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Lexical Coverage and Readability of Science Textbooks for English-Medium Instruction Secondary Schools in Hong Kong

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
Textbooks are an important source of knowledge input on which the transmission of academic knowledge often relies, especially in the early stages of academic learning.
Jingjing Hu   +2 more
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Measuring the vocabulary burden of popular English songs

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2017
This study measured the vocabulary burden of popular English songs to determine what vocabulary is needed to understand 95% and 98% of the words in songs. The researcher analyzed the vocabulary in 2,175 songs, which consisted of 678,309 tokens.
Rick Romanko
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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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Search and Learn: Improving Semantic Coverage for Data-to-Text Generation

open access: yesProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Data-to-text generation systems aim to generate text descriptions based on input data (often represented in the tabular form). A typical system uses huge training samples for learning the correspondence between tables and texts. However, large training sets are expensive to obtain, limiting the applicability of these approaches in real-world scenarios.
Shailza Jolly   +3 more
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Is the vocabulary level of the reading section of the TOEFL internet-based test beyond the lexical level of Japanese senior high school students?

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014
The main goal of the present study is to answer the question of whether the lexical level of the reading section of the TOEFL Internet-based Test (TOEFL iBT) is beyond the vocabulary level of Japanese senior high school graduates.
Masaya Kaneko
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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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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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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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