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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021 Essential oils are promising sources for producing alternative fuel, owing to their sustainability and obtainability. Thus, this article aimed to investigate the impacts of introducing mandarin-essential oil with diesel fuel on the engine performance ...
M.S. Gad +3 more
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, 2021 Southwestern Mandarin is one of the most important modern Chinese dialects, with over 270 million speakers. One of its most noticeable phonological features is an inconsistent distinction between the pronunciation of (n) and (l), a feature shared with ...
Wei Zhang (405) +1 more
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Humaniora, 2013 Teaching material is the important component in teaching and learning process, therefore, choosing the correct one will make easy the achievement of the learning objective. The Education National Standard Foundation (Badan Standar Nasional Pendidikan)
Sri Haryanti
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A Mandarin Tone Recognition Algorithm Based on Random Forest and Feature Fusion †
Mathematics, 2023 In human–computer interaction (HCI) systems for Mandarin learning, tone recognition is of great importance. A brand-new tone recognition method based on random forest (RF) and feature fusion is proposed in this study.
Jiameng Yan +7 more
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, 2021 Southwestern Mandarin is one of the most important modern Chinese dialects, with over 270 million speakers. One of its most noticeable phonological features is an inconsistent distinction between the pronunciation of (n) and (l), a feature shared with ...
Wei Zhang (405) +1 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Linguistic barriers and healthcare in China: Chaoshan vs. Mandarin
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background China has 129 dialects with Mandarin as the standard and Chaoshan as the major dialect of the Chaoshan region in Guangdong. This study aimed to describe the dialect competence and usage, communication difficulty, impact of linguistic barriers,
Dangui Zhang +7 more
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, 2021 While the language of Běijīng served together with Manchu as the court vernacular in the Qīng dynasty, the city’s dialect was not widely accepted in China as the standard for Guānhuà even in the late nineteenth century.
Richard VanNess Simmons
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Timing patterns of tone and vowel in Mandarin: Evidence from f0-F1 turning point synchrony [PDF]
JASA Express LettersWe examine timing patterns of tone and vowel acoustics in Xi'an and Standard Mandarin. Using f0 and F1 difference trajectories between rising tone 2 and corresponding high-level tones in the diphthongs /ai/ and /au/ modelled with generalized additive ...
Chenyu Li, Jalal Al-Tamimi
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The current study seeks to illustrate the relationships between child bilinguals’ mother tongue language (MTL) exposure and reading activities at home, children’s receptive MTL proficiency, and their socio-emotional and behavioral skills (SEBS).
He Sun
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