On Indexicality, Direction of Arrival of Sound Sources, and Human-Robot Interaction by Ivan Meza, Caleb Rascon, Gibran Fuentes, Luis A. Pineda

“…The relation between the call and the emitter is formalized in our framework of development of service robots based on the SitLog programming language. In particular, we create a set of behaviours based on direction of arrival information to be used in the programming of tasks for service robots. …”
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Identity and Socio-Political Self-Determination of the Ewe People in Ghana and Togo by Nikolay A. Medushevskii

“…In the context of the study, the author states that the problem of the Ewe ethnic identity formation has historical roots, since the Ewe, despite having a common language and cultural tradition, have always been disunited and are still characterized by a clan-tribal structure of self-government, which exists in parallel with the state vertical of power. …”
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FORMULATICITY OF THE INCOMPLETE SYNTACTIC FORM OF AN IMPERATIVE STATEMENT IN DISCOURSE by Iuliia А. Nenasheva

“…Background. Language units functioning in specific discourse conditions undergo desemantization and gramaticalization, which results in new discourse units forming. …”
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Navigating New Beginnings: A Study of State-Level Grant Funding Support for K-12 Refugee Education by Emily R. Crawford, Juan José Reyes, Oksana Kozlova, Lisa Dorner

“…Analyses identified that districts’ biggest priorities were to support: (1) family engagement activities, (2) English Learners’ education, and (3) student English language proficiency. Meanwhile, districts’ top three areas of funding allocation went to the pre-named categories of Student Services for Els, Professional Development for Staff, and Facilitating Partnerships.…”
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Diagnosis Profile and PTSD Comorbidity of Syrian Refugees Sample from Refugee Mental Health Branch Polyclinic by Ersin Uygun

“…Method: The Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) was applied in Arabic language to the Syrian volunteers who applied to the Bakirkoy Mental Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital (BRHSS) refugee mental health policlinic to get mental health service during 2017. …”
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Strategizing Soft Skills Resilience: A Holistic Approach to Mitigating COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Workforce Development by Mariia Vesolovska, Lyubomyr Shved

“…They help to be successful in the workplace or simply to be able to find a common language with anyone. They also have a crucial impact on the economy, as the acquisition of soft skills contributes to the more efficient functioning of enterprises and the economy as a whole. …”
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Partner Choices in Long Established Migrant Communities in Belgium by Emilien Dupont, Amelie Van Pottelberge, Bart Van de Putte, John Lievens, Frank Caestecker

“…We focused on the role of migration history and transnational links, culture (religion, language), skin colour and structural characteristics of the district migrants live in (mainly community size) to gain further insight into the partner choices of migrants in Belgium. …”
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Cognitive Pragmatic Rehabilitation Program in Schizophrenia: A Single Case fMRI Study by Ilaria Gabbatore, Francesca M. Bosco, Elisabetta Geda, Luigi Gastaldo, Sergio Duca, Tommaso Costa, Bruno G. Bara, Katiuscia Sacco

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A Client-Centric Evaluation System to Evaluate Guest’s Satisfaction on Airbnb Using Machine Learning and NLP by Mohamed Chiny, Omar Bencharef, Moulay Youssef Hadi, Younes Chihab

“…So, we applied natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to the reviews in order to find clues that could help us segment them, and then we trained two regression models, multiple linear regression and support vector regression, in order to calculate the coefficients acting on each of the 6 elementary scores (precision, cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, and value) noted on Airbnb, taking into account the category of customers who evaluated the performance of their accommodation. …”
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BharatSim: An agent-based modelling framework for India. by Philip Cherian, Jayanta Kshirsagar, Bhavesh Neekhra, Gaurav Deshkar, Harshal Hayatnagarkar, Kshitij Kapoor, Chandrakant Kaski, Ganesh Kathar, Swapnil Khandekar, Saurabh Mookherjee, Praveen Ninawe, Riz Fernando Noronha, Pranjal Ranka, Vaibhhav Sinha, Tina Vinod, Chhaya Yadav, Debayan Gupta, Gautam I Menon

