Marketing auteurism: the vanishing industry model behind Pedro Almodóvar’s success in the US by Jennifer Green

“…Limitations: It is beyond the scope of this study to fully address the impact of the rise of streaming services on the cinema box office or the market for non-English-language films in the US. The planned world premiere of the director’s first English-language feature film in the fall of 2024 also represents a new direction for the filmmaker worthy of its own future study. …”
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Assessment of level of knowledge and satisfaction of website about cleft lip and palate by Melissa Picinato-Pirola, Raíssa Gomes Magalhães, Marilia Gabriela Gonçalves Ribeiro, Thiago Pestillo Seles, Camila de Castro Corrêa

“…Methods This is a cross-sectional study, 13 healthcare professionals and 81 students from the areas of nursing, speech-language pathologist, medicine, nutrition, dentistry, and psychology participated. …”
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fMRI Evidence of Magnitude Manipulation during Numerical Order Processing in Congenitally Deaf Signers by Josefine Andin, Peter Fransson, Jerker Rönnberg, Mary Rudner

“…Congenital deafness is often compensated by early sign language use leading to typical language development with corresponding neural underpinnings. …”
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Enhancing Essay Scoring: An Analytical and Holistic Approach With Few-Shot Transformer-Based Models by Tahira Amin, Zahoor-Ur-Rehman Tanoli, Farhan Aadil, Khalid Mahmood Awan, Sangsoon Lim

“…Despite the impressive capabilities of generalized transformer models in various natural language processing (NLP) domains, their application to essay scoring has often fallen short of expectations. …”
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When spatial agency bias and the advantage of the first mention are in contradiction: Evidence from Czech, German, and Spanish by Anna Marklová, Renate Delucchi Danhier

“… Evidence from Art (History), perceptual psychology, and (psycho-)linguistics support the claim that in Western culture (or rather within left-to-right writing languages), people depict or visualize more important or salient figures to the left. …”
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A STUDY ON ACEHNESE EFL LEARNERS’ PHONETICS: PRONUNCIATION ERRORS IN PRODUCING ENGLISH CONSONANT SOUNDS by Fera Busfina Zalha, Fachrizal Lefiandi

“…Five EFL learners of English language department of Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh were selected as the participants of this study. …”
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PHONOTACTIC AND PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN KEMPO AND S>H KOLANG SUBDIALECTS by Salahuddin Salahuddin, Daru Winarti

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An Examination of EFL Undergraduates’ Writing Error Types and Frequency in WhatsApp Chat Messaging: Exploring Key Factors by Mohammad Owais Khan, Mohd Nazim, Ali Abbas Falah Alzubi

“… English as a Foreign Language (EFL) undergraduates' writing has consistently attracted the attention of educational stakeholders, notably teachers. …”
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User satisfaction with the nursing care quality by Erika Marcela León Revelo, Alexandra Patricia Abata Erazo, Julio Rodrigo Morillo Cano

“…The analyzed variables were: mood of the patient when it is not attended to quickly, rating of the care received, language used by the nursing staff, behavior of the nursing staff and aspects that the nursing staff should improve.…”
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Enhancing zero-shot relation extraction with a dual contrastive learning framework and a cross-attention module by Diyou Li, Lijuan Zhang, Jie Huang, Neal Xiong, Lei Zhang, Jian Wan

“…Abstract Zero-shot relation extraction (ZSRE) is essential for improving the understanding of natural language relations and enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of natural language processing methods in practical applications. …”
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THE WORD SOOTVETSTVENNO IN ORAL DISCOURSE: SEMANTIC FEATURES, DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS, AND PROSODIC CHARACTERISTICS by Aleksandra A. Aisanova, Diana D. Marchenyak

“…The material for the analysis is extracted from the oral and multimedia corpus of the "National Corpus of the Russian Language". 150 uses of the unit sootvetstvenno were analyzed. …”
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Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith’s Translation Style in The Freedom Fight and Treasury of Childhood Memories by Tolulope Ibikunle

“…The essay concludes by advocating for better circulation, promotion and expansion of the cultural, philosophical, religious, political and social ideas of Africans through translations of literary works written in English, French and other languages into African languages and those written in African languages into English, French and other languages. …”
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A Time Course Analysis of the Conceptual and Affective Meanings of Words by Dandan Jia, Ling Pan, Mei Chen, Zhijin Zhou

“…Words are the basic units of language and vital for comprehending the language system. …”
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Exploring ESL teachers’ experiences about ICT-based 4Cs skills: a phenomenological study by Raja Bahar Khan Soomro, Rifat Abbas Khan, Irfan Ahmed Rind

“…Abstract This study examines the experiences of university-level English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers in relation to the integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based 4Cs (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity) skills in English language teaching and learning. …”
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Title of Lithuanian Ruler Vytautas: When did Vytautas Start to Title Himself as the Grand Duke? by Loreta Skurvydaitė

“…At that time the international language was Latin. It was a high-rank diplomatic language. …”
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How to Measure the State of Flow in Learning? Testing of the Study-Related Flow Inventory on a Sample of Russian Students by Alina E. Ivanova, Ilya S. Denisov

“…The application of the scale in the Russian context highlighted the problem with the scale structure, which was previously shown by researchers from some countries when trying to adapt the scale into the languages of their countries. Overall, the Russian-language version of the study-related flow inventory can be successfully applied in Russian research practice.…”
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Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Katrien S. F. Colman, Janneke Koerts, Laurie A. Stowe, Klaus L. Leenders, Roelien Bastiaanse

“…Coexistent impairments in executive functions and language comprehension in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been repeatedly observed. …”
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In-Service Teacher Professional Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Innovating the Trichronous Modality of Delivery in Vietnam’s EFL Education by Tuyen Van Nguyen, Helena Sit

“…This study can contribute to shaping a forward-thinking approach to EFL education in an increasingly digitalized world by addressing challenges and identifying more practical practices in language teacher education.…”
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Health system adaptations for extreme heat: Protocol for an international scoping review of reviews. by John Richmond, Mark Clowes

“…<h4>Inclusion criteria</h4>We will include English-language review articles describing and/or evaluating health system adaptations for extreme heat. …”
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Hyperbolic Graph Convolutional Network Relation Extraction Model Combining Dependency Syntax and Contrastive Learning by Jinzhe Li

“…Abstract In current relation extraction tasks, when the input sentence structure is complex, the performance of in-context learning methods based on large language model is still lower than that of traditional pre-train fine-tune models. …”
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