Language awareness as a prerequisite of literacy skills by Anna Kucharská, Klára Špačková, Martina Šmejkalová

“…It is based on data from the research project Key Literacy Skills for Primary School Pupils – a diagnostic battery, in which 881 elementary grade pupils (Grade 1 – Grade 5) participated. The statistical parameters of the new tool are presented and the relations between the Language Awareness Test, decoding skills, and oral and silent reading comprehension are analysed. …”
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Teaching Persian to Non-Iranian Language Learners: Teachers' attitude towards the use of literary texts by Amirreza Vakilifard, Mohammad Taghi Rad

“…A 45-item questionnaire was used for this purpose. The participants in the survey were 26 teachers of the Persian language. …”
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Algunas consideraciones acerca de cómo concebir estrategias de educación estética en la Educación Médica Superior by Lian Roque Roque, Carlos Lázaro Nodals García, Blanca Garcés Garcés, Ana María Molina Gómez

“…La formación de valores estéticos es un imperativo que emana de las directrices que el gobierno revolucionario ha expuesto en documentos programáticos como la Sexta Conferencia Nacional del Partido y pronunciamientos del Comité Central. Es una tarea pedagógica que tributa a la construcción de un socialismo sostenible. …”
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Association between Serum Uric Acid Level and Metabolic Syndrome and Its Sex Difference in a Chinese Community Elderly Population by Miao Liu, Yao He, Bin Jiang, Lei Wu, Shanshan Yang, Yiyan Wang, Xiaoying Li

“…A two-stage stratified clustering sampling method was used and 2102 elderly participants were included. Results. The prevalence of hyperuricemia and MetS was 16.7% and 59.1%, respectively. …”
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Mentoring: Helping Youth Make a Difference in STEM by Angelia Reid-Griffin

“…Mentoring is a life-long approach to building positive, supportive relationships, self-confidence and increasing academic performance. In this article, I present how a college-based summer camp, designed to engage youth in increasing interests in STEM, Healthcare, and Teacher education, by helping youth build self-confidence and career interests through a Vertical Mentoring model. …”
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Rendre invisible – L’infographie et la fin des Médias optiques by Ricardo Cedeño Montaña, Christina Vagt

“…L’article relit la thèse de Kittler selon laquelle l’avènement des médias optiques constituerait la fin des beaux-arts à partir d’un texte contemporain aux Médias optiques. …”
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Flipped Classroom for Doctoral Students: Evaluating the Effectivness by K. N. Volchenkova

“…The course was piloted in September-May, 2017/2018 academic year with 197 doctoral students participating. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the flipped classroom was made. …”
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Localization of Accessory Pathways in Patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome Using Cross-Recurrence Plot of Precordial Leads by Sakineh Yahyazadeh, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Ali Motie Nasrabadi, Alireza Ghorbani Sharif

“…This study was to develop a novel semi-automatic localization of AP in patients with WPW syndrome, using features selected from the cross-recurrence plot (CRP) of consecutive precordial leads on ECG. The study participants comprised of 31 patients with WPW syndrome (aged 8-69, with the mean age of 31.19±14.69, 32.3% female), receiving successful ablation therapy during the first session. …”
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Women’s development organisations in rural areas of Tunisia: rethinking support to strengthen their autonomy by Hanafi Anissa, Mazhoud Houda, Chemak Fraj, Faysse Nicolas, Kharroubi Fatma

“…In a workshop in which presidents of these organisations, their members, and administrative support staff took part, participants pointed out that the members’ technical and management skills, their willingness and ability to organise collective action play a key role in ensuring the autonomy of the organisations. …”
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Epilepsy and brain health: a large prospective cohort study by Dan-Dan Zhang, Zi-Yi Wang, Ya-Ru Zhang, Pei-Yang Gao, Wei Zhang, Yan Fu, Hao-Chen Chi, Li-Yun Ma, Yi-Jun Ge, Xiao-Yu He, Jia You, Wei Cheng, Jian-Feng Feng, Lan Tan, Jin-Tai Yu

“…Methods The study was based on clinical diagnostic and test data from 426,527 participants in the UK Biobank, of whom 3,251 were diagnosed with epilepsy at baseline. …”
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Evaluation of Current Anthropometric Measurements to Detect Abdominal Obesity in Older Adults by Uğur Kalan, Ferhat Arık

