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Topological study on electrode wells of vertical grounding electrodes of UHVDC

open access: yesThe Journal of Engineering, 2019
The main body of vertical grounding electrodes of an ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) converter station is dispersed electrode wells, due to the shielding effect between electrode wells, the arrangement of which is a problem that needs to ...
Wei Chen   +5 more
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Facilitating Intercultural Encounters with International Students: A Contribution to Inclusion and Social Network Formation

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2021
Higher education has become increasingly mobile and international, with many students taking the opportunity to study abroad during their studies. When they do so, forming and maintaining social networks is fundamental for their development of a sense of
Katharina Resch, José Pedro Amorim
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English speakers in outer-circle and expanding-circle settings

open access: yesJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Abstract Drawing upon Kachru's concentric circles of English, the present study explores whether middle-class Japanese students who chose to study English solo at private language schools in Singapore diverge from many others who (wish to) study inner-circle English.
openaire   +2 more sources

Representation of inner, outer and expanding circle varieties and cultures in global ELT textbooks

open access: yesAsian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2020
The rise of world Englishes has challenged the emphasis on native-speaker accents and cultures in English language teaching. This study aimed to investigate the representation of world Englishes and cultures in three global language teaching textbooks ...
Zia Tajeddin, Maryam Pakzadian
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Life After Losing an Adult Child to a Drug Overdose: A Kawa Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: Limited research is available to occupational therapy practitioners focusing on parents’ abilities to cope with the loss of an adult child to a drug overdose.
De Brun, Jessica Nicole   +3 more
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Genus Ranges of Chord Diagrams

open access: yes, 2014
A chord diagram consists of a circle, called the backbone, with line segments, called chords, whose endpoints are attached to distinct points on the circle.
Jonathan Burns   +3 more
core   +1 more source

True fertilisation failure in captivity is rare

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation
Species recovery through captive breeding can be hindered by low reproductive success. However, we know little about the drivers of early reproductive failure in captive populations, due to difficulties distinguishing fertilisation failure from early ...
Ashleigh F. Marshall   +9 more
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On grounded L-graphs and their relatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We consider the graph class Grounded-L corresponding to graphs that admit an intersection representation by L-shaped curves, where additionally the topmost points of each curve are assumed to belong to a common horizontal line.
Jelínek, Vít, Töpfer, Martin
core   +3 more sources

Higgsing and twisting of 6d D N gauge theories

open access: yesJournal of High Energy Physics, 2020
We propose Type IIB 5-brane configurations that engineer the 6d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = (1, 0) SCFTs with SO(N) gauge symmetry coupled to a single tensor multiplet on a circle, by considering RG flows on Higgs branches of D-type conformal matter theories ...
Hee-Cheol Kim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Variations in Verb-Preposition Combinations in the GloWbE Corpus and Its Usage in Informal Englishes

open access: yesREiLA, 2021
This paper is based on the Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE) which was compiled by Mark Davies in 2013. The GloWbE corpus consists of web data from 20 different English speaking countries.
Kazi Amzad Hossain
doaj   +1 more source

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