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1. Effects of MOOC and Video Conferencing Deliveries on Vocabulary Usage and Learning Strategies

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Wee Ling Choo and Lee Luan Ng

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While vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) have primarily been taught in physical classroom settings, the potential for applying strategy training in an online environment remains under-explored. With the rising acceptance of remote education, there is a need to investigate the impacts of applying strategy training in online contexts. Hence, this study explores the effects of online deliveries on VLSs and vocabulary usage in writing among adult English as second language (ESL) learners via massive open online course (MOOC) and video conferencing platforms. A total of 50 pre-intermediate ESL learners completed a 5-week VLSs course on a MOOC while 44 students learnt from the instructor synchronously using Microsoft Teams. The data comprised questionnaires and learners' compositions, which were collected before and after treatment. The data analysis procedures involved Lextutor's version of lexical frequency profiling (LFP), descriptive and inferential statistics. The results revealed that there was a significant increase of usage in all categories of the VLSs after the course for both groups. Additionally, the effects of VLSs instruction on vocabulary usage could be reflected in both groups' writing though the choice of words might have been task-influenced. The findings from this study could yield useful insights on online vocabulary learning for ESL instructors and learners.

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2024

2. Promoting Learning about Local Food Security by Applying Environmental Education Processes to People in Central Part of Thailand

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Khomkrit Bunkhiao, Jidapa Koomklang, Wee Rawang, and Seree Woraphong

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The objective of this research is twofold: firstly, to examine the level of local food security and the community members' understanding of environmental education; and secondly, to develop a model that enhances local food security by implementing the environmental education practices of the community residents. Utilized mixed-methods research. Data were gathered via a questionnaire, a group discussion, and a workshop. A total of 378 respondents were chosen for the questionnaire using multi-stage selection, while 45 respondents were chosen using purposive sampling. Furthermore, a total of 32 community volunteers were extended an invitation to participate in the workshop. This study included descriptive statistics and content analysis. The findings indicate that the target communities have an average perception level of 3.19 regarding local food security, while their knowledge about the environment is at a high level of 4.01. The study identifies five key components for establishing local food security, namely: (1) learning local food identity; (2) inheriting local wisdom; (3) transmitting local food knowledge; (4) managing sources of local food; and (5) building local networks.

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2024

3. Adaptive Fitness Enhancement Model: Improving Exercise Feedback and Outcomes through Tailored Independent Physical Education Plan

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Xu Li, Wee Hoe Tan, Zhidu Li, Dan Dou, and Qing Zhou

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Intelligent technologies have great potential for advancing physical education (PE), thus finding an appropriate independent PE plan (IPEP) is a key step in improving undergraduates' physical fitness (PF) level. In this study, an adaptive fitness enhancement model (AFEM) was designed based on senseless exercise behaviors monitoring (EBM) technology and an intelligent PE platform to explore the changes in PF levels of undergraduates with different fitness levels after receiving different IPEP. A total of 400 undergraduates participated in this study, and they were randomly assigned to four experimental groups and one control group. This study not only considered the historical performance of the undergraduates (fixed effect) but also delved into the individual differences of the undergraduates (random effect). The findings indicated that high-frequency aerobic exercise promoted endurance qualities more than low-frequency anaerobic exercise in an EBM environment, while low-frequency anaerobic exercise promoted strength qualities more than low-frequency anaerobic exercise. In this study, the initial decision-making mechanism of the AFEM model was developed based on the results of linear mixed model data analysis. The results showed that the AFEM model was able to maximize the effect of exercise, which in turn effectively improved the PF of undergraduates. At the same time, the AFEM model also adjusts the control variables according to the actual needs of the users, thus enriching the diversity of IPEP and further exploring the potential of the application of intelligent technology in personalized PE.

