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Past studies on the contributions of language learning motivations and test perceptions to language learning have been conducted relatively independently, with few simultaneously gauging the relative effects of these two types of variables on learning behaviors and outcome. In contexts where testing plays a significant…

Due to the extensive development of globalization, the ethnic makeup of the world is becoming more and more complex, and the issue of cultural diversity has emerged as a key concern for all nations' educational systems. Cross-cultural education is an educational prescription for many western countries to deal with cult…

COVID-19 struck at the beginning of 2020, affecting, among others, the education industry. As a result, a lock-down quarantine was declared, and on-campus classes were suspended. Accordingly, emergency remote teaching (ERT) was set into motion to solve the education issue. This research aimed to obtain the reflections…

Developing English reading fluency (ERF) is challenging due to cross-linguistic differences between L1 and L2. This study replicated, with modifications, prior study of "syntactic enhancement and secondary school EFL Students' reading fluency in South Korea." The current project investigated the impact of visual-syntac…

BACKGROUND: Academic performance of medical students is governed by various factors. Personality traits such as core self-evaluation (CSE) and locus of control (LOC) are a few of the most important factors that could govern academic performance. The medium of communication is another important factor, especially in a c…

NHS Resolution provides indemnity cover for legal claims against the NHS, assists the NHS with risk management and aims to share lessons from claims in order to improve safety. The study aimed to investigate the financial costs of litigation against English Health Trusts in otolaryngology over a 10-year period, to see…

This article arose from the back-to-back presentations by Michael Kelly and Patrice Métayer to the Anglo-French Medical Society in 2013 on the French and English legal systems handling a case of alleged clinical negligence as it proceeds from complaint to settlement or judgment in the two jurisdictions. Both syste…

The Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ(11-14)) is a self-administered instrument for the assessment of oral health-related quality of life in children. The objective of this study was to translate and adapt the questionnaire for use in Brazil. The questionnaire was translated from the English original into Brazilian…

BACKGROUND: application of an American early language test in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking subjects. AIM: to compare the performance of normal Brazilian Portuguese and American English-speaking subjects on the Test of Early Language Development - Third Edition (TELD-3). METHOD: participants of this study were 120 su…

Dissections, manipulation of ligamentary preparations, analysis of limb proportions, and quantitative aspects of forelimb myology are used to correlate forelimb morphology in fur seals and sea lions (sub-family Otariinae) with previously published data as to their locomotor function (English, '76a). Comparisons to stru…

Despite the recognised importance of training planning and periodisation in elite football, no published research has examined these practices across the professional men's English football league pyramid. Increased physical and scheduling demands underscore the need to understand current trends and influencing factors…

BACKGROUND: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly advancing, with the potential to improve healthcare. While LLM performance on medical licensing exams were studied extensively, their performance in rheumatology exams requires specific evaluation. OBJECTIVES: To assess Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatG…

This study investigates the effects of limited Chinese pinyin learning on American elementary school students' language performance, with particular emphasis on potential cross-linguistic interference and the benefits of pinyin learning. Participants from two schools, one receiving Chinese instruction including pinyin…

BACKGROUND: Current research findings show that students in healthcare education programs face high levels of burnout. When English is used as the Medium of Instruction (EMI), non-native speakers experience added linguistic strain, increasing their stress, cognitive overload, and emotional exhaustion. PURPOSE: This st…

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the accuracy of an artificial intelligence program (ChatGPT 4.0) as a medical translation modality in a simulated pediatric urgent care setting. METHODS: Two entirely separate instances of ChatGPT 4.0 were used. The first served as a simulated patient (SP). The SP generated complaints and sympt…

: Prolonged disorders of consciousness (DoC) present complex diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of two ChatGPT models (ChatGPT 4o and ChatGPT o1) in answering questions about prolonged DoC, framed as if they were posed by a patient's relative. Secondary objectives included…

Large language models (LLMs), represented by ChatGPT, are one of the most significant technological breakthroughs in generative AI and have begun to be applied in EFL writing instruction. The advent of LLMs presents both opportunities and challenges for EFL learners, underscoring the importance of empirical evidence on…

PURPOSE: This study investigates how Mandarin-English bilingual students in Canada produce Mandarin tones and how this is influenced by factors such as tone complexity, cross-linguistic influences, and speech input. METHOD: Participants were 82 students enrolled in a Chinese bilingual program in Western Canada. Studen…

PURPOSE: Following the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) framework, the current study investigated the active ingredients in the modified semantic feature analysis (mSFA) targeting either noun or verb retrieval in Mandarin-English bilingual adults with aphasia (BWA). METHOD: Twelve Mandarin-English…