Empowering Non-Specialist English Teachers: Self-Efficacy Enhancement Through Classroom English Proficiency and Collaborative Support by Shoichi Matsumura, Yushi Hinoki

“…It also explored sources influencing self-efficacy during the in-class implementation of what they learned in the workshop. …”
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LC-Protonets: Multi-Label Few-Shot Learning for World Music Audio Tagging by Charilaos Papaioannou, Emmanouil Benetos, Alexandros Potamianos

“…We introduce Label-Combination Prototypical Networks (LC-Protonets) to address the problem of multi-label few-shot classification, where a model must generalize to new classes based on only a few available examples. Extending Prototypical Networks, LC-Protonets generate one prototype per label combination, derived from the power set of labels present in the limited training items, rather than one prototype per label. …”
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Decoherence-free many-body Hamiltonians in nonlinear waveguide quantum electrodynamics by Aviv Karnieli, Offek Tziperman, Charles Roques-Carmes, Shanhui Fan

“…Here we show that by incorporating emitter arrays with nonlinear waveguides hosting parametric gain, we obtain a unique class of many-body interaction Hamiltonians with coupling strengths that increase with emitter spacing, and persist even for wavelength-spaced arrays. …”
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Fat and Moisture Content in Chinese Fried Bread Sticks: Assessment and Rapid Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Method Development by Zhuqing Xiao, Keqiang Lai, Rui Du, Yungang Shen, Xiaohua Sun, Yun Pan, Barbara A. Rasco, Yiqun Huang

“…FBS samples with minimum sample preparation (either finely or coarsely ground) were used for NIR analyses. Spectra of FBS were treated with different mathematic pretreatments before being used to build models between the spectral information and fat (7.71%–30.89%) or moisture (17.39%–32.65%) content in FBS. …”
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Quantization Effects on Zero-Dynamics Attacks to Closed-Loop Sampled-Data Control Systems by Xile Kang, Hideaki Ishii

“…We consider zero-dynamics attacks, which is a class of false data injection attacks utilizing such unstable zeros. …”
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Design, Synthesis, Molecular Docking, and Antibacterial Evaluation of Some Novel Flouroquinolone Derivatives as Potent Antibacterial Agent by Mehul M. Patel, Laxman J. Patel

“…Quinolone moiety is an important class of nitrogen containing heterocycles widely used as key building blocks for medicinal agents. …”
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Chemical Constituent and Antioxidant Activity of Clove (Syzygium aromaticum) Bud and Leaf Essential Oils from Bali by I Wayan Muderawan, Pande Putu Diah Suci Laksmi, I Wayan Mudianta, Ni Wayan Martiningsih

“…Thirty-six and twenty-nine constituents were identified based on GC-MS from the clove bud and leaf essential oils, respectively. Major classes of compounds are sesquiterpenes, phenyl propanoids, oxygenated sesquiterpenes, and esters. …”
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Association of Sociodemographic Variables and Healthy Habits with Body and Visceral Fat Values in Spanish Workers by María Gordito Soler, Ángel Arturo López-González, Pedro Juan Tárraga López, Emilio Martínez-Almoyna Rifá, Cristina Martorell Sánchez, María Teófila Vicente-Herrero, Hernan Paublini, José Ignacio Ramírez-Manent

“…<i>Materials and Methods</i>: We conducted a descriptive and cross-sectional study involving 8590 Spanish workers. …”
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Effects of 7E Instructional Model with Metacognitive Scaffolding on Students’ Conceptual Understanding in Biology by Habtamu Wodaj, Solomon Belay

“…The study was conducted on four purposely selected schools and four classes and teachers (one from each school) and assigned as treatment group 1, treatment group 2, treatment 3 and comparison group randomly. …”
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Polyp dimorphism in the Mediterranean Red Coral Corallium rubrum: siphonozooids are precursors to autozooids by Guillaume Loentgen, Scott K. Parks, Denis Allemand, Sylvie Tambutté, Philippe Ganot