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2024
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4. Domain Specificity of Mastery-Motivation-Related Behaviours in Relation to Singaporean Preschoolers' Mathematical Performance

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Tiffany Yanyi Lee, Lit Wee Sim, Mohamed Syukri Bin Mohamed Anwar, Pierina Cheung, Kerry Lee, Daniel Ansari, Gianluca Esposito, and Anne Rifkin-Graboi

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Mastery motivation predicts achievement, but intricacies amongst preschoolers are unclear. In keeping with the Specificity Principle, school-age, and adolescent research demonstrates the importance of considering the "setting conditions" in which mastery motivation is observed. Here, Singaporean 4-year-olds' (N = 63) mastery-motivation-related behaviour (MMRB) (e.g. signs of persistence, focus, and pleasure) in mathematical and non-mathematical activities were observed. Relations between numeracy and MMRB during a mathematical game (outcome relevant setting) were determined, controlling for MMRB in other activities (outcome irrelevant settings). Association between MMRB during the mathematical game and receptive language (outcome irrelevant setting) was also examined. Consistent with the Specificity Principle, MMRB during the mathematical game was (i) associated with numeracy, after controlling for MMRB in other activities and (ii) did not predict language. Enhancing preschoolers' experiences, especially when implemented in contexts related to areas targeted for improvement, may benefit outcomes. These skills acquired in early life can become important predictors of future ability.

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2024
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5. Mediational Affordances at a Science Centre Gallery: An Exploratory and Small Study Using Eye Tracking and Interviews

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Tang Wee Teo, Zee Heng Joshua Loh, Lek Ee Kee, Gary Soh, and Eugene Wambeck

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Science centres are informal learning spaces embedded with artefacts embodying mediational affordances. This exploratory and small-scale mixed methods study juxtaposes eye-tracking technologies and qualitative interviews to examine how visitors to a gallery navigated this space and interacted with different artefacts. A total of 15 visitors to the science centre gallery, Energy Story, participated in the study. The findings revealed inconclusive results about the directionality of their navigation. The mediational affordances of the artefacts, as interpreted from the interactive elements and interaction of the visitors and interviews, suggested that it was better to distribute the mediational affordances across a few artefacts in an exhibit rather than have one artefact embody several affordances. The concept of "mediational threshold" was suggested as a topic for future study. The findings contributed to the academic literature on eye-tracking studies at science centres. They also provided ideas for science centre curators and teachers who bring students with diverse learning needs to this mediational space.

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2024
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6. 1D flat bands in phosphorene nanoribbons with pentagonal nature

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Sun, Shuo, You, Jing-Yang, Cai, Zhihao, Su, Jie, Yang, Tong, Peng, Xinnan, Wang, Yihe, Geng, Daiyu, Gou, Jian, Huang, Yuli, Duan, Sisheng, Chen, Lan, Wu, Kehui, Wee, Andrew T. S., Feng, Yuan Ping, Zhang, Jia Lin, Lu, Jiong, Feng, Baojie, and Chen, Wei

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Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Abstract

Materials with flat bands can serve as a promising platform to investigate strongly interacting phenomena. However, experimental realization of ideal flat bands is mostly limited to artificial lattices or moir\'e systems. Here we report a general way to construct one-dimensional (1D) flat bands in phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) with pentagonal nature: penta-hexa-PNRs and penta-dodeca-PNRs, wherein the corresponding 1D flat bands are directly verified by using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We confirm that the observed 1D flat bands originate from the electronic 1D zigzag and Lieb lattices, respectively, as revealed by the combination of bond-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy, scanning tunneling spectroscopy, tight-binding models, and first-principles calculations. Our study demonstrates a general way to construct 1D flat bands in 1D solid materials system, which provides a robust platform to explore strongly interacting phases of matter., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures

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2024
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11. Super-silencer perturbation by EZH2 and REST inhibition leads to large loss of chromatin interactions and reduction in cancer growth

