Enhancing the Achievement of Learning Outcomes for Foreign Language Learners Based on Gamification and Card Games by Yasmeen Alomair, Salah Hammami

“…This framework, developed through the integration of contemporary technologies used in e-learning systems and foreign language applications, encompasses agent technology and the microlearning strategy. …”
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Militanza, “impegno” e critica sociale dell’antropologia sulla base di intense etnografie. Le intenzioni trasformative e i giudizi politici dell’antropologo by Antonino Colajanni

“…The essay is devoted to an historical analysis of the progressive engagement of anthropological studies on the contemporary world with its difficult and conflictual situations. …”
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The Renewal of the Twenty Years in Theater: Revisions Based on The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska from 2008 by Katarzyna Fazan

“… The article results from the author’s participation in a project proposing interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary revisions of the interwar period (1918–1939), including the interwar period in theater. …”
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WHY DO THE UNIVERSITY GRADUATES SETTLE DOWN IN THE UNIVERSITY TOWN? POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR CITY MARKETING -THE CASE OF CRACOW by Sebastian Brańka

“…In the paper it was underlined that one of the key factors that contemporary cities need for their development is human capital. …”
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La selección artificial en el origen del pensamiento evolutivo y en los procesos de domesticación en el mundo actual by Arturo Argueta Villamar, Ricardo Noguera Solano, Eduardo Corona-M.

“…New and recent analyses, obtained from archaeological, anthropological, ethnoecological and ethnobiological studies, show that domestication processes continue with great vigor today, based on traditional knowledge accumulated by millions of peasant and pastoral communities in the contemporary world. This knowledge is highly relevant for the conservation of biodiversity and agrobiodiversity, the use of natural resources, biocultural heritage and the sustainable future of the planet.…”
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Short and stout as she was : relations inter-propositionnelles avec la structure « adjectif + as + sujet + be » by Bénédicte Guillaume

“…. + as” and the main clause deserves special attention, as it can be interpreted either in terms of a cause and effect relationship or of concession (paradoxical relationship); more importantly, the study of a corpus of about 240 examples (mostly sampled from the “Corpus of Contemporary American English” – COCA) confirms the intuition according to which the paradoxical interpretation of the relationship between the two clauses is overwhelmingly more frequent than the causal one (by a proportion of about ten to one in my corpus). …”
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Inspirational Leadership in Encouraging Academic Achievement in Vocational High Schools by Cahyo Widodo, Sukatiman Sukatiman, Fajar Danur Isnantyo

“…Recommendations are made for school leaders to implement transformational leadership practices aligned with contemporary educational challenges, focusing on equipping students with both academic and practical skills for the workforce. …”
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Toward a Methodology of Spatial Neighborhood Evaluation to Uncover the “Invisible Spaces” in Neighborhoods Built Through State Initiatives Between 1945 and 1980 by Hadas Shadar, Dalit Shach-Pinsly

“…In this article, we detail the ideological, economic, and professional approaches that informed the initial planning of these neighborhoods, the contemporary criticisms they face, and the methodology for objectively and comprehensively assessing the quality of their spaces to uncover the “invisible spaces”. …”
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High-Bandwidth and Energy-Efficient Memory Interfaces for the Data-Centric Era: Recent Advances, Design Challenges, and Future Prospects by Joo-Hyung Chae

“…This article presents contemporary approaches to improve I/O bandwidth, such as increasing the I/O pin count and data rate/pin, and to save energy in memory interfaces. …”
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The Confession of King Gälawdewos (r. 1540–1559): A Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Monophysite Document against Jesuit Proselytism by Solomon Gebreyes Beyene

“…In this paper, I will analyse a contemporary Ethiopian religious text popularly known as the Confession of King Gälawdewos. …”
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History and Philosophy of Science at the Crossroads of Doctoral Education’s Reforms: Polemical Notes by E. N. Ishchenko

“…The high quality of training future researchers, and focus on the development of human capital meet the challenges posed by the contemporary knowledge society.…”
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English-based feminative neologisms in post-1989 Polish by Agnieszka Małocha

“…The article presents their lexico-semantic typology and juxtaposes it with earlier typologies of feminine names, thus showing which areas of activity of contemporary women are filled with innovative nominalizations. …”
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Stoicism and Frankfurtian Compatibilism by László Bernáth

“… Although the free will debate of contemporary analytic philosophy lacks almost any kind of historical perspective, some scholars (for instance Zimmerman 2000; Salles 2001, 2005) have pointed out a striking similarity between Stoic approaches to free will and Frankfurt’s well-known hierarchical theory (Frankfurt 1969, 1971, 1988). …”
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Introduction: Intergenerational Transmissions of Infant Mortality using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) by Luciana Quaranta, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

“…It has previously been shown that infant mortality clusters in a subset of families, a phenomenon which was observed in historical populations as well as contemporary developing countries. A transmission of death clustering across generations has also been shown in Belgium, but it is unknown whether such effects are specific to the studied context or are also found in other areas. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…Based on digitized Swedish population registers between c. 1700-1950, the database contains micro-data that covers the agrarian society through industrialization and further on to the Swedish welfare state and contemporary society. It is now possible to study the profound processes of the second demographic transition using individual level data with a proper size population. …”
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Distributed Online Course for Educator Training by V. A. Starodubtsev, I. V. Ryashentsev

“…The general digitalization of contemporary society leads to a change in the use of learning technology in engineering education. …”
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MITAS – ARCHAJINIS NAIVUS MOKSLAS AR GYVENIMO VEIKSNYS? by Saulius Stelmokas

“…Saulius Stelmokas  Summary Contemporary science considers the myth as a jejune knowledge, specific for a primitive man. …”
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Memorising the Mutiny: Felice Beato’s Lucknow Photographs by Claire Bowen

“…The war pictures of Felice Beato are less familiar and contemporary interest in his work is concentrated on his later Japanese photographs. …”
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Fostering National Identity Through Sustainable Heritage Conservation: Ushaiger Village as a Model for Saudi Arabia by Silvia Mazzetto

“…As the Middle East experiences rapid growth due to its oil wealth, there is a pressing need to balance contemporary development with the preservation of its rich cultural heritage. …”
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Detection of Antibody against Helicobacter pylori in the Saliva of Patients with Dyspepsia by Robert L Clancy, Allan W Cripps, Diana C Taylor, Lois A McShane, Victor J Webster

“…There is a need to develop noninvasive assays to detect Helicobacter pylori infection in the gastric mucosa, Current dogma predicts that the presence of antibody within saliva should accurately reflect contemporary colonization of the gut mucosa. This study examined the clinical value of a saliva enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay (ELISA) for anti-H pylori antibody, compared with the serum ELISA assay, and found the sensitivity of the saliva assay was 89%, specificity 94%, accuracy 93%, positive predictive value 89% and negative predictive value 94%. …”
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