Unveiling obstacles in virtual English education: echoes from Vietnamese learners by Le Thanh Thao, Le Xuan Mai, Pham Trut Thuy

“…Consequently, this current qualitative study was conducted to investigate problems in English online classes in the Vietnamese context. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from six EFL students learning in a tertiary institution in the Southwest of Vietnam. …”
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Evaluation of Power Saving and Feasibility Study of Migrations Solutions in a Virtual Router Network by V. Eramo, S. Testa, E. Miucci

“…Among the green networking strategies, the virtualization class and in particular the deployment of migrating virtual routers can lead to a high energy saving. …”
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Efektivitas Konseling Behavioral Teknik Self Management untuk Menurunkan Prokrastinasi Akademik dengan Kovariabel Motivasi Berprestasi by Ni Ketut Chitra Wati, Nyoman Dantes, Kadek Suranata

“…Respondents in this study amounted to 221 students of class VIII SMPN 1 Tabanan. This study used a pretest-posttest control group design and the sample was taken using a purposive random sampling technique. …”
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Effect of Reduction in Thickness and Rolling Conditions on Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Rolled Mg-8Al-1Zn-1Ca Alloy by Yuta Fukuda, Masafumi Noda, Tomomi Ito, Kazutaka Suzuki, Naobumi Saito, Yasumasa Chino

“…The 3 mm thick rolled sheet exhibited fine (mean grain size of 2.7 μm) and coarse grain regions (mean grain size of 13.6 μm) with area fractions of 29% and 71%, respectively. …”
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Performance Evaluation and Microstructural Assessment of Industrial Solid Waste as Sustainable Additives for Expansive Soil by Muhammad Nadeem, Sami Ullah, Mohammad Arsalan Khan, Shanxiong Chen, Meshel Q. Alkahtani, Mohammad Mursaleen, Rania Salih, Dildar Ali, Li Jian, Jamal Ahmad, Saiful Islam

“…This study evaluates the performance and microstructural characteristics of industrial solid waste materials (Class F-fly ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag) as additives for stabilizing expansive soils. …”
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Inverse Emulsion Polymerization for the Synthesis of High Molecular Weight Polyacrylamide and Its Application as Sand Stabilizer by Mahmoud A. Mohsin, Nuha F. Attia

“…Polyacrylamides constitute a class of polymers that can entirely dissolve or swell in water to form a solution or hydrogel, respectively. …”
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Native Subterranean Termites: Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar), Reticulitermes virginicus (Banks), Reticulitermes hageni Banks (Insecta: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) by Nan-Yao Su, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Brian Cabrera

“…Its counterpart, the western subterranean termite, R. hesperus Banks, is found along the entire Pacific Coast ranging from southern California to British Columbia. …”
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Interweaving Story and Theory by Sona Baldrian

“…Drawing on the author’s personal experiences within the NGOized movement, the article explores the specific ways in which the political economy of gender aid has facilitated anti-feminist and anti-class struggle agendas, showing how close collaboration with the state and donor organizations has shrunk spaces for feminist organizing, impeding critical knowledge production and public mobilization efforts. …”
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New bispecific antibodies in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by Adrian G. Minson, Michael J. Dickinson

“…These agents can be safely combined with other immunotherapies and chemotherapy, and single-arm and randomised trial outcomes promise an expanding role for this class of drugs in earlier treatment lines. This review examines the clinical development of the CD20xCD3 bispecific antibodies in DLBCL, how the phase I and II trials inform their current use, and the key distinctions between the agents. …”
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2-Amino-1,3,4-thiadiazoles as prospective agents in trypanosomiasis and other parasitoses by Serban Georgeta

“…Although there are insufficient results to state the quality of 2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazoles as a new class of antiparasitic agents, many reported derivatives can be considered as lead compounds for drug synthesis and a promise for the future treatment of parasitosis and provide a valid strategy for the development of potent antiparasitic drugs.…”
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Adverse Effects of Proton Pump Inhibitors on Platelet Count: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Subhajit Mukherjee, Tanima Jana, Jen-Jung Pan

“…Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are the most effective and preferred class of drugs used to treat peptic ulcer disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and other diseases associated with increased production of gastric acid. …”
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Some Aspects of Sensitivity Analysis in Variational Data Assimilation for Coupled Dynamical Systems by Sergei Soldatenko, Peter Steinle, Chris Tingwell, Denis Chichkine

“…For simple enough low-order models, the computational cost is minor and therefore models of this class are used as simple test instruments to emulate more complex systems. …”
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Cooking with confidence for autistic youth: outcomes from a pilot program evaluation model by Mi-Yeet Wong, Conner Carlton, Shelby Paul, Jonathan Deutsch, Rachel Sherman, Brandy-Joe Milliron, Nicole Farmer, Rachel Hingst, Claire Richardson, Lindsay Shea

“…CWC is a community-based educational program designed to help autistic young adults develop independent living skills and promote health through hands-on cooking classes. Recognizing the need for more opportunities for autistic individuals to practice these skills, the program was created through public and private partnerships. …”
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A Numerical Study of Railway Ballast Subjected to Direct Shearing Using the Discrete Element Method by Hongyi Zhao, Jing Chen

“…Railway ballast is a coarse granular material used to carry train loads and provide drainage for the rail tracks. …”
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Theoretical understanding of gradients of spike functions as boolean functions by DongHyung Yoo, Doo Seok Jeong

“…Unfortunately, the error-backpropagation algorithm with this gradient function fails to outperform popularly employed surrogate gradients, which may arise from the narrow peak of the gradient function and consequent potential undershoot and overshoot around the spiking threshold with coarse timesteps. We provide theoretical grounds of this hypothesis.…”
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A Smoothed l0-Norm and l1-Norm Regularization Algorithm for Computed Tomography by Jiehua Zhu, Xiezhang Li

“…The nonmonotone alternating direction algorithm (NADA) was recently proposed for effectively solving a class of equality-constrained nonsmooth optimization problems and applied to the total variation minimization in image reconstruction, but the reconstructed images suffer from the artifacts. …”
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Integral Representation of Functions of Bounded Variation by Z. Lipcsey, I. M. Esuabana, J. A. Ugboh, I. O. Isaac

“…With Bainov’s introduction of impulsive differential equations having solutions of bounded variation, this class of functions had eventually entered into the theory of differential equations. …”
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Digital Storytelling: Boosting Literacy Practices in Students at A1-Level by Pedro Alejandro González Mesa

“… This article describes the implementation of digital storytelling in an English language class of eleventh graders at a private school in Mosquera, Colombia. …”
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No Victor, No Vanquish in the Nigerian Civil War: Analysis of the Recurrent Biafra Separatist Agitation in Southeastern Nigeria by Rotimi Adeforiti, Sunday Owen Abang

“…While the internal factors are particular to the country and include military response, corruption, fear of dominance, marginalization, and failed nationalism, external factors include the proliferation of ammunition and the interest of the power blocs. In the class of factors, the elite remains necessary because it is an essential feature of human organization. …”
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Educação, Inclusão Precária e a Politecnia como Estratégia Política dos Trabalhadores by Jacqueline Aline Botelho Lima

“…Neste contexto, a educação profissional é disputada por diferentes projetos de classe: os setores dominantes, representados pelo Sistema S e pelo agronegócio, defendem uma formação estritamente técnica, e os trabalhadores, representados por Movimentos Sociais como o MST nos apresentam um projeto de educação tecnológica, articulado à cultura e à ciência, cuja síntese encontra-se nas formulações de Marx sobre Politecnia. …”
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