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Zhang, Ying, Chen, Kaijing, Tang, Seng Chuan, Cai, Yichao, Nambu, Akiko, See, Yi Xiang, Fu, Chaoyu, Raju, Anandhkumar, Lebeau, Benjamin, Ling, Zixun, Chan, Jia Jia, Tay, Yvonne, Mutwil, Marek, Lakshmanan, Manikandan, Tucker-Kellogg, Greg, Chng, Wee Joo, Tenen, Daniel G., Osato, Motomi, Tergaonkar, Vinay, and Fullwood, Melissa Jane

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2025
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16. Molecular diagnosis of 405 individuals with autism spectrum disorder

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Miyake, Noriko, Tsurusaki, Yoshinori, Fukai, Ryoko, Kushima, Itaru, Okamoto, Nobuhiko, Ohashi, Kei, Nakamura, Kazuhiko, Hashimoto, Ryota, Hiraki, Yoko, Son, Shuraku, Kato, Mitsuhiro, Sakai, Yasunari, Osaka, Hitoshi, Deguchi, Kimiko, Matsuishi, Toyojiro, Takeshita, Saoko, Fattal-Valevski, Aviva, Ekhilevitch, Nina, Tohyama, Jun, Yap, Patrick, Keng, Wee Teik, Kobayashi, Hiroshi, Takubo, Keiyo, Okada, Takashi, Saitoh, Shinji, Yasuda, Yuka, Murai, Toshiya, Nakamura, Kazuyuki, Ohga, Shouichi, Matsumoto, Ayumi, Inoue, Ken, Saikusa, Tomoko, Hershkovitz, Tova, Kobayashi, Yu, Morikawa, Mako, Ito, Aiko, Hara, Toshiro, Uno, Yota, Seiwa, Chizuru, Ishizuka, Kanako, Shirahata, Emi, Fujita, Atsushi, Koshimizu, Eriko, Miyatake, Satoko, Takata, Atsushi, Mizuguchi, Takeshi, Ozaki, Norio, and Matsumoto, Naomichi

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2024
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26. Exome sequencing in Asian populations identifies low-frequency and rare coding variation influencing Parkinson’s disease risk

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Chew, Elaine GY, Liu, Zhehao, Li, Zheng, Chung, Sun Ju, Lian, Michelle M., Tandiono, Moses, Heng, Yue Jing, Ng, Ebonne Y., Tan, Louis CS, Chng, Wee Ling, Tan, Tiak Ju, Peh, Esther KL, Ho, Ying Swan, Chen, Xiao Yin, Lim, Erin YT, Chang, Chu Hua, Leong, Jonavan J., Peh, Ting Xuan, Chan, Ling Ling, Chao, Yinxia, Au, Wing-Lok, Prakash, Kumar M., Lim, Jia Lun, Tay, Yi Wen, Mok, Vincent, Chan, Anne YY, Lin, Juei-Jueng, Jeon, Beom S., Song, Kyuyoung, Tham, Clement C., Pang, Chi Pui, Ahn, Jeeyun, Park, Kyu Hyung, Wiggs, Janey L., Aung, Tin, Tan, Ai Huey, Ahmad Annuar, Azlina, Makarious, Mary B., Blauwendraat, Cornelis, Nalls, Mike A., Robak, Laurie A., Alcalay, Roy N., Gan-Or, Ziv, Reynolds, Richard, Lim, Shen-Yang, Xia, Yun, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Tan, Eng-King, Wang, Zhenxun, and Foo, Jia Nee

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2024
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30. Assessment of the errors of high-fidelity two-qubit gates in silicon quantum dots

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Tanttu, Tuomo, Lim, Wee Han, Huang, Jonathan Y., Dumoulin Stuyck, Nard, Gilbert, Will, Su, Rocky Y., Feng, MengKe, Cifuentes, Jesus D., Seedhouse, Amanda E., Seritan, Stefan K., Ostrove, Corey I., Rudinger, Kenneth M., Leon, Ross C. C., Huang, Wister, Escott, Christopher C., Itoh, Kohei M., Abrosimov, Nikolay V., Pohl, Hans-Joachim, Thewalt, Michael L. W., Hudson, Fay E., Blume-Kohout, Robin, Bartlett, Stephen D., Morello, Andrea, Laucht, Arne, Yang, Chih Hwan, Saraiva, Andre, and Dzurak, Andrew S.

