Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study by Moisés Damián Perales-Escudero, Mizael Garduño Buenfil, Vilma Esperanza Portillo Campos

“… This paper aims to report the adaptation of a new version of the Scale of Implicit Theories of Reading Comprehension (ETICOLEC as per its Spanish acronym) with a sample of 77 randomly chosen English majors at a peripheral campus of a small university in the Southeast of Mexico. The ETICOLEC Likert scale was originally designed to measure the reading comprehension beliefs of middle school teachers of several subjects. …”
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Grand Challenges at the Interface of Engineering and Medicine by Shankar Subramaniam, Metin Akay, Mark A. Anastasio, Vasudev Bailey, David Boas, Paolo Bonato, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Jennifer R. Cochran, Vicki Colvin, Tejal A. Desai, James S. Duncan, Frederick H. Epstein, Stephanie Fraley, Cecilia Giachelli, K. Jane Grande-Allen, Jordan Green, X. Edward Guo, Isaac B. Hilton, Jay D. Humphrey, Chris R Johnson, George Karniadakis, Michael R. King, Robert F. Kirsch, Sanjay Kumar, Cato T. Laurencin, Song Li, Richard L. Lieber, Nigel Lovell, Prashant Mali, Susan S. Margulies, David F. Meaney, Brenda Ogle, Bernhard Palsson, Nicholas A. Peppas, Eric J. Perreault, Rick Rabbitt, Lori A. Setton, Lonnie D. Shea, Sanjeev G. Shroff, Kirk Shung, Andreas S. Tolias, Marjolein C.H. van der Meulen, Shyni Varghese, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, John A. White, Raimond Winslow, Jianyi Zhang, Kun Zhang, Charles Zukoski, Michael I. Miller

“…Motivated by the emergence of these new capabilities, the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the Departments of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and Bioengineering at University of California at San Diego sponsored an interdisciplinary workshop to define the grand challenges that face biomedical engineering and the mechanisms to address these challenges. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF EQUALENT TRANSLATION OF ONIMS FROM GERMAN INTO RUSSIAN by M. A. Chigasheva

“…The deonimization process has universal character and is common for many European languages. …”
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Bonding Effectiveness of Two Adhesive Luting Cements to Glass Fiber Posts: Pull-Out Evaluation of Three Different Post Surface Conditioning Methods by Lorenzo Graiff, Laura Rasera, Marco Calabrese, Paolo Vigolo

“…The dual-polymerizing self-adhesive universal resin cement achieved higher MPa bond strength values. …”
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Analysis of Torque Maintenance and Fracture Resistance after Fatigue in Retention Screws Made of Different Metals for Screw-Retained Implant-Borne Prosthesis Joints by Maria Beatriz Bello Taborda, Gabriela Sumie Yaguinuma Gonçalves, Cecília Alves de Sousa, Wirley Gonçalves Assunção

“…The aim was to evaluate the effect of different metallic alloys used in the manufacture of retention screws for universal cast to long abutment (UCLA) abutments for external hexagon (HE) and Morse taper (MT) connection implants, as well as of mechanical cycling on torque maintenance and fracture resistance through electromechanical fatigue testing by mastication followed by compression testing. …”
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EYE MOVEMENT PATTERNS IN WEB-BASED TASKS: THE INFLUENCE OF TARGET POSITION, INDIVIDUAL POSITIONING, AND TASK TYPE ON VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING (Update) by José Vasconcelos-Raposo

“…The sample comprised 20 university students (13 females 7 males, aged 18-44). …”
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The Development of Microhistorical Databases in Norway. A Historiography by Gunnar Thorvaldsen, Lars Holden

“…Longitudinal data is available for searching as timelines and in Intermediate Data Structure format from UiT The Arctic University and for searching at Histreg.no, which also caters for manual editing. …”
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WBS-Based Method in Teaching Management Information Project by Yuling Su

“…This paper finds that the improved association rule mining algorithm can improve the efficiency of teaching management practice in colleges and universities by more than 14.58%, which is an important reference value for college management informatization.…”
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Electroacupuncture for mild-to-moderate dry eye: study protocol for a multicentre, randomised, single-blind, sham-controlled trial by Yue Zhao, Guang Yang, Yun-Qiong Lu, Mei-Yan Li, Jue Hong, Yan-Ting Yang, Xue-Jun Wang, Xie-He Kong, Zhao Ma, Xin-Yun Huang, Yue-Lan Zou, Xing-Tao Zhou, Xiao-Peng Ma