“…BharatSim's domain-specific language provides a framework for the simulation of diverse models. …”
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Interacting with Compatriots in Russian Regions: the Experience of Tatarstan by R. R. Gimatdinov, I. R. Nasyrov

“…Work with the young people is the part of interaction with compatriots: youth forums and camps with the study of the Tatar language are organized. Attracting of compatriots to Tatarstan universities is carried out within Russian government programs.The work of strengthening business ties in the framework of the Tatar diaspora is conducted systematically. …”
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Caregivers’ experience of having a child with Down syndrome: a meta-synthesis by Xiao Nan Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Chun Yan Liu, Zhi Hong Ni, Hai Tao Lv

“…Results We found that feeding pressures, educational concerns, language difficulties, and discrimination and stigmatisation led to psychological, economic, and family stress in caregivers of children with Down syndrome. …”
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Exploring the influence of weather variability and climate change on health outcomes in people living with dementia: A scoping review protocol. by Camila Astolphi Lima, Sara Alsunaidi, Samuel Lowe, David B Hogan, Liz Dennett, C Allyson Jones, Shelby Yamamoto

“…No publication date or other restrictions will be applied to the search strategy. No language restriction will be applied in order to understand the impact of non-English studies in the literature. …”
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Use of GPS at research of roads & a vehicle by D. V. Mishuta, V. G. Мikhailov, M. V. Sirai

“…The purpose of this work are consideration of use of GPS for a research of roads and modeling of the vehicle/wheel machines (WM).Implementation for this problem of the measuring registering complex on a basis the Raspberry Pi 3/4 minicomputer, the GN-803G sensor and creation of the software in the language C/C ++ is considered.The obtained information about GPS and approaches of selection of necessary data from the messages on the basis of the NMEA 0183 standard submitted in the text ASCII form with the fields divided by a comma is analyzed. …”
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الملامح البلاغيۃ في كتاب أبي الحسن علي الندوي  "ماذا خسر العالم بانحطاط المسلمين" by Dr. Amin Ali, Safdar Ali

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Local media reporting and influence on political communication in the North of Kosovo and Metohija by Jakšić Teodora Lj, Marjanović Milica M.

“…The aim was to determine the influence of local media in the Serbian language from the North of Kosovo and Metohija in creating public opinion, the degree of trust in media reporting, as well as the existence of cooperation between political activists and professional communicators. …”
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Climate adaptation plans and “green jobs”: challenges for implementing a responsive, multi-skilled workforce in Worcester, Massachusetts by Varun Bhat, Sarah Strauss

“…We conduct this analysis with the help of natural language processing and qualitative coding in the City of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA using job data from Indeed and semi-structured interviews. …”
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Fostering communicative competence: A task-based approach to public speaking materials development by Ariatna Ariatna

“…The study was conducted in the English Language Department at a public university in Medan and followed the R&D model by employing a multi-phase methodology. …”
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Review of the Early Diagnoses and Assessment of Rejection in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation by Ravi Starzl, Gerald Brandacher, W. P. Andrew Lee, Jaime Carbonell, Wensheng Zhang, Jonas Schnider, Vijay Gorantla, Stefan Schneeberger, Xin Xiao Zheng

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Common variants in left/right asymmetry genes and pathways are associated with relative hand skill. by William M Brandler, Andrew P Morris, David M Evans, Thomas S Scerri, John P Kemp, Nicholas J Timpson, Beate St Pourcain, George Davey Smith, Susan M Ring, John Stein, Anthony P Monaco, Joel B Talcott, Simon E Fisher, Caleb Webber, Silvia Paracchini

“…Humans display structural and functional asymmetries in brain organization, strikingly with respect to language and handedness. The molecular basis of these asymmetries is unknown. …”
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