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London and the English desert – the geography of cultural capital in the UK [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Trends, 2016
People in the UK and especially the English have become culturally attuned to seeing and experiencing a geography of extreme inequality as normal.
Dorling, D, Hennig, B
openaire   +3 more sources

BOOK REVIEW The Crescent in the West: Image of the Orient in English Literature up to 1832

open access: yesHamdard Islamicus, 2021
Abdur Raheem Kidwai is a Professor of English at the Aligarh Muslim University, India, and Visiting Professor Fellow, School of English, University of Leicester, UK (2006-2016).
Mohammad Teisir Bin Shah Goolfee
doaj   +2 more sources

The politics of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) : Implications for citizenship and social justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A number of countries in Europe, including the UK, have adopted language and citizenship tests or courses as a requirement for granting citizenship to immigrants.
Green, Andy   +2 more
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Creating Welsh Language Word Embeddings

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Word embeddings are representations of words in a vector space that models semantic relationships between words by means of distance and direction. In this study, we adapted two existing methods, word2vec and fastText, to automatically learn Welsh word ...
Padraig Corcoran   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

International Perspectives on Parenting Support - Non-English Language Sources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study was commissioned by the DCSF, and began in October 2007. The project aimed to extend existing knowledge of ‘what works’ in parenting support beyond the English language international evidence that was comprehensively reviewed in an earlier ...
Boddy, Janet   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Playing in the academic field: Non-native English-speaking academics in UK business schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper draws on Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and capital to explore the ways in which working in English as a non-native language influences foreign academics' performance of academic habitus and the level of their symbolic capital necessary
Bourdieu P   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Word-boundary palatalization and production planning in UK English [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 2020
We analyze palatalization from /z/ to [ʒ] at word boundaries in UK English. Previous research has investigated palatalization in the context of /s#j/, showing that lexical frequency influences its occurrence across word boundaries. Palatalization by voiced coronal fricatives is less well-understood, particularly in naturalistic speech, which we study ...
Donald G. Dunagan   +1 more
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in Uremic Toxins From 1991 to 2024

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Uremic toxins are a growing area of research in nephrology, with significant implications in the progression and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the management of end‐stage kidney disease (ESKD). This bibliometric analysis aims to evaluate the global research trends, key contributors, and the impact of publications in ...
Yuh‐Shan Ho   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deaf-Accessible Parenting Classes: Insights from Deaf Parents in North Wales

open access: yesSocieties, 2022
Parenting support services and programs develop and strengthen existing parenting skills. However, in the UK and despite the 2010 UK Equality Act’s provisions, these programs are generally not accessible for Deaf parents whose first and/or preferred ...
Anouschka Foltz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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