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Immunosuppressive Drug Use in Limited Systemic Sclerosis: An International Survey

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Current guidelines recommend immunosuppressive treatment for diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis but are less clear on their use in limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) in the absence of internal organ complications. We conducted an international survey to understand current immunosuppressive drug prescribing patterns in lcSSc ...
Sabrina Hoa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effectiveness of Using Direct Instruction in Teaching Comprehension Skill of Third-Grade Students

open access: yes, 2022
Direct instruction is required in the use of different comprehension skills in order to advance students' ability to independently comprehend texts. Being able to make connections is an important reading comprehension strategy which allows students make ...
Yaghmour , Kholoud Subhi   +1 more
core   +1 more source

The effect of explicit vs. implicit instruction on mastering the speech act of thanking among Iranian male and female EFL learners

open access: yesLatin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2016
This pragmatic study investigated the speech act of thanking as used by non-native speakers of English. The study was an attempt to find whether the pragmatic awareness of Iranian EFL learners could be improved through explicit instruction of the ...
Mehdi Ghaedrahmat   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investmentempfehlungen in deutschen Börsenmagazinen.

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2023
The topic of this study is the pragmatics of investment recommendations in German financial magazines. The target reader, mainly a private investor, expects a clear assessment of the quality of the investment product and a corresponding operative ...
Daniela Puato
doaj   +1 more source

Frailty Predicts Incident Osteoporotic Fractures in Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with an increased risk of frailty and osteoporosis, but the relationship between frailty and incident osteoporotic fractures in RA is underexplored. Methods Data were from the Veterans Affairs (VA) Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry. Frailty was measured using the VA Frailty Index (VAFI).
Katherine D. Wysham   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Digital Drama-Based Instruction on Developing Receptive and Expressive Language among Kindergarten Children

open access: yes, 2023
Young children need to mentally retrieve and express words aloud. They also need understood words when they are heard or read. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the potential effects of digital drama -based instruction on developing ...
Barakat , Afaf Mamdouh Mohamed Abdel Razek
core   +1 more source

Sociocultural Theory and a Pragma-linguistic Pedagogical Intervention

open access: yesL2 Journal, 2015
L2 pragmatic instruction in grammar and writing is an area of second language acquisition that is underutilized by many teachers. This paper follows the process of one teacher as the instruction of the pragmatic speech act of requesting is integrated ...
Eric Scott
doaj  

Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching English Pragmatics in an EFL Context: Effects of Obtrusive and Unobtrusive Focus on Form Instructions [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Linguistics, 2014
With the aim of more emphasis on pragmatics and its inclusion in EFL classrooms, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of obtrusive and unobtrusive focus on form instructions on learners’ pragmatic performance of criticizing in English ...
Elaheh Zaferanieh, Abbas Eslami Rasekh
doaj  

A Lightweight Procedural Layer for Hybrid Experimental–Computational Workflows in Materials Science

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
We unveil a prototype hybrid‐workflow framework that fuses automatedcomputation with hands‐on experiments. Built atop pyiron, a lightweight, parameterized layer translates procedure descriptions into executable manual steps, syncing instrument settings, human interventions, and data capture in real‐time today.
Steffen Brinckmann   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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