How can brand equity for tourism destinations be used to preview tourists’ destination choice? An overview from the top of Tower of Babel by Francisco Dias, Lucília Cardoso

“…This paper describes a new research programme – Favourite Destinations Worldwide – that includes three interrelated innovative tools: (1) the destination brand choice model that allows a better conceptualization of CBBE-TD in the context of destination choice; (2) the Tower of Babel platform, a multilingual online survey for data gathering, to assess CBBE-TD of all destinations competing in the world market; and (3) the Destination Brand Gnosis, a propriety software for qualitative data analysis, transforming the meta-data into a system for constantly evaluating brand attractiveness. …”
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Memoryscapes of the Great War (1914-1918): A paradigm shift in tourism research on war heritage by Myriam Jansen-Verbeke, Wanda George

“…The added value of an international online survey completed by the World Heritage Tourism Research Network1 (WHTRN) in 2012 results from both the conceptual and interdisciplinary approach, questioning the interdependency of cultural, social, economic and political processes within the context of war memoryscapes, and the empirical data resulting from this multilingual survey.New tourism landscapes emerge in which the interests of national and regional governments, local and global stakeholders play an important role. …”
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A cross‐project defect prediction method based on multi‐adaptation and nuclear norm by Qingan Huang, Le Ma, Siyu Jiang, Guobin Wu, Hengjie Song, Libiao Jiang, Chunyun Zheng

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Public health policies for children and youth with special health care needs in OECD member countries and Brazil: A scoping review protocol. by Ângela Cristina Rocha Gimenes, Elenir Rose Jardim Cury

“…<h4>Method</h4>A scoping review protocol was developed as per the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) manual and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses-Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist, for application to the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, PubMed, and Embase databases;to theLatin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS)multilingual thesaurus; and to gray literature.The review will map the principal documents (irrespective of time frame or language) addressing public health policies for CYSHCN up to 19 years old. …”
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Prácticas de evaluación e intervención fonoaudiológica en niñas y niños bilingües hablantes de lenguas originarias by Carolina Salinas Marchant, Milena Alvarez Andrade

“… Investigaciones recientes han documentado escasez de fonoaudiólogas/os multilingües y falta de herramientas para trabajar con niñas y niños que aprenden más de una lengua. …”
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Acts of creativity in oral and written language teaching in secondary school: a handbook review by Олеся Любашенко, Ольга Драгінда

“…The authors offer a set of classroom-ready tools to equip pre-service teachers with the skills to design engaging lessons, unleash their own creativity, and inspire their students to engage in creative pursuits within the context of a modern, multicultural, and multilingual educational environment.…”
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Designing a Knowledge-Based Chatbot to Elevate Business Licensing Services in Indonesia by Husain Husain, Ridwan Afandi, Dana Indra Sensuse, Sofian Lusa, Nadya Safitri, Damayanti Elisabeth

“…The findings identified 8 key features expected in the chatbot, including real-time information access, problem reporting, business licensing guidance, a tracking system, personalized simulation, a feedback mechanism, multilingual support, and the ability to connect with a contact center agent. …”
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Contrastive meta-learning framework for few-shot cross-lingual text classification by GUO Jianming, ZHAO Yuran, LIU Gongshen

“…Extensive experiments conducted on two widely used multilingual text classification datasets show that the proposed method outperforms several strong baselines. …”
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Overcoming Hesitancy and Barriers to Care with Integration of Telemedicine in a Free Student-run Health Clinic by Vikki A. Krysov, Michelle E. Balshin, Elijah N. Azar, Karina Cernioglo, David Perekopskiy, Altynay T. Nurpeissova, Lucy Zhonglu Shi

“…Methods: Successful implementation of telemedicine was dependent on building trust with the community, providing multilingual technological assistance, and offering personalized support. …”
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Professional Language Training of International Students in the Multicultural Environment of University for International Relations by T. Glebova

