Learning English in the ‘shadow’: Patterns and implications of English private tutoring in Vietnam by Lan Thi Huong Nguyen, Thao Vu

“…However, despite the prevalence of private tutoring, the research findings revealed a modest impact of such tutoring on student academic performance, evidenced by over 75% of the students reporting slight improvement in their communicative skills. Irrespective of academic achievement levels and backgrounds, private tutoring has been a widespread and normalised educational practice, reflecting the nature of social and educational competition. …”
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MODERNISING SITE-BLOCKING MECHANISM IN PROTECTING COPYRIGHT OWNERS CONTENT AGAINST DIGITAL PIRACY IN MALAYSIA by Mohd Syaufiq Abdul Latif, Nazura Abdul Manap, Nabeel Mahdi Althabhawi

“…Malaysia has incorporated site-blocking mechanisms under section 263 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 and section 43C(2) of the Copyright Act 1987 to combat this issue. …”
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URO: urología relevante y objetiva. Narrativa transmedia para la prevención del cáncer urológico by Ismael Cardozo-Rivera, Herney A. García-Perdomo

“…In addition, a web repository that would allow uniting all the proposals of the project. Fifty-one communicative products were made. Instagram had follower accounts and interactions that allowed the platform to be evaluated positively. …”
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The Internet Use for Health Information Seeking among Ghanaian University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study by Benedict Osei Asibey, Seth Agyemang, Augustina Boakye Dankwah

“…The use of Internet to communicate with young people in relation to their health must therefore be explored. …”
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Latest news from the bonobos: Pan paniscus myths and realities by David Beaune

“…This review describes the most recent findings: bonobos, chimpanzees, and humans ought to be part of the same genus (Homo or Pan) according to our genetics. bonobos have impressive cognitive ability to communicate with lexigram and sign-language, solve problems and use tools. …”
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Roles for Exosomes in the Pathogenesis, Drug Delivery and Therapy of Psoriasis by Yuchao Chen, Huazhen Liu, Yuming He, Bin Yang, Weihui Lu, Zhenhua Dai

“…Therefore, investigation into the mechanisms underlying intercellular communications mediated by exosomes in skin lesions likely helps design drugs for therapy of psoriasis. …”
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Trigonometric Regression for Analysis of Public Health Surveillance Data by Steven E. Rigdon, George Turabelidze, Ehsan Jahanpour

“…Even though assumptions of normality, independence, and stationarity are typically violated in the biosurveillance data, statistical process control (SPC) charts adopted from industry have been widely used in public health for communicable disease monitoring. But, blind usage of SPC charts in public health that ignores the characteristics of disease surveillance data may result in poor detection of disease outbreaks and/or excessive false-positive alarms. …”
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Defining the Structure of Physical Education Lessons in Secondary Schools: A Didactic Problem and Its Solutions by Yurij Vaskov

“…The study focuses on the components of communicative competence and the assessment of its levels. …”
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An Integrated Image Encryption Scheme Based on Elliptic Curve by Ijaz Khalid, Tariq Shah, Sayed M. Eldin, Dawood Shah, Muhammad Asif, Imran Saddique

“…This manuscript presents a new image encryption scheme that ensures confidentiality, user authentications, and secure key sharing among the communicating parties. Initially, the users share a secret parameter using Diffie-Hellman over the elliptic curve and pass it through SHA-256. …”
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Köppen–Geiger climate classification across France based on an ensemble of high-resolution climate projections by Strohmenger, Laurent, Collet, Lila, Andréassian, Vazken, Corre, Lola, Rousset, Fabienne, Thirel, Guillaume

“…To quantify the climate change and communicate about it in easily-understandable terms, we used the climate classification system of Köppen–Geiger. 84 climate projections bias corrected with two methods were used to calculate Köppen–Geiger climate types at an 8-km resolution for 30-year periods from 1976 to 2099 in France. …”
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Organizational sustainability: the role of environmentally focused practices in enhancing environmental performance—an emerging market perspective by Naveed R. Khan, Falak Malik, Mustafa Rehman Khan, Ismail Khan, Arsalan Mujahid Ghouri

“…Managers are suggested to regularly identify environmental issues relevant to the firm, communicate environmental requirements to suppliers, and implement environmental life cycle assessments to redesign products or manufacturing processes.…”
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Spontaneous Rupture of Hepatic Metastasis from Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma by Anil Rahul, Fernandes Robin, Hiremath Adarsh

“…On admission, abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan showed hepatic metastatic lesion with a rupture and hemoperitoneum communicating to the subdiaphragmatic space. This rapid progression of anemia along with presenting symptoms and CT imaging were attributed to diagnosis of spontaneous rupture of liver metastasis from pancreatic adenocarcinoma. …”
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Mechanisms and environmental factors shaping the ecosystem of brain macrophages by Silvia Penati, Simone Brioschi, Zhangying Cai, Claudia Z. Han, Claudia Z. Han, Marco Colonna, Marco Colonna

“…Understanding how brain macrophages communicate with their local environment and how the tissue instructs their developmental trajectories and functional features is essential to fully comprehend brain physiology in homeostasis and disease.…”
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Modeling the control of infectious diseases: Effects of TV and social media advertisements by Arvind Kumar Misra, Rajanish Kumar Rai, Yasuhiro Takeuchi

“…Social media and TV advertisements are important mediums to communicate people regarding the spread of any infectious disease and methods to prevent its spread. …”
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Functional Connectivity Analysis of NIRS Data under Rubber Hand Illusion to Find a Biomarker of Sense of Ownership by Naoki Arizono, Yuji Ohmura, Shiro Yano, Toshiyuki Kondo

“…This finding suggests that frontal cortex and motor related areas communicate with each other when the sense of ownership is induced. …”
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Research Ethics: Ideas and Practices of Russian Young Scientists by E. V. Popova, D. M. Matsepuro

“…As a result, it was revealed that the vast majority of young scientists are faced with situations of violation of ethical standards both in scientific publications and communications, and in the processes of organizing research work. …”
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Quantum Speedup of the Dispersion and Codebook Design Problems by Kein Yukiyoshi, Taku Mikuriya, Hyeon Seok Rou, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Naoki Ishikawa

“…Dispersion problems are combinatorial optimization problems classified as NP-hard, which appear often in coding theory and wireless communications applications involving optimal codebook design. …”
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Dynamic Rendezvous Based Routing Algorithm on Sparse Opportunistic Network Environment by Jiradett Kerdsri, Komwut Wipusitwarakun

“…An opportunistic network is a network where the nodes need to communicate with each other even if existing routes between them may not permanently exist due to the nodes’ random movement. …”
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A Comparative Study of HPV Vaccine Acceptability Across Global North and South Countries: USA and Kenya by Robert Nyaga, Adu Gyamfi Prince

“…These results highlight the most salient predictors of vaccination intentions among college students that health communicators can focus on when designing and implementing HPV vaccination campaigns targeting students in Kenya and the USA.     …”
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Terahertz Harmonic Operation of Microwave Fresnel Zone Plate Lens and Antenna: Frequency Filtering and Space Resolution Properties by Hristo D. Hristov

“…High-order harmonic operation of the FZP lens or lens antenna could find space resolution and frequency filtering applications in the terahertz and optical metrology, imaging tomography, short-range communications, spectral analysis, synchrotron facilities, and so on.…”
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