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2024
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31. Genomic analysis of intracranial and subcortical brain volumes yields polygenic scores accounting for variation across ancestries

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García-Marín, Luis M., Campos, Adrian I., Diaz-Torres, Santiago, Rabinowitz, Jill A., Ceja, Zuriel, Mitchell, Brittany L., Grasby, Katrina L., Thorp, Jackson G., Agartz, Ingrid, Alhusaini, Saud, Ames, David, Amouyel, Philippe, Andreassen, Ole A., Arfanakis, Konstantinos, Arias-Vasquez, Alejandro, Armstrong, Nicola J., Athanasiu, Lavinia, Bastin, Mark E., Beiser, Alexa S., Bennett, David A., Bis, Joshua C., Boks, Marco P. M., Boomsma, Dorret I., Brodaty, Henry, Brouwer, Rachel M., Buitelaar, Jan K., Burkhardt, Ralph, Cahn, Wiepke, Calhoun, Vince D., Carmichael, Owen T., Chakravarty, Mallar, Chen, Qiang, Ching, Christopher R. K., Cichon, Sven, Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto, Crivello, Fabrice, Dale, Anders M., Smith, George Davey, de Geus, Eco J. C., De Jager, Philip L., de Zubicaray, Greig I., Debette, Stéphanie, DeCarli, Charles, Depondt, Chantal, Desrivières, Sylvane, Djurovic, Srdjan, Ehrlich, Stefan, Erk, Susanne, Espeseth, Thomas, Fernández, Guillén, Filippi, Irina, Fisher, Simon E., Fleischman, Debra A., Fletcher, Evan, Fornage, Myriam, Forstner, Andreas J., Francks, Clyde, Franke, Barbara, Ge, Tian, Goldman, Aaron L., Grabe, Hans J., Green, Robert C., Grimm, Oliver, Groenewold, Nynke A., Gruber, Oliver, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Håberg, Asta K., Haukvik, Unn K., Heinz, Andreas, Hibar, Derrek P., Hilal, Saima, Himali, Jayandra J., Ho, Beng-Choon, Hoehn, David F., Hoekstra, Pieter J., Hofer, Edith, Hoffmann, Wolfgang, Holmes, Avram J., Homuth, Georg, Hosten, Norbert, Ikram, M. Kamran, Ipser, Jonathan C., Jack Jr, Clifford R., Jahanshad, Neda, Jönsson, Erik G., Kahn, Rene S., Kanai, Ryota, Klein, Marieke, Knol, Maria J., Launer, Lenore J., Lawrie, Stephen M., Hellard, Stephanie Le, Lee, Phil H., Lemaître, Hervé, Li, Shuo, Liewald, David C. M., Lin, Honghuang, Longstreth, Jr, W. T., Lopez, Oscar L., Luciano, Michelle, Maillard, Pauline, Marquand, Andre F., Martin, Nicholas G., Martinot, Jean-Luc, Mather, Karen A., Mattay, Venkata S., McMahon, Katie L., Mecocci, Patrizia, Melle, Ingrid, Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas, Mirza-Schreiber, Nazanin, Milaneschi, Yuri, Mosley, Thomas H., Mühleisen, Thomas W., Müller-Myhsok, Bertram, Maniega, Susana Muñoz, Nauck, Matthias, Nho, Kwangsik, Niessen, Wiro J., Nöthen, Markus M., Nyquist, Paul A., Oosterlaan, Jaap, Pandolfo, Massimo, Paus, Tomas, Pausova, Zdenka, Penninx, Brenda W. J. H., Pike, G. Bruce, Psaty, Bruce M., Pütz, Benno, Reppermund, Simone, Rietschel, Marcella D., Risacher, Shannon L., Romanczuk-Seiferth, Nina, Romero-Garcia, Rafael, Roshchupkin, Gennady V., Rotter, Jerome I., Sachdev, Perminder S., Sämann, Philipp G., Saremi, Arvin, Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan, Saykin, Andrew J., Schmaal, Lianne, Schmidt, Helena, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schofield, Peter R., Scholz, Markus, Schumann, Gunter, Schwarz, Emanuel, Shen, Li, Shin, Jean, Sisodiya, Sanjay M., Smith, Albert V., Smoller, Jordan W., Soininen, Hilkka S., Steen, Vidar M., Stein, Dan J., Stein, Jason L., Thomopoulos, Sophia I., Toga, Arthur W., Tordesillas-Gutiérrez, Diana, Trollor, Julian N., Valdes-Hernandez, Maria C., van ′t Ent, Dennis, van Bokhoven, Hans, van der Meer, Dennis, van der Wee, Nic J. A., Vázquez-Bourgon, Javier, Veltman, Dick J., Vernooij, Meike W., Villringer, Arno, Vinke, Louis N., Völzke, Henry, Walter, Henrik, Wardlaw, Joanna M., Weinberger, Daniel R., Weiner, Michael W., Wen, Wei, Westlye, Lars T., Westman, Eric, White, Tonya, Witte, A. Veronica, Wolf, Christiane, Yang, Jingyun, Zwiers, Marcel P., Ikram, M. Arfan, Seshadri, Sudha, Thompson, Paul M., Satizabal, Claudia L., Medland, Sarah E., and Rentería, Miguel E.