“…The author goes on to analyze the specifics of linguisticand socio-cultural environment in Russian universities and its impact on international students stressing the fact that the educational environment at MGIMO-University is multilingual and multicultural. That explains the relevance of studying the quality of professional language training of foreign students in the sphere of international relations. …”
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Migrant Identity: Maintenance of Lithuanianness, Language Attitudes and Language Policy in Lithuanian Diaspora by Gribauskienė Skirmantė

“…Meanwhile, children in Norway are multilinguals, having more than two languages in their everyday repertoire. …”
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TurkMedNLI: a Turkish medical natural language inference dataset through large language model based translation by İskender Ülgen Oğul, Fatih Soygazi, Belgin Ergenç Bostanoğlu

“…This work demonstrates the effectiveness of large language models in adapting domain-specific datasets for low-resource languages, establishing a foundation for future research in multilingual biomedical NLP.…”
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The Turki-Language Diary of Insha Allah Khan Insha as a Literary Monument by Iskander R.Saitbattalov

“…Insha Allah Khan Insha was a key author of Urdu literature at the turn of the nineteenth centuries. His works were multilingual, and the languages he used comprised a local version of literary Turki. …”
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Linguistic Identity with Special Reference to Western Hindi Dialects by Pallav Vishnu

“…Therefore, the loss of one marker does not automatically entails the loss of cultural identity. Given the rich multilingual tradition of India where languages act as facilitators rather than as barriers in communication, one hopes that as linguistic identity. …”
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Trajetórias de produção de significados sobre o português e o inglês em experiências de migração estudantil no Brasil by Ana Luiza Krüger Dias

“…Considerando que os processos de globalização contemporânea diversificam a internacionalização acadêmica e, consequentemente, as políticas de ensino de línguas estrangeiras a ela relacionadas, esta proposta focaliza as experiências multilíngues de duas estudantes do convênio internacional PEC-G em uma universidade no Centro-Oeste brasileiro, a partir de dados oriundos de entrevistas realizadas em pesquisa etnográfica multissituada entre 2019 e 2022. …”
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Facilitating Large Language Model Russian Adaptation with Learned Embedding Propagation by Михаил Тихомиров, Даниил Чернышев

“…Purpose: Given the multilingual nature of the latest iteration of open-source LLMs, the benefits of training language-specific LLMs diminish, leaving computational efficiency as the sole guaranteed advantage of this computationally-expensive procedure. …”
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Navigating the Dynamics of Learner Absenteeism in South African Urban Secondary Schools: An In-Depth Management Analysis and Strategic Framework by Richard Moloele, Madikela T. Lekalakala

“…This research contributes to the broader discourse on language-in-education in multilingual contexts and emphasizes the importance of addressing reading comprehension challenges to improve academic outcomes and support learners’ cognitive development and cultural identity.…”
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Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Swahili Language Conversation Systems by Edmund V. Ndimbo, Qin Luo, Gimo C. Fernando, Xu Yang, Bang Wang

“…This study highlights the potential of Retrieval-Augmented Generation to advance conversational AI for Swahili and other low-resource languages, with future work focusing on optimizing efficiency and exploring multilingual applications.…”
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Classification of disinformation in hybrid warfare: an application of XLNet during the Russia’s war against Ukraine by Halyna Padalko, Vasyl Chomko, Sergiy Yakovlev, Plinio Pelegrini Morita

“…The study focuses on the use of transformer-based language models, specifically, XLNet, to classify multilingual, context-sensitive disinformation. The tasks of this study are to analyze current research and develop a methodology to effectively classify disinformation using the XLNet model. …”
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Prediction of sentiment polarity in restaurant reviews using an ordinal regression approach based on evolutionary XGBoost by Dana A. Al-Qudah, Ala’ M. Al-Zoubi, Alexandra I. Cristea, Juan J. Merelo-Guervós, Pedro A. Castillo, Hossam Faris

“…As the business world shifts to the web and tremendous amounts of data become available on multilingual mobile applications, new business and research challenges and opportunities have been explored. …”
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