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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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The Linguistic and Cognitive Effects of a One-Week Online Italian Language Course: A Pilot Study

Journal of the European Second Language Association
This pilot study examined whether one week of intensive online Italian instruction could yield significant changes in bilinguals’ verbal fluency skills in their second language (L2) (Italian) and first language (L1) (English), as well as in attentional ...
Mattia Zingaretti, Roberta Spelorzi, Taranjit K. Sohanpaul, Antonella Sorace   +3 more
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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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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Schooling Trajectories and the Development of Brain Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Montessori and Traditional Education

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We investigate whether Montessori and traditional schooling systems shape the developmental trajectory of large‐scale brain dynamics in different ways. We quantify the arrow of time (“non‐reversibility”) in neural activity during resting state and movie‐watching, revealing distinct maturational patterns.
Elvira del Agua, Anira Escrichs, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Morten L. Kringelbach, Adele Diamond, Solange Denervaud, Gustavo Deco   +6 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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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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Information Retrieval and the Philosophy of Language [PDF]

The Computer Journal, 1992
L'A. met en avant les implications de la philosophie du langage pour la recherche d'information, notamment en ce qui concerne les difficultes de la description des contenus intellectuels. Les echecs du processus de recherche d'information sur le plan linguistique se situent aux niveaux de la description et de la discrimination, et dans l'equilibre ...
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Multidimensional and Multifunctional Laser‐Induced Graphene (LIG) for Point‐of‐Care and Wearable Biosensing, Theranostics, and Bioactive Interfaces Toward Personalized Healthcare and Regenerative Medicine

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Multidimensional laser‐induced graphene (LIG) spanning from 0D to 3D architectures is comprehensively reviewed for multifunctional biomedical platforms, including biosensing, theranostics, and bioactive interface applications, which highlights its potentials for point‐of‐care diagnostics, wearable health monitoring, smart drug delivery, and tissue ...
Li Zhang, Yurou Yuan, Xiaohong Ding, Wing Cheung Mak   +3 more
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SILENCING DIFFERENCES IN THAMMAVONGSA’S HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE

Filolog
This paper specifically deals with the process of integration in multicultural Canada and its focus on language as a marker of foreignness, as represented in Souvakham Thammavongsa’s short story collection How to Pronounce Knife.
Sanja Ignjatović, Jovana Jovac
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