Vocabulary load
Essential vocabulary
It is found that student interpreters need to know words from the first 3000 or 5000 word families plus supplementary lists (including proper nouns, compound words, acronyms, etc) to reach a 95% or 98% coverage…
Category: Social Sciences
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Two birds with one stone: can green finance drive the circular economy?
Literature review
The defining feature of green finance is its focus on environmental factors within financial activities. Green finance includes various financial instruments such as green credit, green bonds, and green funds, aimed at supporting…
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Divisive negative discourse biases social experience: a live experiment at a massive public event
As part of a program of live-crowd experiments (Navajas et al. 2019; Navajas et al. 2018; Zimmerman et al. 2022), the study (Fig. 1) took place in November 2022 during a TEDx event at a rock arena in Buenos Aires, Argentina (
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A single-blind active-control randomized controlled trial of group-based social competence intervention
Gates, J. A., Kang, E. & Lerner, M. D. Efficacy of group social skills interventions for youth with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin. Psychol. Rev. 52, 164-181 (2017).
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Cultivating proficient and efficacious L2 English speakers via VoiceThread-mediated self- and peer assessments
Theoretical framework
This study is grounded in two theoretical frameworks that inform the application of online self- and peer assessments to influence English speaking and self-efficacy: Bandura’s (1986, 1997) self-efficacy theory and…
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Experimenting on AI can (sometimes) teach us about ourselves
Experimenting on AI can (sometimes) teach us about ourselves
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Prenatal valproic acid on the basis of gestational diabetes also induces autistic behavior and disrupts myelination and oligodendroglial maturation slightly in offspring
Key resource table
The details are in Table 1.
Table 1 Key resource table. Animals and OPC culture
A total of one hundred female mice, subdivided into two distinct strains – fifty SPF C57BL/6J mice and fifty SPF C57B6.Cg-Dock7 +/− Lepr /J mice,…
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Ambulatory physiological measures obtained under naturalistic urban mobility conditions have acceptable reliability
Van Roekel, E., Keijsers, L. & Chung, J. M. A review of current ambulatory assessment studies in adolescent samples and practical recommendations. J. Res. Adolescence. 29, 560–577 (2019).
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PTSD course and predictors in a 15 year longitudinal cohort following suspected serious injury
Participants and study design
The current study included N = 155 trauma-exposed adults (37% women, mean age at follow-up = 54 years, SD = 12.59) with (suspected) serious injury that required transportation by ambulance or helicopter…
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