What motivates older adult learners in Poland to study foreign languages in later life? by Agata Słowik-Krogulec

“…Three major findings were identified in this study: (a) older adults take up learning languages in later life in order to communicate while travelling (also with their families who live abroad); to socialise and get to know new people and cultures; to maintain intellectual abilities and to develop cognitively; (b) the instructor and other learners are key components in improving older adults’ motivation; and (c) stereotypes related to senescence and to Foreign Language Geragogy should be challenged to make classes relevant and interesting for this age group.…”
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Sparse Blossom: correcting a million errors per core second with minimum-weight matching by Oscar Higgott, Craig Gidney

“…In this work, we introduce a fast implementation of the minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM) decoder, the most widely used decoder for several important families of quantum error correcting codes, including surface codes. …”
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L’accord de proximité en genre : quelques considérations diachroniques by Anne Abeillé, Aixiu An, Yingqin Hu

“…Looking at the evolution in Frantext database since 1550, we show that (feminine) proximate agreement is persistent in two cases: determiner agreement (certaines branches et problèmes “certain.F.PL branch.F.PL and problem.M.PL”) and attributive adjective agreement (les us et coutumes familiales “the habit.M.PL and custom.F.PL familial.F.PL”). Feminine proximate agreement is dominant for determiners and prenominal adjectives, and is coming back for postnominal adjectives, while it has disappeared for predicative adjectives (son bec et ses jambes sont longues “his beak.M.SG and his leg.F.PL are long.F.PL”). …”
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The Redox System in C. elegans, a Phylogenetic Approach by Andrew D. Johnston, Paul R. Ebert

“…We then use maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis to compare protein families between C. elegans and the other organisms to facilitate future research into the genetics of redox biology.…”
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Exercise-Induced Rhabdomyolysis and Stress-Induced Malignant Hyperthermia Events, Association with Malignant Hyperthermia Susceptibility, and RYR1 Gene Sequence Variations by Antonella Carsana

“…Mutations in RYR1 gene have been found in about 70% of MH families. The RYR1 gene encodes the skeletal muscle calcium release channel of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, commonly known as ryanodine receptor type 1 (RYR1). …”
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Les notables voconces au Haut-Empire by Bernard Rémy, Nicolas Mathieu

“…Rare literary sources and epigraphy have enabled us to list 178 Vocontii “notables” and members of their families. According to their dignitas they can be divided into five different hierarchical groups: honestiores, priests (except flamines and flaminicae of the imperial cult), local honorati, municipal honorati and “imperial” honorati. …”
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The Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Mortality in Northern Norway during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

“…The risk of an infant death occurring among the children of daughters from such ‘high risk’ families was at least 30 per cent higher than that amongst infants born to the daughters of mothers who had experienced zero infant deaths.…”
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Plasma Membrane Transporters in Modern Liver Pharmacology by Jose J. G. Marin

“…Several members of the superfamilies of solute carriers (SLC) and ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins, with a minor participation of other families of transporters, account for the uptake and efflux, respectively, of endobiotic and xenobiotic compounds across the basolateral and apical membranes of hepatocytes and cholangiocytes. …”
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Impact of Hypoxia on the Community Structure of Benthic Macroinvertebrates of Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria by Nkwoji Joseph Ahamefula

“…A total of 3,159 individuals comprising three phyla, five classes, nineteen families and twenty three species were recorded. Iddo I, Iddo II, Ogudu and Agboyi study stations recorded very low individuals, but relatively high number of polychaetes. …”
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Przedszkola w debacie polityczno-oświatowej Niemiec. W stronę edukacji, opieki i wychowania by Inetta Nowosad

“…The analysis of educational reports and formal-legal guidelines on both federal and state levels is meant to illustrate the range of the introduced changes and the specifics of the German reform, which is perceived as an interlinked network and as cooperation for the sake of children and their families. …”
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The Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Mortality in Northern Norway during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

“…The risk of an infant death occurring among the children of daughters from such ‘high risk’ families was at least 30 per cent higher than that amongst infants born to the daughters of mothers who had experienced zero infant deaths.…”
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The Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Mortality in Northern Norway during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

“…The risk of an infant death occurring among the children of daughters from such ‘high risk’ families was at least 30 per cent higher than that amongst infants born to the daughters of mothers who had experienced zero infant deaths. …”
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Indentured impressions: The embodied materiality of artistic practices in Mauritius by Baishali Ghosh

“…The first part of the text discusses how the artists appropriate colonial records, familial objects and sensorial evidences in executing their works and articulating their methods; it argues that the artistic praxes deliberately process embodied indentured labour histories. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…The value of investments in human capital and other intra-familial transfers is so important that they frequently reverse the results of a more narrow public policy analysis. …”
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Analysis of coral reef health based on the abundance of herbivorous reef fish in the waters of Krueng Raya, Aceh Besar by Ulfah Maria, Cindy Safitri Arsa, Andianto Dika, Zahra Avifah, Miswari Nur

“…The results showed that the abundance of herbivorous reef fish ranged from 1597.92 ind/ha to 5918.18 ind/ha, with a total of families, 12 genera, and 25 species of herbivorous reef fish identified. …”
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Electromagnetic Waves Dispersion and Interaction of an Annular Beam-Ion Channel System in Plasma Waveguide by Jixiong Xiao, Zhijiang Wang, Jun Chen, Changhai Liu

“…The dispersion relations for two families of propagating modes, including the electrostatic and transverse magnetic modes, are derived. …”
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Evolution of the C-Type Lectin-Like Receptor Genes of the DECTIN-1 Cluster in the NK Gene Complex by Susanne Sattler, Hormas Ghadially, Erhard Hofer

“…Pattern recognition receptors are crucial in initiating and shaping innate and adaptive immune responses and often belong to families of structurally and evolutionarily related proteins. …”
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Butterfly Species Richness in Selected West Albertine Rift Forests by Patrice Kasangaki, Anne M. Akol, Gilbert Isabirye Basuta

“…A total of 630 butterfly species were collected in 5 main families. The different species fell into 7 ecological groupings with the closed forest group having the most species and the swamp/wetland group with the fewest number of species. …”
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Providers' Perceptions of Challenges in Obstetrical Care for Somali Women by Jalana N. Lazar, Crista E. Johnson-Agbakwu, Olga I. Davis, Michele P.-L. Shipp

“…Providers expressed frustration with what they perceived as Somali patients' resistance to obstetrical interventions and disappointment with a perception of mistrust from patients and their families. Conclusion. Improving the clinical encounter for both patients and providers entails establishing effective dialogue, enhancing clinical and cultural training of providers, improving health literacy, and developing trust through community engagement.…”
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SOD1 Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Regulation and Its Potential Implications in ALS by Pamela Milani, Stella Gagliardi, Emanuela Cova, Cristina Cereda

“…The discovery that mutations in SOD1 gene cause a subset of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) has attracted great attention, and studies to date have been mainly focused on discovering mutations in the coding region and investigation at protein level. …”
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