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2024
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39. Do Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Affect Mortality Rates in People with Intellectual Disability and Dysphagia Who Have a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy? A Cohort Study between 2000 and 2022

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Laura Broad, Christine Wee, and Anthony D. Harries

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Background: People with intellectual disability frequently have eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) and are at greater risk of premature mortality, particularly from aspiration and respiratory infections. The insertion of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), as part of a multidisciplinary management plan, may help to maintain and improve nutrition. This study included people with intellectual disability who had ever had a PEG inserted and who presented to the specialist Speech and Language Therapy team in one Greater Manchester borough between 2000 and 2022 and assessed the risk of death and sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with this. Methods: This was a cohort study using secondary data. Kaplan--Meier estimates were used to construct the probability of mortality curves. Cox proportional hazards were used to compare death rates in the different sociodemographic and clinical characteristic groups and were presented as hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals. Findings: Of 42 people included in the study, 18 (43%) died from the point of PEG insertion to the end of the study (December 2022). The median (interquartile range) time to death from PEG insertion was 5 (2-10) years, with four people (10%) dying in the first year. Aspiration pneumonia and unspecified pneumonia were responsible for seven (39%) deaths. No significant associations were found between sociodemographic and clinical factors and risk of death. Conclusion: In persons with intellectual disability and a PEG who were followed up between 2000 and 2022, the mortality was around 40% with deaths occurring in the first year and respiratory conditions being an important cause. The lack of association with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics may have been due to a limited sample size. Further research is needed with larger samples and more variables, including quality of life data, to help understand and improve clinical practice in this area.

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2024
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44. Pathogenic hypothalamic extracellular matrix promotes metabolic disease

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Beddows, Cait A., Shi, Feiyue, Horton, Anna L., Dalal, Sagar, Zhang, Ping, Ling, Chang-Chun, Yong, V. Wee, Loh, Kim, Cho, Ellie, Karagiannis, Chris, Rose, Adam J., Montgomery, Magdalene K., Gregorevic, Paul, Watt, Matthew J., Packer, Nicolle H., Parker, Benjamin L., Brown, Robyn M., Moh, Edward S. X., and Dodd, Garron T.

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2024
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