The Practicality of Dynamic Assessment in Reading Comprehension Strategies and Reading Motivation: Mirroring ESP Students\' Attitudes by Fatemeh Sharifi, Mehrdad Sepehri, sajad Shafiee

“…Following that, the sandwich style of DA was used to educate the EG to read psychological materials while the CG was trained in the traditional manner. After teaching 13 texts to the groups, the aforesaid questionnaires were administered again, together with the attitude questionnaire, to determine the impact of the intervention and to better comprehend the participants’ opinions regarding the use of DA. …”
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Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West by Michael Walonen

“…This essay focuses on Western regional novels of the late Cold War period (1968-1991), analyzing their manner of using the devil figure to variously challenge and/or reinforce mainstream conceptions of evil and come to terms with the meaning and direction of America at a time of crossroads and vast social transfiguration. …”
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A Highly Sensitive and Selective Colorimetric Hg2+ Ion Probe Using Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized with Polyethyleneimine by Kyung Min Kim, Yun-Sik Nam, Yeonhee Lee, Kang-Bong Lee

“…Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry showed that the Hg2+ ion was bound to the nitrogen atoms of the PEI in a bidentate manner (N–Hg2+–N), which resulted in a significant color change from light red to violet due to aggregation. …”
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Central Interleukin-1β Suppresses the Nocturnal Secretion of Melatonin by A. P. Herman, J. Bochenek, K. Król, A. Krawczyńska, H. Antushevich, B. Pawlina, A. Herman, K. Romanowicz, D. Tomaszewska-Zaremba

“…In vertebrates, numerous processes occur in a rhythmic manner. The hormonal signal reliably reflecting the environmental light conditions is melatonin. …”
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Design and Implementation of Single Axis Solar Tracking System: Utilizing GPS, Astronomical Equations, and Satellite Dish Actuator for Optimal Efficiency by Rizgar Ahmed Salih, Karzan Qadir Mohammed, Peshawa Osman Hama, Rawaz Othman Hassan, Barham Kamal Noori

“…The designed system is tracked in a discrete manner that can be adjusted automatically during the day related to each degree change of azimuth angle of the sun from sunrise to sunset. …”
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Hemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes, and Low Platelets, Severe Fetal Growth Restriction, Postpartum Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, and Craniotomy: A Rare Case Report and Systematic Review by Shadi Rezai, Justin Faye, Alexander Hughes, Mon-Lai Cheung, Joel R. Cohen, Judy A. Kaia, Paul N. Fuller, Cassandra E. Henderson

“…HELLP syndrome is an uncommon and traumatic obstetric event which can lead to neurological deficits if not managed in a responsive and rapid manner. The central aggravating factor seems to be hypertension induced preeclamptic or eclamptic episode and complications thereof. …”
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Dynamics of dRGT ghost-free massive gravity in spherical symmetry by Emma Albertini, Jan Kożuszek, Toby Wiseman

“…Furthermore it restricts non-relativistic matter so that the pressure is bounded from below in terms of the density and graviton mass in a manner that is at odds with a reasonable phenomenology. …”
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L’èthos : un articulateur by Dominique Maingueneau

“…However, as it appears from the unregulated manner in which ‘èthos’ interferes with concepts such as ‘posture’, ‘style’ and ‘authorial scenography’, its meaning still remains to be defined. …”
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Le « hors champ » du sexuel : les Anciens et les relations entre femmes by Sandra Boehringer

“…However, while sexual practices were often judged according to one’s civic position and self-control (along with other criteria such as age or the practice itself), it appears that a group barely studied group was perceived in a peculiar manner: women engaging in sexual relations with other women. …”
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Interaktion im wissenschaftlichen Fachtext aus kontrastiver Sicht. Untersucht anhand von deutschen und lettischen linguistischen Aufsätzen by Agnese Dubova, Diāna Laiveniece, Dzintra Lele-Rozentāle

“…Linguistic specialised communication can take place in various ways, and the ‘pure’ technical language formulations are combined with those used in everyday scientific language to enable interaction between the author and the addressee, as well as to direct it in a subject-oriented manner. Such interaction not only spans cross-disciplinary and cross-culturally, but is also culturally conditioned. …”
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Designing hydrogel for application in spinal surgery by Rongpeng Dong, Shuang Zheng, Xueliang Cheng

