Blended learning challenges of EFL undergraduate students: Student learning experience in an AI-integrated ESP course by Pimsiri Taylor

“…Participants generally viewed technological and online learning aspects as the least challenging, in contrast with social aspects as the most challenging, followed by motivation and willingness to participate in the blended learning ESP course. …”
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Varying Collimation for Dark-Field Extraction by Ge Wang, Wenxiang Cong, Haiou Shen, Yu Zou

“…Although x-ray imaging is widely used in biomedical applications, biological soft tissues have small density changes, leading to low contrast resolution for attenuation-based x-ray imaging. …”
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Integration of social work into specialist palliative home service by Janice Lee Wartchow, Stefan Bär, Bernd Alt-Epping, Christina Gerlach

“…Background: The specialist palliative home service (SAPV) federal framework contract for adults, to be enacted in Germany until 2028, does not legally mandate the hiring of a third professional group beyond specialist nurses and physicians, although palliative care embraces the psychosocial dimension and an interprofessional approach. …”
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A Rare Otological Presentation of Squamous Papilloma by Tanuj Madan, Sunil Goyal, Sachin Thongam

“…Advanced imaging like contrast enhanced high resolution computed tomogram remains gold standard to evaluate any mass seen in EAC. …”
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Sprawl Angle in Simplified Models of Vertical Climbing: Implications for Robots and Roaches by Goran A. Lynch, Lawrence Rome, Daniel E. Koditschek

“…For quadratic-in-velocity power output actuation models typical of commercially available electromechanical actuators, our results suggest the new hypothesis that sprawled posture may confer significant energetic advantage. In notable contrast, muscle-powered climbers do not experience an energetic benefit from sprawled posture due to their sufficiently distinct actuator characteristics and operating regimes. …”
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Direitos sociais: direitos humanos a serem universalizados by Stella Narita

“…O Estado - democrático e de direito - existe formalmente mas, de fato, grande parte da população vive sob a condição de não-cidadania, participando de um contrato social excludente, em um não-Estado de direito.…”
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Projective varieties have countably many real forms by Labinet, Timothée L.

“…The verification consists in gathering known results about automorphism groups and Galois cohomology. This contrasts with the recent discovery by A. Bot of an affine real variety with uncountably many real forms.…”
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América Latina: racionalidad polícroma by Roberto Follari

“…Si bien el Iluminismo pasó por el subcontinente, nunca logró imponerse del todo a una racionalidad compuesta por culturas variadas, que no es de ningún modo lo contrario de la razón hegemónica, pero que sin dudas no se deja completar por la misma.…”
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Le voyage discret des plantes by Pierre Grenand, Marie-Françoise Prévost, Marie Fleury

“…The two plants we selected, Abelmoschus moschatus and Zingiber zerumbet, present marked contrasts. The first, widely disseminated, was integrated by Amazonian populations together with most of its original uses, whereas the second, with more localised uses, underwent important innovations. …”
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Tous paysagistes ! De la tour à la cabane by Anne-Lise Monnet

“…Key stages in the project involved a mediation process and the use of participative tools (or "intermediary objects") which led to minor revelations for the public, the contractor and the contracting authority.…”
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Estudos culturais latino-americanos: configurações de um sintagma by Alfredo Cordiviola

“…Between common interests, points of convergence, contrasts and antagonisms, the tensions that chara cterize the two parts of a phrase such as „Latin American Cultural Studies‟ served to rethink the field of study, the practices and knowledges and also the ways in which ideas circulate and academic policies are set in a context marked by the diversity of enunciative locus and by the reworking of epistemic categories.…”
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Application of a methodology for retouching by Ana Bailão

“…The four steps are: chromatic and formal study, considering the use of Gestalt theory and the phenomena of contrast and assimilation; selection of the technique; choice of the materials and retouching practice.…”
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A Comparative Analysis of Blockchain in Enhancing the Drug Traceability in Edible Foods Using Multiple Regression Analysis by K. Suresh Kumar, Vinay Kumar Nassa, Dipesh Uike, Ashima kalra, Ajay Kumar Sahu, Vijay Anant Athavale, V. Saravanan

“…These approaches leverage the usage of smart contracts and decentralize the storage of information in a secure manner for enhanced product traceability in the F&B industry. …”
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Optimizing survey conditions for Burmese python detection and removal using community science data by Kelly R. McCaffrey, Melissa A. Miller, Sergio A. Balaguera-Reina, Alexander S. Romer, Michael Kirkland, Amy Peters, Edward F. Metzger, LeRoy Rodgers, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…Consequently, programs exist which incentivize contractors to remove pythons. While surveying, contractors collect data on search effort and python captures. …”
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Indigenous Populations, Plantations, and Agrarian Conflicts in Rural North Maluku during the Colonial Period from the 17th to the 20th Century by A. Rahman

“…The colonial rulers' monopolistic practices, often enforced through contracts or agreements of cooperation and friendship, primarily benefited the colonial government and private sector. …”
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¿Agroecología o agricultura convencional moderna? Posicionamientos de extensionistas rurales argentinos by F. LANDINI, Maite BERAMENDI

“…En particular, por los impactos y pasivos ambientales de la aplicación de los principios de la denominada revolución verde. En contraste, la agroecología gana adeptos en el marco de un modelo productivo diferente, aunque limitado por su menor nivel de producción por unidad de superficie. …”
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Inclusión, ¿para qué? by Sueli Souza ods Santos

“…Se considera la visión como una función del órgano, unido a la percepción con sus trampas y distorsiones de lo real, contrario al mirar, que está preso a la pulsión escópica, por lo tanto de orden inconsciente, de lo indefinido, de lo indecible, fundante de la subjetividad. …”
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A literature review on transformative impacts of blockchain technology on manufacturing management and industrial engineering practices by Dharmendra Hariyani, Poonam Hariyani, Sanjeev Mishra, Milind Kumar Sharma

“…The study finds that BCT significantly enhances management and industrial engineering by improving supply chain transparency, automating operations with smart contracts, and ensuring quality and sustainability. …”
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Fetal Safety in MRI During Pregnancy: A Comprehensive Review by Gal Puris, Angela Chetrit, Eldad Katorza

“…This review examines the current evidence on the safety of MRI during pregnancy, with a focus on 3 T MRI and contrast agents, aiming to provide a comprehensive synthesis that informs clinical decision-making, ensures fetal safety and supports the safe use of all available modalities that could impact management. …”
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Patient Satisfaction and Visual Performance in Patients with Ocular Pathology after Bilateral Implantation of a New Extended Depth of Focus Intraocular Lens by Laureano A. Rementería-Capelo, Pilar Lorente, Virginia Carrillo, José M. Sánchez-Pina, Javier Ruiz-Alcocer, Inés Contreras

“…Binocular defocus curves were similar for both groups and there were no differences in contrast sensitivity values. Pooling the refractive results, 96% of eyes were within ±0.50 D of target refraction. …”
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