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Project-based learning in English for specific purposes instruction in higher education: Opportunities and challenges [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Project-based learning (PBL) is increasingly recognized as a pedagogically effective approach in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) instruction at the tertiary level of education.
Zečević Snežana M., Dilparić Branislava M., Andrejević Ana M.   +2 more
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Descriptive Indexicals, Deferred Reference, and Anaphora

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020
The objectives of this paper are twofold. The first is to present a differentiation between two kinds of deferred uses of indexicals: those in which indexical utterances express singular propositions (I term them deferred reference proper) and those ...
Kijania-Placek Katarzyna
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Measurement characteristics and genome-wide correlates of lifetime brain atrophy estimated from a single MRI

Nature Communications
As a cardinal marker of brain ageing, lifetime brain atrophy obtained from a cross-sectional magnetic resonance image promises to boost statistical power to uncover novel genetic mechanisms of neurodegeneration.
Anna E. Fürtjes, Isabelle F. Foote, Charley Xia, Gail Davies, Joanna Moodie, Adele Taylor, David C. Liewald, Paul Redmond, Janie Corley, Andrew M. McIntosh, Heather C. Whalley, Susana Muñoz Maniega, Maria Valdés Hernández, Ellen Backhouse, Karen Ferguson, Mark E. Bastin, Joanna Wardlaw, Javier de la Fuente, Andrew D. Grotzinger, Michelle Luciano, W. David Hill, Ian J. Deary, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, Simon R. Cox   +23 more
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Sociodemographic predictors of parenting stress among mothers in socio-economically deprived settings in rural and urban Kenya and Zambia

Scientific Reports
Parental stress occurs when parenting demands exceed the resources available to cope with parenting. Previous research has identified household wealth, educational level, marital status, age, and number of dependent children as predictors of parental ...
Kenneth Odhiambo Okelo, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, Silas Onyango, Elizabeth Wambui, Iain Hardie, Josiah King, Aja Louise Murray, Bonnie Auyeung   +7 more
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Cross-Linguistic Influence on L2 Before and After Extreme Reduction in Input: The Case of Japanese Returnee Children

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
This study investigates the choice of genitive forms (the woman’s book vs. the book of the woman) in the English of Japanese-English bilingual returnees (i.e., children who returned from a second language dominant environment to their first language ...
Maki Kubota, Caroline Heycock, Antonella Sorace, Jason Rothman, Jason Rothman   +4 more
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Linguistic Study: Exploring its Philosophical Underpinnings

SALEE, 2022
Linguistic is an alternate term that is frequently used in the language term. Linguistics is part of philosophy. Philosophy is the main core of all knowledge that human beings learn. Philosophy and language are inseparable units.
Ning Ratna Sinta Dewi
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Multivariate genome-wide association analysis of dyslexia and quantitative reading skill improves gene discovery

Translational Psychiatry
The ability to read is an important life skill and a major route to education. Dyslexia, characterized by difficulties with accurate/ fluent word reading, and poor spelling is influenced by genetic variation, with a twin study heritability estimate of 0 ...
Hayley S. Mountford, Else Eising, Pierre Fontanillas, Adam Auton, 23andMe Research Team, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Catherine Doust, Timothy C. Bates, Nicholas G. Martin, Simon E. Fisher, Michelle Luciano   +10 more
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Self-presentation in “unsuitable” resumes: A case from Serbia [PDF]

Sociologija, 2013
The main goal of this research was to explore the ways people portray themselves in resumes, labelled as “unsuitable” after the first review of the recruiters in a manufacturing company in Serbia.
Simić Nataša, Vukelić Milica, Đorđević Vesna   +2 more
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Parental stress and child stimulation practices: examining associations with child developmental outcomes over time in Kenya and Zambia

BMC Psychology
Background Parental stress often arises when parenting demands exceed the expected and actual resources available for parents to succeed in the parenting role. Parental stress is an important contributor to parent-child relationships.
Kenneth Okelo, Aja Louise Murray, Josiah King, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, Silas Onyango, Margaret Nampijja, Bonnie Auyeung   +6 more
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Optimization-based modeling of Lombard speech articulation: Supraglottal characteristics [PDF]

JASA Express Letters
This paper shows that a highly simplified model of speech production based on the optimization of articulatory effort versus intelligibility can account for some observed articulatory consequences of signal-to-noise ratio. Simulations of static vowels in
Benjamin Elie, Juraj Šimko, Alice Turk
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