Pre-service EFL teachers’ competencies for teaching young learners by Hilal Alten, Müge Karakaş

“…This explanatory study aims to identify certain competencies that teachers need to possess for teaching young and very young learners from the perspective of Turkish pre-service EFL teachers who are conducting their practicum studies within the last year of the teacher training program. …”
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Evocative properties of precedent proper names in the newest German-speaking fictional discourse by Yu. A. Blinova

“…The article based on the works of the second decade of the XXI century of the modern German-speaking authors analyses and describes the realization of the evocative function of precedent proper names in the newest German fictional discourse as a mechanism for creation of extra implicit meanings. Precedent names possess the evocative property and act as evocative shifters that allow for shifts between various conceptual fields and actualization of lingua-cultural concepts on the level of content. …”
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Assessment of Salivary Adipokines Resistin, Visfatin, and Ghrelin as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Biomarkers by Mythily Srinivasan, Melinda L. Meadows, Lisa Maxwell

“…Human saliva is an easily accessible biospecimen amenable for painless frequent collection and possesses nearly 50% of serum proteome. In this study, we measured the adipokines resistin, visfatin, TNF-α, and ghrelin as markers for T2DM in unstimulated whole saliva (UWS) using specific assay kits. …”
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Bioactive Volatile Content of the Stem and Root of Centaurea carduiformis DC. subsp. carduiformis var. carduiformis by Ibrahim Demirtas, Ayse Sahin

“…Several species of Centaurea, biennial (or more rarely perennial) plants which belong to the Asteraceae family, possess medicinal properties and are currently used in phytotherapy. …”
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Efficient Model Predictive Algorithms for Tracking of Periodic Signals by Yun-Chung Chu, Michael Z. Q. Chen

“…Both proposed algorithms possess nice convergence properties, which are also verified with computer simulations.…”
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Wychowanie ekologiczne w perspektywie personalistycznej by Stanisław Dziekoński

“…The .personalistic norm.) of pro-ecological education by no means depreciates other beings possessing autonomy and objective value. Between man and other beings, one can see close ties, relations of interdependence, common sharing of destiny. …”
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Masculinity and Femininity in the Qur’an: Reflections on the Personalities of the Prophet Muhammad and Siti Khadijah by Moh Soim, Zein Fuady, Muhammad Zahid

“…This study concludes that men and women can possess masculine and feminine traits, in that women can have masculine characteristics and men can have feminine traits, provided that they are legitimized by Islamic law. …”
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Color Confinement and Spatial Dimensions in the Complex-Sedenion Space by Zi-Hua Weng

“…In contrast to the complex-number wave function, the complex-quaternion wave function possesses three new degrees of freedom, that is, three color degrees of freedom. …”
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Nutrient Status of Vermicompost of Urban Green Waste Processed by Three Earthworm Species—Eisenia fetida, Eudrilus eugeniae, and Perionyx excavatus by Swati Pattnaik, M. Vikram Reddy

“…Moreover, the vermicompost produced by E. eugeniae possessed higher nutrient contents than that of E. fetida, P. excavatus, and compost. …”
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Communs (im)matériels : enjeux épistémologiques, institutionnels et politiques by Arnaud Buchs, Catherine Baron, Géraldine Froger, Adrien Peneranda

“…The second perspective, institutional, combines the tangible and intangible dimensions of the commons through the issues of rules shaping, particularly those related to ownership, possession and access, but also through the linked coordination issues. …”
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Application of Spiral Ring Dampers in Vibration Reduction of Aeroengine Bevel Gears by Wang Yanfeng, Gao Weiqiang, Xu Yongqiang, Ou Daisong

“…Moreover, the spiral damper enjoys convenience in installation and disassembly, and possesses small additional imbalance, which leads to a promising and broad application for vibration reduction of aeroengine gears.…”
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Animal Objects: Memory, Desire and Mourning by Julia Courtney

“…While the death of the animal is implicit in the construction of the domestic object, possession of the object allows the owner to recapture, even to re-experience, intensely lived moments of danger, violence, comradeship, physical prowess, closeness to nature and, especially, of power.…”
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Solving the Cape Town Puzzle: Class, Politics and Migration in the Informal Food Economy by Graeme Young

“… Political empowerment possesses significant potential to facilitate the realization of economic inclusion by allowing marginalized groups to make claims on the state in the pursuit of justice and equality. …”
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Evaluation method of penetrating jamming effectiveness for cognitive communication protection by Zhiguo SUN, Shuo XIAO, Yijie WU, Shiming LI, Zhenduo WANG

“…In order to support the implementation of “multidimensional orthogonal configured communication protection between communication modules as well as parameters and interference” in cognitive communication countermeasures scenarios, jamming effectiveness requires module level responsiveness.A penetrating jamming effectiveness evaluation method was proposed.Firstly, the core parameters of each signal processing module were selected as evaluation parameters.Secondly, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and entropy weight method (EWM) were used to determine the weight of indicators.The coordination problem in AHP was solved through expert weight allocation, and the weight allocation problem in EWM was solved through non-uniform mapping.Finally, the subjective and objective weights were weighed through game theory, and the jamming effectiveness was judged by the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS).By conducting evaluation experiments on the jamming performance of the Link16 data link, taking into account multiple aspects such as jamming types, number of jamming frequencies, jamming duration, and system types.Experiment results demonstrate that the penetration-based jamming performance evaluation method not only provides a more intuitive representation of the relationship between evaluation results and metric parameters, but also possesses excellent jamming discrimination capability.…”
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Mode Switching Research of Dual Redundant Electromechanical Servo System Driven by Differential by Ting Liu, Guoping Zhao, Yufeng He, Zhiyuan Yu, Yuping Huang

“…Simulation comparison shows that， comparison with the active-standby working mode， it is found that the active-active working mode possesses better parameters of transient response and frequency characteristic. …”
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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Traffic Violation Behaviors in E-Bike Couriers in China by Qian Cheng, Wei Deng, Qizhou Hu

“…Age, education level, whether one possessed a driver’s license, and past traffic violation behaviors had significant effects on belief composites and behavior. …”
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An Expansive View of the Influence of Khidr’s Divine Knowledge for Humanity by Madison Bohacek

“…Irfan Omar's book, "Prophet al-Khidr: Between the Qur’anic Text and Islamic Contexts," explores the story of Moses and the mysterious figure Khidr, who possesses unique divine knowledge, as mentioned in verses 18:60-82 of the Qur’an. …”
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Cypriot teachers’ digital skills and attitudes towards AI by Maria Kasinidou, Styliani Kleanthoys, Jahna Otterbacher

“…Our findings also indicate that Cypriot teachers generally possess intermediate digital skills, but maintain neutral attitudes towards AI and exhibit intermediate levels of AI literacy. …”
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Lie Bialgebra Structures and Quantization of Generalized Loop Planar Galilean Conformal Algebra by Yu Yang, Xingtao Wang

“…Additionally, we prove that all LB structures on <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi><mo>(</mo><mo>Γ</mo><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> possess a triangular coboundary. We also quantize <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi><mo>(</mo><mo>Γ</mo><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> using the Drinfeld-twist quantization technique and identify a group of noncommutative algebras and noncocommutative Hopf algebras.…”
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BIRTH-MARKS OF RUSSIAN MENTALITY AND THE CULTURE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS by A. P. Liferov

“…It is shown that Russian mentality and business, nurtured on the boarder-line between Western and Eastern cultures, possess a dual character. The paper shows the pendulum character of Russian business strategies in their interrelations with other countries. …”
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