of resilience in self-care among older adults with diabetes in Northeast Malaysia. [PDF]
Zulkifli MM +5 more
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Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice‐Based Theories of Reference
ABSTRACT Practice theories are a genus of causal theories of reference. They claim that the semantic referent of an utterance of a name is determined by features of a practice of using that name to speaker‐refer to, or coordinate actions around, a certain object.
Hugo Heagren
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Knowledge and barriers to pain management among cancer caregivers in Malaysia: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Shamsuddin SS +3 more
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Abstract This study explores ways in which multilingual English listeners react to and rate three varieties of Asian English in three presentational modes: audio only, audiovisual and audiovisual with a face mask. Using a speech intelligibility framework, the study examines the extent to which presentational mode affects intelligibility and listener ...
Jette G. Hansen Edwards, Mary L. Zampini
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Long-term incidence and progression of vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy in Asian populations. [PDF]
Koh BMQR +4 more
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Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca
Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie +2 more
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Translation, adaptation, and validation of the body image scale among cancer patients in Malaysia. [PDF]
Song W +4 more
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EFL learning, religious faith and globalization in Indonesia's pesantren
Abstract Increasing global demands to teach and learn English in religious educational institutions remain high, yet little EFL research has been conducted in such contexts. Using Indonesia's Islamic educational institutions (i.e., the pesantren) as a focus of analysis, this article seeks to narrow that gap by examining the key factors driving EFL ...
Muhammad Jauhari Sofi +1 more
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