“…Polyp dimorphism, the presence of distinct autozooid (feeding) and siphonozooid (water circulation) polyps, has evolved multiple times within octocorals (class Octocorallia). Traditional anatomical descriptions have been limited to early hand-drawn publications. …”
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Dominant Discourses About What It Means to Be “Good” at Mathematics: How High-Achieving Young Women Negotiate Tensions Within Their Evolving STEM Identities by Terrie Galanti, Nancy Holincheck

“…They reify deficit perspectives (often gendered, classed, and racialized) about who is or can be mathematically competent. …”
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Uterine prolapse and related factors in beef cow at the Besuki Animal Health Center, Situbondo regency, East Java, Indonesia by Kevin Mardotillah, Suzanita Utama, Erma Safitri, Herry Agoes Hermadi, Sri Pantja Madyawati, Djoko Legowo, Abdullah Hasib

“…The collected data were cross-tabulated and analyzed using Chi-square analysis to determine possible factors causing uterine prolapse. …”
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Ensaio para uma formação antirracista no Serviço Social by Carmen Ferreira Corato Costa

“…Por isso, avalia-se que a formação profissional pode impulsionar e expandir elaborações teóricas e práticas antirracistas que visem à preservação da vida humana como um direito inalienável, independentemente de classe social, raça/etnia, credo religioso, orientação sexual e nacionalidade. …”
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Travels, Translations and Limitations: Ambasciatrice Caroline Crane Marsh by Etta Madden

“…Two volumes she translated into English, The Hallig or, the Sheepfold in the Waters: a Tale of Humble Life on the Coast of Schleswig (1856), and The Wolfe of the Knoll, and other Poems (1859), considered alongside her poetry, letters and journals, provide windows to the values of translation as a venue of negotiation and cultural exchange. …”
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3D QSAR Studies of DAMNI Analogs as Possible Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors by S. Ganguly, V. Gopalakrishnan

“…The non-nucleoside inhibitors of HIV-1-reverse transcriptase (NNRTIs) are an important class of drugs employed in antiviral therapy. Recently, a novel family of NNRTIs commonly referred to as 1-[2-diarylmethoxy] ethyl) 2-methyl-5-nitroimidazoles (DAMNI) derivatives have been discovered. …”
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Optimisation of Airline Dynamic Multileg Capacity Control Problem considering Competition from High-Speed Rail by Qian Bian, Liying Song

“…., a customer of certain fare class arrives and makes choices from available alternatives provided by both airline and HSR. …”
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Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of GaAs Doped with Rare-Earth Elements (Sc, Y, La, Ce, and Pr) by Yongrong Deng, Chunhong Zhang, Xinmao Qin, Wanjun Yan

“…Such doping may provide a new class of materials for use in optoelectronic devices.…”
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Trajectoire mémorielle entre continuités et ruptures : l'exemple de la communauté grecque à Marseille au XIXe siècle by Michel Calapodis

“…The wave of new-comers from the Island of Chios precipitated some major changes in the Marseille Greek's social morphology: these individuals, members of the historic leading class (Archons) indeed turned their individual itineraries into a social crystallization process which helped them develop multiple belonging relationships. …”
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Corrosion behavior of Shape Memory Alloy in NaCl environment and recovery maintenance in Cu-Zn-Al sysytem by Andrea Brotzu, Barbara De Filippo, Stefano Natali, Laura Zortea

“…SMAs are an important class of smart materials able to recover after deformation a pre-imposed shape through a temperature modification. …”
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Variability in storm season intensity modulates ocean acidification conditions in the northern Strait of Georgia by Wiley Evans, Katie Campbell, Carrie Weekes, Justin Del Bel Belluz, Jessy Barrette, Drew Jordison, Chris Mackenzie, Jonathan Bergshoeff, Carolyn Prentice, Rosie Savage, Isabelle Desmarais, Bryn Fedje, Emma Myers, Kimberly Bedard, Alex Hare, Ian J. W. Giesbrecht, Colleen T. E. Kellogg, Zoe Sandwith, Jennifer M. Jackson

“…Such conditions were observed in the northern Strait of Georgia, on the northeast Pacific coast, where extreme OA spanned a 3-year period. …”
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