Canada’s New Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Critical Assessment by Hugh Stephens

“…The trade-off for including China in the Strategy seems to have been to vocally demonstrate Canada’s anti-China credentials (to the US and the Canadian public) by talking tough in order to set the stage for more limited forms of ongoing cooperation. …”
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Graph-based vision transformer with sparsity for training on small datasets from scratch by Peng Li, Lu Huang, Jin Li, Haiyan Yan, Dongjing Shan

“…To overcome this low-rank bottleneck in attention heads, we employ talking-heads technology based on bilinear pooled features and sparse selection of attention tensors. …”
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Patio as a Constant in Language, Culture and Architecture: Meanings and Functions by O. A. Saprykina

“…The term patio is included both in the discourse of architecture, which provides an explanation of the surrounding space, studied and modified by humans, and in architectural discourse, i.e. a way of talking about architecture and construction in a particular situation. …”
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun’s Opera “Őzsoy” — a Cultural-Political Project and an Artistic Event in 20th Century Turkish Music by Natalia I. Degtyareva, Makhruza N. kyzy Dzhavadova

“…This is testified by the formal structure and the dramaturgy (a free, at times montage connection of the musical and the talking episodes, a through type of intonational development and a conditional “number” structure), and the style; at the same time, Turkish national features show themselves through the Western European foundation, which is especially perceptible in the rhythmic and the timbral aspects. …”
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Structural components of readiness of students of non-linguistic faculties for the realization of intercultural communication by Lyubov’ G. Morozkina

“…The article deals with the problem of readiness of students of non-linguistic specialties for the realization of intercultural communication in their future professional activity. We are talking about the competitiveness of graduates of non-linguistic universities in the conditions of the modern labor market. …”
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‘A Difference in Typical Values’: Autistic Perspectives on Autistic Social Communication by Holly E. A. Sutherland, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Joseph Long, Catherine J. Crompton

“…Nine autistic adults (4 women, 1 nonbinary, 4 men; aged 23-70) took part in an online, forum-style focus group over the course of two weeks, participating in discussions about how they signalled (dis)interest and (un)enjoyment during conversations; what their natural social communication behaviours were; what talking to autistic people was like, compared to non-autistic people; and anything else they thought researchers should know. …”
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The 18th-Century Ottoman Scholar Hafîd al-Nitharî’s Treatise on the Createdness of al-Māhiyāt: An Examination and Critical Edition by Murat Kaş

“…If it wasn’t, the assertion that it has only a philological nature would imply that the participants in the discussion had no idea what they were talking about and would mean that they maintained a sterile discussion. …”
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Examining the key factors behind foreign language anxiety (FLA) in online teaching of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) by Lađarević Maja Novak

“…Furthermore, the study establishes the underlying structure of FLA, with five factors positively correlated with overall language anxiety at the. 01 level of statistical significance: speech anxiety, evaluation and comprehension anxiety, online ESP classroom environment, anxiety of talking to native speakers, and lack of motivation for online class attendance. …”
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“Telling it in our own way”: Doing music-enhanced interviews with people displaced by violence in Colombia by Hazel Marsh, M. Teresa Amijos, Roger Few

“…This article offers some reflections on how talking about music, a cultural form linked closely with emotions, memory and identity, can provide a resource for better understanding the lives and experiences of others.…”
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Perceptions and practices related to menstruation and reproductive health in adolescent girls in an urban population - A cross sectional study by Anuna Vinod, Resmi S. Kaimal

“…More than 70% used sanitary pads and 99% of girls knew menses as a natural phenomenon. 80% of girls with good perception had no menses-related anxiety. 54% haven’t even heard of Pre-Menstrual Syndrome. 40% have inhibition talking about menses to their father or brother. Among girls with good practice, 87% had a good perception. …”
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The importance of teacher interpersonal communication as an effort to maintain students' mental health: a study of lerature review by Eli Sabrifha, Darmawati Darmawati

“…A supportive and stigma-free environment must also be created so that students feel comfortable talking about health issues.…”
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DIRECTIONS OF INNOVATIONS IMPLEMENTATION IN THE UKRAINIAN COMMERCIAL BANKS MARKETING ACTIVITIES IN MODERN CONDITIONS by N.S. Kosar, N.Ye. Kuzo

“…Using the concept of benchmarking, suggestions have been made on the implementation of innovations in the components of the marketing complex of commercial banks in Ukraine. We are talking about the constant updating of their product range, in particular, regarding the offer by banks of financing services for Ukrainian start-ups with the attraction of Western funds, as Ukraine has great prospects for the rapid growth of the venture capital market in the next few years. …”
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The participation of citizens to achieve smart people’s case study: Analyzing the use of online-based community complaint channels in Sleman regency by Helen Dian FRIDAYANI, Li-Chun CHIANG

“…Intelligence is not just talking about improving the level of academic education, but increasing awareness and awareness of citizens to be directly involved in the process of formulating government policies and programs in their cities. …”
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Smartphone Addiction among Medical Interns: Results and Implications from a Cross-sectional Observational Study by Bhumika Tekchandani, Sonali Sharma, Smriti Kayat

“…Addicted individuals reported more phone time (6.17 hours) than non-addicts (4.84 hours) and engaged more in talking, web surfing, entertainment, and social networking (p < 0.05). …”
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Pastorship in Byzantium in the letters of St. Theodore the Studite (late 8th — early 9th centuries) by Olga Izotova

“…Gregory the Theologian, and when talking about pastoral qualities works of St. Maximus the Confessor. …”
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Understanding and power of discourse by Victor Fityo

“…According to Foucault, each statement or concept implicitly comprises a number of connotations which during talking are likewise introduced into the context of a discursive situation. …”
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The Ne Bis In Idem Principle in Tax Law: European and Italian Frameworks by Stefania Lotito Fedele

“…The interest in the issue also derives from the need to understand whether the approach of the Italian legal system – or any other similar national order – can be considered compliant with European tax law and case law, based on the definitions of criminal and tax offences. Thus, talking about a European legal space means rethinking the idea of punitive power in a dimension that tends to be ‘solidarity-based’. …”
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The Role of Situation Criticality in Affecting the Effect of Cognitive Load on Drivers’ Brake responses: A Driving Simulator Based Study by Qingwan Xue, Xuedong Yan, Yi Zhao, Yuting Zhang

“…A dramatic increase in talking on the phone whilst driving has been seen over the past decades, which posed a significant safety threat on the whole society consequently. …”
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Interleaving between Ant Colony Optimization and Tabu Search for Image Matching by Ghusoon Basheer

“…The studies show that, in nature, the ant colony is able to discover the shortest paths between the nest and food sources very efficiently, such a deposit substance is called <strong><em>pheromone</em> </strong>during talking and another ants can smell it, if one of ants find a short path, it feedback on the same path and the value of pheromone on this path increases and a another ants gradually chose this path.(22) <strong>            Tabu search</strong>  is one of the best known heuristic to choose the next neighbor to move on. …”
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Concurrent Relations between Face Scanning and Language: A Cross-Syndrome Infant Study. by Dean D'Souza, Hana D'Souza, Mark H Johnson, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

“…We presented participants with two talking faces (one on each side of the screen) and a sound (/ga/). …”
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