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Belles-Lettres Reading Strategies in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2015
The article is devoted to some of the teaching strategies based on the peculiarities of belles-lettres text. The author of the article analyses the peculiarities of the belles-lettres text which exert influence on the process of teaching reading skills ...
A. S. Komarov
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COVID-19 Vaccines: Fear of Side Effects among German Health Care Workers

Vaccines, 2022
(1) Background: Health care workers (HCWs) play a key role in increasing anti-COVID vaccination rates. Fear of potential side effects is one of the main reasons for vaccine hesitancy.
C. Holzmann-Littig, T. Frank, C. Schmaderer, M. Braunisch, L. Renders, P. Kranke, M. Popp, C. Seeber, F. Fichtner, Bianca Littig, J. Carbajo-Lozoya, J. Meerpohl, B. Haller, C. Allwang, On Behalf Of The CEOsys Consortium   +14 more
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The art of composing: between autonomy and heteronomy

Techne, 2021
«Music conveys different meanings to everyone, and sometimes, it can even communicate different things at different times to the same person», Daniel Barenboim once said. This is tantamount to saying that music is influenced by the context in which it is
Cristina Frosini
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Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Patients with Serious Chronic Illnesses during the Initial Australian Vaccine Rollout: A Multi-Centre Qualitative Analysis Using the Health Belief Model

Vaccines, 2023
Background: People with chronic illnesses have increased morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19 infection. The influence of a person’s serious and/or comorbid chronic illness on COVID-19 vaccine uptake is not well understood.
T. Choi, B. Chan, L. Grech, A. Kwok, K. Webber, Jennifer Wong, M. Nguyen, N. Bain, D. Day, A. McCartney, Ruby Hamer, E. Segelov, On Behalf Of The Canvaccs Diabvaccs And Msvaccs In   +12 more
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The Challenge of Co-Religionist Commerce [PDF]

, 2014
This Article addresses the rise of co-religionist commerce in the United States—that is, the explosion of commercial dealings that take place between co-religionists who intend their transactions to achieve both commercial and religious objectives.
Fleetwood, Filippa, Frejd, Fredrik Y., Gunneriusson, Elin, Hanze, Martin, Klint, Susanne, Lofblom, John, Stah, Stefan   +6 more
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A novel Big Data analytics and intelligent technique to predict driver's intent [PDF]

, 2018
Modern age offers a great potential for automatically predicting the driver's intent through the increasing miniaturization of computing technologies, rapid advancements in communication technologies and continuous connectivity of heterogeneous smart ...
Abtahi, Adam Grzywaczewski, Agrawal, Al-Sultan, Asimov, Bernardo, Bezdek, Bhavsar, Bostrom, Chang, Chen, Dawson, De Domenico, Diaz-Cabrera, Doctor, Doctor, Dreier, Faiyaz Doctor, Filev, Froehlich, Gerhardt, Grudin, Grzywaczewski, Hashem, Hawkins, Hawkins, Haykin, Hirsch, Huang, Huang, Iqbal, Jaguar Land Rover Limited, Jain, James, Kaisler, Kapicioglu, Karyotis, Karyotis, Kotsiantis, Kumar, Kumar, Kurihata, Lech Birek, Liao, Liu, Luukka, Mahmud, Maniak, Maniak, McFarland, McInerney, Mitchell, Nasoz, Noulas, Palen, Pang, Parpinelli, Poli, Quercia, Rahat Iqbal, Rainville, Reininger, Richards, Rish, Sagiroglu, Simmons, Sun, Suthaharan, Tan, Tran, Utgoff, Victor Chang, Wang, Warren, Wells-Parker, Whitley, Zadeh   +76 more
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Security Code Smells in Android ICC [PDF]

, 2018
Android Inter-Component Communication (ICC) is complex, largely unconstrained, and hard for developers to understand. As a consequence, ICC is a common source of security vulnerability in Android apps.
Frischknecht, Patrick, Gadient, Pascal, Ghafari, Mohammad, Nierstrasz, Oscar   +3 more
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Breast cancer and combined oral contraceptives: results from a multinational study. The WHO Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives.

British Journal of Cancer, 1990
A collaborative, hospital-based case-control study was conducted at 12 participating centres in 10 countries. Based on data from personal interviews of 2,116 women with newly diagnosed breast cancer and 12,077 controls, the relative risk of breast cancer
The Who Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives
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Using Information Filtering in Web Data Mining Process [PDF]

, 2007
Web service-oriented Grid is becoming a standard for achieving loosely coupled distributed computing. Grid services could easily be specified with web-service based interfaces.
Bruza, Peter, Lau, Raymond, Li, Yuefeng, Wu, Shengtang, Xu, Yue, Zhou, Xujuan   +5 more
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An End-to-End Conversational Style Matching Agent

, 2019
We present an end-to-end voice-based conversational agent that is able to engage in naturalistic multi-turn dialogue and align with the interlocutor's conversational style. The system uses a series of deep neural network components for speech recognition,
Bartneck Christoph, Bickmore Timothy, DeVault David, Elofson Greg, Gratch Jonathan, Hirschberg Julia, Pecune Florian, S, Tannen Deborah, Thomas Paul   +9 more
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