“…The best three anthropometric indicators that estimating the fat ratio in participants were; BMI (r=0.718, p…”
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Evaluation of Faecal Microbiota Following Probiotics in Infants of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Trial: Protocol for Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trial by Gayatri Athalye-Jape, Chandra Prakash Rath, Harshad Panchal, Archita Mishra, Dorothy Graham, Sanjay Patole

“…To best of our knowledge, no study has evaluated the effects of probiotics on gut dysbiosis in the infants of mothers with GDM. (2) Methods: This study will be a single-centre, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial enrolling sixty neonates born after 35 weeks of gestation to mothers with GDM. The participants will be randomly assigned to receive either a triple-strain probiotic or a placebo for four months. …”
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Impact of forced migration on the sustainable development of rural territories by V. Shcherbak, I. Brizgan, V. Chevhanova, L. Svistun, O. Hryhoryeva

“…As a result of the implementation of the proposed conflict resolution mechanism between refugees and host communities, the budget of the rural areas of the first cluster increased by 18%, the second cluster by 14.5%, the third cluster by 13%, the fourth by 8%, refugee participation by 30%.…”
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Characterization of isopropanol-enhanced Caesalpinia bonduc biodiesel blends: A sustainable strategy for decarbonization by D. Christopher selvam, Yuvarajan Devarajan, T. Raja

“…The resultant biodiesel formulations were augmented with isopropanol at proportions of 10% and 20% to enhance combustion efficiency and emissions characteristics.Experimental assessment of the formulations indicated notable enhancements in Brake Thermal Efficiency (BTE) alongside reductions in Brake-Specific Fuel Consumption (BSFC), coupled with substantial declines in carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC), and particulate emissions when juxtaposed with pure biodiesel. …”
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The Relationship Between Nomophobia and Boredom Intolerance in the Use of Social Media among Generation Z Muslim Students by Muhammad Hisyam Syafii, Halim Purnomo, Jesus Alberto Valero Matas

“…This study used a quantitative method with a survey approach, utilizing the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q) and the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) to measure these variables among 47 randomly selected participants. The data were analyzed using simple linear regression, revealing a significant positive correlation between nomophobia and boredom intolerance: as nomophobia levels increased, tolerance for boredom decreased. …”
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Minds vs machines: A comparative study of AI and teacher-generated summaries in ELT by Osama Koraishi, Çiğdem Karatepe

“…Utilizing Zoom-AI as the AI summarization tool, the study compares its output with summaries created by ten human educators. Each participant summarized the same lesson, providing a basis for direct comparison. …”
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Knowledge, attitude, and practice of aesthetic medicine practitioners towards laser and/or light therapy for hypertrophic scars by Wenhui Yang, Lei Yang, Huizheng Li, Xingjian Cheng

“…A total of 424 valid questionnaires were collected, with 220 (52.26%) female participants. The mean scores were 27.24 ± 4.28 for knowledge (range 8–40), 34.14 ± 3.49 for attitude (range 9–45), and 26.22 ± 3.46 for practice (range 6–30). …”
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COMMUNITY RESPONSE (CRM)-BASED PRIORITY SCALE SYSTEM FOR TRANSJAKARTA ROUTE REPAIR in DKI JAKARTA PROVINCE by Hairrudin, Agus Suroso

“…Furthermore, this Community Response (QCR) based priority scale system (PSS-TJ) can be an innovative model for Transjakarta road improvement systems in other cities in Indonesia, enabling resources optimization and increasing public participation in urban transportation infrastructure management. …”
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From Kabul to Cairo and Back Again: The Afghan Women’s Movement and Early 20th Century Transregional Transformations by Marya Hannun

“…In so doing, I challenge accounts that isolate Afghanistan and dismiss women’s participation during this period as instrumental and ephemeral.…”
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Antierythropoietin Antibody Production Is Not Associated with Malaria and Malaria-Related Anaemia in Humans by Otchere Addai-Mensah, Daniel Gyamfi, Francis Agyei Amponsah, Max Efui Annani-Akollor, Kwabena Owusu Danquah, Lillian Boateng, Eddie-Williams Owiredu, Edward Y. Afriyie, Richard Vikpebah Duneeh, Renate Asare, David Ofosu Ntiamoah, Richard Boateng

“…Results. Out of the 86 participants recruited, only 3 (3.5%) were positive for anti-EPO antibody; 2.3% of the case group; and 1.2% of the control group. …”
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