Acculturative stress, loneliness, smartphone addiction, L2 emotions, and creativity among international students in China: a structural equation model. [PDF]
Gao J, Xu D, Romano D, Hu X.
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Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Abstract This article examines Iran's security and defense initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2024 and how they reflect the extraterritorial application of the regime's forward defense doctrine. In response to the long‐term erosion of its homeland defense capabilities since the Iran‐Iraq War of the 1980s—driven by infrastructure ...
Ariel Limanya Limbu, Ronen A. Cohen
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Language - a vital pill missing in patients' treatment: language barriers during cancer care through the eyes of patients and families. [PDF]
Birkelund L +5 more
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Trump's Transactional Diplomacy: Breakthrough or Breakdown?
Abstract The US‐Israeli war on Iran appears to demonstrate the perils of a transactional diplomacy that dismisses the rules‐based, liberal international order in pursuit of American dominance. Much of the growing literature assumes transactional diplomacy will be a temporary, Trump‐driven departure from traditional, values‐based statecraft. By contrast,
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
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The Soviet export of sleep therapy to the Eastern Bloc countries after the Pavlovian session in 1950. [PDF]
Popova K.
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USING COMICS IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
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Abstract The Iranian revolution of 1979 is generally portrayed either as the catalyst of sectarian polarization in the Middle East or, more recently, as the foundation of a pragmatic grand strategy shaped by geopolitical insecurity and learning forged by decades of war. This article challenges this binary opposition between ideology and strategy.
Alabbas F. Alsudani
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Bridging the cultural divide: Simulated patient encounters to enhance medical students' cross-cultural competences - A pilot study. [PDF]
Walkowska A +4 more
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THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
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Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
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