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The paper describes a debate in the English newspaper The Independent. The Portman group financed by the alcoholic beverage industry attempted to buy researchers in order to discredit research results unfavourable to industrial interests. Similar examples are referred. Although commercial funding is necessary and welco…

During 2020-2022, players and staff in the English Premier League in the United Kingdom were tested regularly for SARS-CoV-2 with the aim of creating a biosecure bubble for each team. We found that prevalence and reinfection estimates were consistent with those from other studies and with community infection trends.

Neel [(2004). Acoust. Res. Lett. Online 5, 125-131] asked how much time-varying formant detail is needed for vowel identification. In that study, multiple stimuli were synthesized for each vowel: 1-point (monophthongal with midpoint frequencies), 2-point (linear from onset to offset), 3-point, 5-point, and 11-point. Re…

Given the undeniable role of English as a foreign language (EFL) students' academic motivation and engagement in L2 success, identifying the antecedents of these positive academic behaviors seems essential. Accordingly, many empirical studies have probed into the impact of students' personal factors on their motivation…

This article reports the findings of an exploratory study involving the development and implementation of a WebQuest-based critical-thinking programme in Hong Kong primary English classrooms. Using 'design research' as its methodological framework, the study investigated the critical-thinking performance of 125 primary…

In view of the widespread wrong use in spanish of the erroneous translation of evidence-based Medicine as "medicina basada en la evidencia", comments are made from the general concepts of phylosophy, particularly from the chapter of "semiotics", which demonstrate the falacious use of such a wrong translation and the da…

Communication amongst medical specialists helps display the tensions between localism and transnationalisation. Some quantitative sampling of psychiatric journals provides one framework for understanding the history of psychiatry and, to some extent, the history of medicine in general in the twentieth century. After Wo…

Although the term workaholism is widely used, there is very little consensus about its meaning. Since the seventies, workaholism has been described as a work addiction such as drug or alcohol addiction. Similarities with other addictions include craving, withdrawal, tolerance, progressive involvement, and denial. Altho…

This paper demonstrates how domain theory development is enhanced by using both theoretical data and empirical data. The study explored the domain of speaking English as a second language (ESL) comparing hypothetical data on speaking tasks provided by an experienced teacher and by a certified ACTFL oral proficiency int…

In the advance of research in grammaticalization, there has been some inquiry into the development of English intensifiers. While most studies focus on the process of semantic shift from adverbs or adjectives that are the primary sources of intensifiers, little attention has been drawn to minor members of the category…