“…The secondary outcomes include tear meniscus height, the Schirmer I test, corneal and conjunctival sensation, the ocular surface disease index, corneal fluorescein staining, the numerical rating scale and the Chinese DE-related quality of life scale.Ethics and dissemination The trial protocol and informed consent were approved by the Ethics Committee of Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (identifier: 2021–119), Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center (identifier: 2022SQ003) and Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University (identifier: 2022014).Trial registration number NCT05552820.…”
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A Study of English Informative Teaching Strategies Based on Deep Learning by Yaojun Guo

“…The experimental research results prove that the online e-learning service platform cannot only effectively meet the diverse and personalized English learning needs of university students, but also improve the learning efficiency of teachers and students.…”
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Clinical, Epidemiological and Therapeutic Characteristics of Patients Admitted for a Bronchial Asthma Attack by Juan Carlos Yanes Macías, Juan Camilo Díaz Ceballos, Mercedes Fonseca Hernández, Ileana García Rodríguez, Caridad Llul Tombo, Daimy Tio González

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to describe the clinical, epidemiological and therapeutic characteristics of bronchial asthma crises at the Paquito González Cueto University Pediatric Hospital in Cienfuegos, during 2015 and 2016. …”
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Exploring Students’ Perceptions of Learning Medical Terminology With Teacher-Made Flashcards Used Electronically by Iman Alizadeh, Farideh Ebrahimi, Afsane Dehnad

“… Although the production and use of educational materials have been accelerated, their quality and usability for students might have been overshadowed by the urgency to maintain the continuity of education at universities. Concerned with the provision of quality education, this study aimed to discover medical sciences students’ perceptions of the quality of teacher-made medical terminology flashcards used in university courses electronically. …”
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Revisiting the effectiveness of a performance decision tree-style rubric compared to a grid-style rubric by Yuichiro Yokouchi

“…Five raters (two English lecturers and three student raters) then scored 64 Japanese university students’ performances in four English-speaking tasks. …”
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Efectos heterogéneos y distributivos del Seguro Popular sobre la oferta de servicios de salud en México* by Curtis Huffman, Edwin van Gameren

“…Antecedentes: poco se ha escrito acerca de los efectos de la expansión del Seguro Popular (SP), el programa de salud pretendidamente universal -según el gobierno mexicano-, sobre los recursos humanos y materiales requeridos para satisfacer la nueva demanda. …”
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Soft Skills: Rankings in the Assessment of Entrepreneurs and the Participation of HEIs in Their Formation by M. A. Lukashenko, E. V. Alekseeva

“…The work provides recommendations to universities in terms of increasing their presence in the market of additional education in order to develop soft skills among entrepreneurs as a factor in increasing their competitiveness.…”
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ON VARIETY OF INTEGRATION PROCESSES IN EUROPE by L. S. Voronkov

“…He does not consider that an involvement of all countries with market economy into processes of regional integration, if they do not try to achieve certain political aims through integration, is the universal regularity in the globalized world. In these cases neither free trade zones nor custom unions can be considered as integration stages, but they continue to be the tools for further development of trade. …”
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Evaluation of Dental Students’ Sociodemographic Characteristics and Perspectives on Dentistry by Alper Kizildağ

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the sociodemographic characteristics of the students admitted to the Pamukkale University Faculty of Dentistry based on their Student Selection and Placement Examination score, to determine their reasons for entering dental school and to examine their expectations from the dental profession.Methods: We administered a questionnaire to the first-, second-, and third-year students of the Pamukkale University Faculty of Dentistry. …”
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Narracja parametryczna by David Bordwell

“…Tekst jest tłumaczeniem rozdziału Parametric Narration z książki Davida Bordwella Narration in the Fiction Film, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1985. © 1985 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. …”
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Contextualizing the challenges of education graduate students in the Philippines: translating needs analysis into strategic solutions by Nilo Jayoma Castulo, Arlyne C. Marasigan, Ma. Laarni D. Buenaventura, Jayson L. de Vera, Evelyn C. Bagaporo, Mark Ponce C. San Juan, Nathaniel S. Dalida

“…The study employed a descriptive quantitative online survey method with 198 education graduate students enrolled in the master's and doctoral degrees at Y University using Tinto's Theory of Student Departure. …”
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What was Killing Babies in Ipswich Between 1872 and 1909? by Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid

“…Our work makes use of the ICD10h coding system being developed to contribute to two projects: Digitising Scotland (University of Edinburgh) and SHiP — Studying the history of Health in Port Cities (Radboud University, Nijmegen). …”
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