“…Hydrogels can be injected into target sites, including the epidural, intraspinal, and nucleus pulposus spaces, in a minimally invasive manner and fill defects to provide mechanical support. …”
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Unified study of viscoelasticity and sound damping in hard and soft amorphous solids by Hideyuki Mizuno, Kuniyasu Saitoh, Yusuke Hara, Atsushi Ikeda

“…However, we still lack a theoretical framework that can comprehensively explain them in a unified manner. Here, we propose a unified theory for viscoelasticity and sound damping which are significantly different between hard and soft amorphous solids but are ultimately determined by non-Debye scaling laws of the non-phonon vibrational modes. …”
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Extracellular vesicles—a new player in the development of urinary bladder cancer by Damian Kasiński, Kamil Szeliski, Tomasz Drewa, Marta Pokrywczyńska

“…The cargo carried by EVs can also induce angiogenesis, another critical element in the development of bladder cancer, and modulate the immune system response in a tumor-beneficial manner. In summary, the transfer of substances produced by tumor cells via EVs to the environment influences many stages of tumor progression. …”
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Transaortic Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Catheter Insertion through a Separate Saphenous Vein Graft in Patients with Severe Aortoiliac Disease by Faruk Toktas, Senol Yavuz, Cuneyt Eris, Suleyman Surer

“…IABP catheter was inserted indirectly through a separate saphenous vein graft anastomosed to the ascending aorta by an end-to-side manner under a partial occluding clamp and advanced to the desired position in the descending thoracic aorta and exteriorly brought into the subcutaneous tissues in the jugulum. …”
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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“…Using The God Are Not to Blame (1975) as an illustration, the paper contends, in a poignant manner, that the elements of Yorùbá Ifá divination, through oracular devices, well manifested in the structuring principles of Rotimi’s work. …”
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Tripartite organization of brain state dynamics underlying spoken narrative comprehension by Lanfang Liu, Jiahao Jiang, Hehui Li, Guosheng Ding

“…Our study suggests that the brain underlies narrative comprehension by switching through a tripartite state space, with each state probably dedicated to a specific component of language faculty, and effective narrative comprehension relies on engaging those states in a timely manner.…”
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A Modified Bat Algorithm with Conjugate Gradient Method for Global Optimization by Huda I. Ahmed, Eman T. Hamed, Hamsa Th. Saeed Chilmeran

“…The new spectral conjugate gradient algorithm is a modification of the Birgin and Martínez method, a manner to overcome the lack of positive definiteness of the matrix defining the search direction. …”
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A Novel Mutation of the Calcium-Sensing Receptor Gene Causing Familial Hypocalciuric Hypercalcemia Complicates Medical Followup after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: A Case Report and a... by Elin Rebecka Carlsson, Mai-Britt Toft Nielsen, Anne Mette Høgh, Rikke Veggerby Grønlund, Mogens Fenger, Louise Ambye

“…The chronically elevated calcium levels challenged medical followup, as calcium sufficiency could not be monitored in a traditional manner. Eventually the patient developed elevated alkaline phosphatase, a further increased PTH and a decreased DXA T-score indicating calcium deficiency and bone resorption. …”
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Comparison of Dexmedetomidine with Acetaminophen and Its Combination (Apodex) on Pain Control, Emergence Agitation and Delirium in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Adenotonsillectomy... by farzad sarshivi, negin ghadami, karim naseri, soraya sarshivi

“…In all groups induction of anesthesia were performed in a similar manner. In the first group, acetaminophen (15 mg/kg), in the second group, dexmedetomidine (1 µg/kg), in the third group, apodex, which is a combination of acetaminophen (10 mg/kg) and dexmedetomidine (0.3 g/kg) were prescribed. …”
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Multi-channel learning for integrating structural hierarchies into context-dependent molecular representation by Yue Wan, Jialu Wu, Tingjun Hou, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Xiaowei Jia

“…It leverages the structural hierarchy within the molecule, embeds them through distinct pre-training tasks across channels, and aggregates channel information in a task-specific manner during fine-tuning. Our approach demonstrates competitive performance across various molecular property benchmarks and offers strong advantages in particularly challenging yet ubiquitous scenarios like activity cliffs.…”
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