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The transition to a two-tier system of education, the introduction of the federal state educational standards of higher education, the requirements of the single European educational space are fundamentally changing the role of faculty in the professional educational organizations of higher education as a simple translator subject knowledge.

In 2015, the SPRINT Research Group showed the advantage of intensively controlling systemic blood pressure. Are the leads of pacemaker going to be their vestigial remnant? - A rapidly advancing technology is showing success with Micra and Nanostim. Similarly, ABSORB III showed favorable results for bioresorbable scaffolds for noncomplex coronary lesions. Once again, the trial of routine aspiration thrombectomy with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) versus PCI alone in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) trial failed to show the benefit of manual thrombus aspiration in acute STEMI. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Class 1 recalled rotawires because wire fracture affected rotablation. Proton pump inhibitors demonstrated reduction in the gastrointestinal bleeding in postmyocardial infarction patients on antithrombotics and concomitant nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs use. The antidotes for newer oral anticoagulants are significant achievements of this year (REVERSE AD, ANNEXA-A, and ANNEXA-R). The FDA approval of proprotein convertase subtilisin-Kexin type 9 drugs for cholesterol lowering is a remarkable development. Selexipag is now approved for treatment of pulmonary hypertension. Different approaches of atrial fibrillation ablation were compared in substrate and trigger ablation for reduction of atrial fibrillation trail part II. High-sensitivity cardiac troponin I assays are a new hope for decision making in suspected acute coronary syndrome.

This paper begins with a recognition that questions of climate change, environmental degradation, and our relations to the natural world are increasingly significant and requiring of a response not only as philosophers of education but also as citizens of the planet. As such the paper explores five of the key journals in philosophy of education in order to identify the extent, range, and content of current discussions related to the environment. It then organizes and summaries the articles that were located while seeking to identify the extent, possibilities, and limitations of current discussions relating to the environment in the philosophy of education community. The hope is that ultimately this work is an invitation to anyone, regardless of tradition, orientation, and expertise, to contribute to the expansion and deepening of both theory and practice in the face of this most serious of challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper provides an overview of 150 publications regarding text input for motor-impaired people and describes current state of the art. It focuses on common techniques of text entry including selection of keys, approaches to character layouts, use of language models, and interaction modalities. These aspects of text entry methods are further analyzed, and examples are given. The paper also focuses on an overview of reported evaluations by describing experiments, which can be conducted, to assess the performance of a text entry method. Following this overview, a summary of 61 text entry methods for motor-impaired people found in the related literature is presented, classifying those methods according to the aforementioned aspects and reported evaluation. This overview was assembled with the aim to provide a starting point to the new researchers in the field of accessible text entry. The text entry methods are also categorized according to the suitability for various conditions of the users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a comparative study of summaries written by secondary- and university-level students enrolled in either the FL1 or FL2 program in a Canadian province outside Québec. The purpose is to compare the use of connector words in these summaries. To do so, the connector words were categorised according to four types of relationships, specifically addition, causality, opposition, and chronology. The frequency with which these words were used in the summaries was analysed by program and academic level, as well as compared to their use in the source text. The study showed differences in the frequency with which causal and temporal connecting words were used between the two programs as well as among the different academic levels. However, when connector use was adjusted for the length of the summaries, the only statistically significant differences were in the use of connector words for opposition, which increased at the university level. The study also showed that causal linking words were overused in summaries produced by all participants when compared to the source text. It also showed that the FL1 group used a greater lexical variety of connectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background/Introduction: Data classification is an important application in the domain of cognitive computation, which has various applications. In this paper, we use classification techniques to solve some key issues in answering range query over probabilistic data. The key of answering this query is to store the feature of each uncertain object in a lightweight structure and use these structures for pruning/validating. However, in these works, the costly integral calculation has to be carried out when dealing with objects that cannot be pruned/validated, and some of the structure construction algorithms are not general. Methods: In this paper, we employ ELM, a popular classification technique, to tackle the above issues. Our proposed methods are as follows: We firstly propose a new query called PDR (short for probabilistic degree range) query to substitute the traditional prob-range query, which helps us avoid the costly integral calculation. We propose an ELM-based 'adapter' to construct the lightweight structure for uncertain data in a more general manner. We design the GO-ELM algorithm for answering PDR query. It first avoids most of the integral calculation via using a group of bit vector-based filter. In addition, we propose an ELM-based classifier, which is designed to further avoid integral operations. Results: From the experiment results, we find that: (1) our ELM-based adapter is superior compared with both SVM-based and DNN-based adapter due to its better training efficiency and classification efficiency as well; (2) the performance of H-MRST is better than that of U-tree and UD-tree; and (3) ELM-filter could effectively avoid integral calculation. Conclusions: This paper studies the problem of PDR query over uncertain data. We firstly define PDR query and propose a general scheme to handle uncertain object if its PDF is discrete. We then design GO-ELM algorithm for answering PDR query. Our experiments faithfully demonstrated the efficiency of our indexing techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Biological surveys are needed to monitor and assess the health of ecosystems and the species within them. However, morphology-based biodiversity surveys can be invasive, time consuming and financially expensive. Recently, environmental (e)DNA sequencing has been demonstrated as a potential alternative to morphological-based surveys because it enables the rapid and inexpensive detection of multiple taxa from DNA present in the environment. Numerous studies have shown that eDNA-based biodiversity surveys can provide considerable information about aquatic ecosystem function and health. Therefore, this molecular method has the potential to improve how current aquatic biological surveys are conducted. Currently, most eDNA literature is aimed at an audience with a moderate to advanced knowledge of DNA sequencing, creating a barrier for many ecologists who lack DNA sequencing expertise but wish to apply such methods to their research. The aim of this review is to provide guidance to non-geneticists regarding sequencing eDNA for aquatic biodiversity surveys and to highlight the requirements that need to be considered before the technique can be effectively incorporated into biomonitoring programs. Specifically, we provide details and recommendations on some of the major principles, from sample collection to bioinformatic analyses. For those areas where specific recommendations cannot be given, we have provided references to suitable literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The soft ticks of the genus Reticulinasus Schulze, 1941 (family Argasidae Koch, 1844) are ectoparasites of the fruit bats of the Old World (Pteropodidae). Reticulinasus salahi (Hoogstraal, 1953) is the only representative of this genus that occurs in the western part of the Palaearctic. This unusual distribution reflects the distributon range of its primary host, Rousettus aegyptiacus (Geoffroy, 1810). In this contribution, we present a revised review of records of this tick that were made in two periods, 1951-1966 (records from Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Spain) and 2005-2019 (Cyprus, Iran, Oman), and additionally, we present notes, re-determinations, new records, and summary of hosts of this tick. Besides the primary host, the revised list of hosts comprises two bats (Taphozous perforatus Geoffroy, 1818, Otonycteris hemprichii Peters, 1859) and the human (Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758). We also tried to identify pathogens in specimens of this tick collected from R. aegyptiacus in Oman. The DNA of the Mouse herpesvirus strain 68 (MHV-68), of two bacteria, Borellia burgdorferii sensu lato, and Ehrlichia sp. almost identical (98%) with Candidatus Ehrlichia shimanensis was detected in several larvae specimens., (© 2023. The Author(s).)

