Online peer-tutoring: a renewed impetus for autonomous English learning by Luis Ignacio Herrera Bohórquez, José David Largo Rodríguez, John Jairo Viáfara González

“…Informed by data from questionnaires, a focus group interview, tutees’ logs, and records of their engagement with the model’s internet resources, researchers identified a change in participants’ conceptualization of autonomous learning and an impact on their self-directed practices rooted in the immediacy, accessibility, comfort and availability of resources that the online peer-tutoring model favors. …”
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A political world within the parameters of SABC politics by Susan Booysen

“…Exposure occurs through direct political participation, political discourse or through the mass media. …”
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Writing research differently by Margaret Malone, Jourdan Davis, Stephen Muecke, Karen Schwartz, Chantal Trudel, Liz Weaver

“…This themed volume explores writing research differently: both the social practices that might foster experimentation and participation and the semiotic innovations needed to articulate knowledge plurality in our published scholarly texts. …”
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The Attitude of Sports Faculty Students related to a Skiing Internship by L. Brabiescu Calinescu, C. Fortan, D. Ciocanescu, C. Albina, I. Nanu

“…The aim of this study was to identify the perception after the participation to a skiing training course of sports faculty students (76 subjects). …”
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Introducing the Citizen’s Income (Bürgergeld): Making Bold Changes by Alexander Herzog-Stein

“…However, to live up to its name, the citizen’s income must ensure genuine social participation for those receiving the citizen’s income.…”
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Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPARs) as Potential Inducers of Antineoplastic Effects in CNS Tumors by Lars Tatenhorst, Eric Hahnen, Michael T. Heneka

“…The molecular understanding of the underlying mechanisms is still emerging, with partially controverse findings reported by a number of studies dealing with the influence of PPARs on treatment of tumor cells in vitro. …”
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Consequências das Divergências entre os Estados no Desenvolvimento do “Espaço Schengen” da Europa by Abel Laureano, Altina Rento

“…But it is also true that integration has been hampered, from a certain time on, by the growing divergences of interests, strategies and factual conditions among the participating States. Closely related to the European Union, the “Schengen Area” has also been conditioned by the aforesaid gaps among States, staying submitted to the inherent uncertain - ties, inefficiencies and debates. …”
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Develop Your Public Speaking Skills: Tips for Beginning Speakers, Speech Coaches, and Judges by Marshall H. Breeze, Rick D. Rudd, Gregory T. Gifford, Catherine W. Shoulders

“…Developing effective public speaking skills is one of the most valuable benefits young people can derive from participation in 4-H, FFA, and other youth groups. This revised 7-page fact sheet pulls together advice from textbooks and references on public speaking as well as actual critiques from judges of public speaking competitions to provide guidance that is both consistent with accepted practice for public speakers and relevant to the problems faced by young speakers in a competitive setting. …”
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L'adaptation de la migration marchande en péninsule Ibérique au xviie siècle : entre résistance, fidélité et stratégie au défi de la frontière by Aurian Meunier

“…But new market players or intermediaries appeared and participated in moving around merchandise, legally or illegally, between the two crowns. …”
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Geohazard features of the Central Apulia by Elisabetta Campiani, Fabio Trincardi, Federica Foglini, Giacomo Dalla Valle, Elisa Leidi, Alessandra Mercorella, Domenico Ridente

“…Mass transport processes mobilise Pleistocene progradational deposits (made of sandy, partially lithified units), at the shelf edge, and/or open slope muds and/or contouritic sediment drifts; retrogressive failure may further affect the margin.…”
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Effectiveness of the educational training program for Japanese chief residents: A one‐year pilot study by Toshinori Nishizawa, Kazuya Nagasaki, Kazuki Tokumasu, Shunsuke Kosugi, Tadayuki Hashimoto, Kosuke Tanaka, Koma Hotta, Sho Isoda, Aiko Harada, Shinya Ishigame, Takuma Hata, Masayuki Nogi

“…This study evaluated the effectiveness of the program for enhancing the knowledge and behaviors of chief residents at the national level. Methods Six participants completed self‐assessment questionnaires at three points: before, immediately after, and 6 months post‐program. …”
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PRACTICE OF USING MANUFACTURING OUTSOURCING AND POSSIBLE SUPPLY CHAINS TRANSFORMATION IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY by N. Yu. Barkova

“…The structure of supply chains in the fashion industry has been considered, their main participants have been highlighted. The pros and cons of international production outsourcing for companies working in this industry also have been reviewed. …”
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Observing versus creating flowers: a review of relevance for art therapy by Ephrat Huss, Mitsue Nagamine, Michele Zaccai

“…The findings denote the strong embodied emotional connection of participants (changes in mood expressed in neural and physiological responses) to images of real flowers, as compared to the more cognitive reactions to drawings of flowers and cognitive stimulation of flower-like mandalas. …”
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Research on the wealth management fees of defined contribution pensions during the pre-retirement stage by Zongqi Sun, Peng Yang, Ying Wang, Jing Lu

“…Then, under this criterion, the ideal asset allocation for pension fund participants was investigated considering wealth management fees before retirement. …”
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„Uwspólnione” tworzenie sensu w interakcji dziecka z dorosłym by Monika Wiśniewska-Kin

“… This article demonstrates the results of the educational project “stimulating children’s thinking” carried out in some primary schools in a metropolitan environment (Lodz, Poland). …”
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Tariq Jaffer. Rāzī Master of Qurʾānic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 244 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-066351-3. by Muammer İskenderoğlu

“…Tariq Jaffer’s work, though it is partially a collection of articles, is important for bringing al-Rāzī’s methodology of Qurʾānic interpretation and its application to the selected verses to the attention of the readers.…”
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METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF SOCIAL REHABILITATION OF COMBAT VETERANS by Nataliya L. Klyachkina

“…More horrific consequences of these events can be seen in the usual "peaceful" life of former participants of military clashes and conflicts. Therefore, all the more relevant is the subject of psychological assistance to former combatants for their reintegration and rehabilitation into everyday life. …”
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Light design in children's play environment by Belova Marina V.

“…The article offers a review of domestic and foreign experiences in lighting design of children's playgrounds. …”
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Exploring the experiences of minoritised groups at life sciences conferences in the UK: new perspectives and actions to improve inclusivity in the sector [version 3; peer review: 1... by Tinu Cornish, Hayley Clissold, Ashlee Christoffersen, Janice Prentice, Kathlyn Wilson, Victor Penda, Ireena Dutta, Julian C. Rayner, Michelle Bishop, Saher Ahmed, Treasa Creavin

“…Attending and participating in scientific research meetings and conferences is a key mechanism for researchers to share information and knowledge, build networks, and establish relationships and collaborations to support career development. …”
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Flaubert, Beckett, Toussaint : d’un phrasé l’autre by Karine Germoni

“…But whereas Beckett voluntarily imitates Flaubert, to honour him, it is involuntarily at first that Toussaint, in his first works, does pastiches of Beckett and Flaubert, before attaining his own writing, an experienced writer’s style where there will remain, as we will see, remnants of flaubertian and beckettian phrases.…”
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