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Examining the word family through word lists

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2018
The choice of lexical unit has important consequences for L2 vocabulary research, testing and instruction. In recent years, the most widely used lexical unit has been the word family.
Dale Brown
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The Effectiveness of Text Message Reminder- Recalls on Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination Coverage in Georgia

open access: yesJournal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2016
Background: Routine vaccination against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), the main cause of cervical cancer, is recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for adolescents ages 11 to 12 years, yet vaccine coverage remains low.
Tamira Moon   +4 more
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Close to Beijing: Geographic Biases in People’s Daily

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2021
Inequities in China are reflected within state-run media coverage due to its specific role “guiding public opinion,” and with our study we contribute to the geographic turn in the Chinese context with regard to media and journalism.
Morley J. Weston, Adrian Rauchfleisch
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A corpus-based lexical analysis of subject-specific university textbooks for English majors

open access: yesAmpersand, 2015
This study is a corpus-based lexical analysis of subject-specific university textbooks which purports to explore lexical text coverage and frequency distribution of words from the Academic Word List and the British National Corpus frequency-based word ...
Konul Hajiyeva
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Text summarization model based on maximum coverage problem and its variant [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on - EACL '09, 2008
We discuss text summarization in terms of maximum coverage problem and its variant. We explore some decoding algorithms including the ones never used in this summarization formulation, such as a greedy algorithm with performance guarantee, a randomized algorithm, and a branch-and-bound method.
Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura
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Digital Libraries that Demonstrate High Levels of Mutual Complementarity in Collection-level Metadata Give a Richer Representation of their Content and Improve Subject Access for Users

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2014
A Review of: Zavalina, O. L. (2013). Complementarity in subject metadata in large-scale digital libraries: A comparative analysis. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 52(1), 77-89.
Aoife Lawton
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Towards the Establishment of an English Word List for Academic Purposes [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2017
Nagy (1988) states that vocabulary is a prerequisite factor in comprehension. This study aimed at creatingan English Word List for Academic Purposes (EWLAP).The corpus of this study was compiled from a corpus containing 6479 pages of texts, 2,081,678 ...
Reza Khani, Mostafa Saeedi
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Predicting Scenarios for Successful Autodissemination of Pyriproxyfen by Malaria Vectors from Their Resting Sites to Aquatic Habitats; Description and Simulation Analysis of a Field-Parameterizable Model.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundLarge-cage experiments indicate pyriproxifen (PPF) can be transferred from resting sites to aquatic habitats by Anopheles arabiensis--malaria vector mosquitoes to inhibit emergence of their own offspring.
Samson S Kiware   +6 more
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Effects of parental short message service reminders on infant immunisation coverage,timeliness and barriers in Nigeria: A quasi-experimental study [PDF]

open access: yesMalaysian Family Physician
Introduction: This study aimed to determine the effects of parental short message service (SMS) reminders on infant immunisation coverage, timeliness and barriers and evaluate the effects of sex on immunisation outcomes in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.
Hamina Dathini   +2 more
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Quantifying Online News Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Text Mining Study and Resource

open access: yesJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2021
BackgroundBefore the advent of an effective vaccine, nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as mask-wearing, social distancing, and lockdowns, have been the primary measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Such measures are highly effective when there is
Krawczyk, Konrad   +11 more
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