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Integrative Motivation as a Predictor of Achievement in the Foreign Language Classroom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This study examines the relationship among five independent variables—integrative motivation, instrumental motivation, the need to fulfill a foreign language requirement, grade point average (GPA), and previous years studying Spanish—as predictors of ...
Hernandez, Todd A
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Hogbetsotso festival and migration stories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this fragment Dr. Datey-Kumodzie recollects the historical migration of the Ewes and offers songs related to the festival. The organization of the Hogbetsotso festival is presented and interpreted as well as the dance and song enacting the ...
Merolla, Daniela
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Ask Your Neurons: A Neural-based Approach to Answering Questions about Images

open access: yes, 2015
We address a question answering task on real-world images that is set up as a Visual Turing Test. By combining latest advances in image representation and natural language processing, we propose Neural-Image-QA, an end-to-end formulation to this problem ...
Fritz, Mario   +2 more
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Short Distal Resection Margin Does Not Increase Recurrence Risk After R0 Resection for Rectal Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study of 208 Patients

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study evaluated the impact of distal resection margin (DRM) length on recurrence in 208 patients undergoing surgery for rectal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). Our findings demonstrate that while oncological safety must unquestionably remain the top priority, a short pathological DRM (< 10 mm) does not increase recurrence risk when R0 resection is ...
Kentaro Sato   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self presentation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
At the beginning of the interview, the interviewee made it clear that he was a repository of a very special, secret knowledge that no other researcher could reveal and that he was worried about “people tapping and stealing” his knowledge.The Verba ...
Merolla, Daniela
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Educational Impact of Artificial Intelligence‐Navigation Surgery on Anatomical Landmark Recognition in Medical Students

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study evaluated the educational impact of artificial intelligence (AI)‐navigation surgery that provides real‐time anatomical landmark recognition during laparoscopic cholecystectomy for medical students. Thirty students were randomized into surgeon‐guided, self‐learning, and AI‐learning groups, and their performance was assessed using Dice ...
Shigeo Ninomiya   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grammatical errors in spoken english of University students in oral communication course [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The present study examines the grammatical errors in spoken English of university students who are less proficient in English. The specific objectives of the study are to determine the types of errors and the changes in grammatical accuracy during the
Mahanita Mahadhir,   +2 more
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Psoas Muscle Volume as a Predictor of Postoperative Complications in Patients Undergoing Emergency Surgery for Strangulated Small Bowel Obstruction: A Retrospective Single‐Center Study

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This retrospective study identified low preoperative psoas muscle volume, measured by computed tomography, as an independent predictor of postoperative complications in patients undergoing emergency surgery for strangulated small bowel obstruction. Low psoas muscle volume, particularly in older adults, was associated with cardiopulmonary and systemic ...
Takuya Shiraishi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tibetan dining etiquette: A sociolinguistic analysis of a normative discourse text in Stau [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The primary objective of this article is to provide a transcription, glossing, and translation of a recent oral presentation called རྟའུ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཉི་མ་གི་ཟ་མ་ལུགས་སྐོར་ཞིབ་ཆ་དེ་དག་སྣང་བྱེད་ (henceforth ZML), which can be translated as “Stau Tub.bstan.nyi.
Gates, Jesse   +2 more
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