Introduction: The task of Group 2 was to review and update the existing data concerning clinical and genetic methods of diagnostics of peri-implantitis. Special interest was paid to the peri-implant crevicular fluid (PICF) overview including analysis of enzymes and biomarkers and microbial profiles from implants. Material and Methods: The main areas of interest were as follows: effect of smoking and history of periodontitis, prosthetic treatment mistakes, excess cement, overloading, general diseases influence on peri-implantitis development. The systematic review and/or meta-analysis were registered in PROSPERO, an international prospective register of systematic reviews: http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/. The literature in the corresponding areas of interest was searched and reported using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Item for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis) Statement: http://www.prisma-statement.org/. The method of preparation of systematic reviews of the literature based on comprehensive search strategies was discussed and standardized. The summary of the materials and methods employed by the authors in preparing the systematic review and/or meta-analysis is presented in Preface chapter. Results: The results and conclusions of the review process are presented in the respective papers. The group′s general commentaries, consensus statements, clinical recommendations and implications for research are presented in this article.

Introduction: The task of Group 3 was to review and update the existing data concerning non-surgical, surgical non-regenerative and surgical regenerative treatment of peri-implantitis. Special interest was paid to the preventive and supporting therapy in case of peri-implantitis. Material and Methods: The main areas of interest were as follows: effect of smoking and history of periodontitis, prosthetic treatment mistakes, excess cement, overloading, general diseases influence on peri-implantitis development. The systematic review and/or meta-analysis were registered in PROSPERO, an international prospective register of systematic reviews: http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/. The literature in the corresponding areas of interest was searched and reported using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Item for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis) Statement: http://www.prisma-statement.org/. The method of preparation of systematic reviews of the literature based on comprehensive search strategies was discussed and standardized. The summary of the materials and methods employed by the authors in preparing the systematic review and/or meta-analysis is presented in Preface chapter. Results: The results and conclusions of the review process are presented in the respective papers. The group′s general commentaries, consensus statements, clinical recommendations and implications for research are presented in this article.

Introduction: The task of Group 1 was to review and update the existing data concerning aetiology, risk factors and pathogenesis of peri-implantitis. Previous history of periodontitis, poor oral hygiene, smoking and presence of general diseases have been considered among the aetiological risk factors for the onset of peri-implant pathologies, while late dental implant failures are commonly associated with peri-implantitis and/or with the application of incorrect biomechanical forces. Special interest was paid to the bone cells dynamics as part of the pathogenesis of peri-implantitis. Material and Methods: The main areas indagated by this group were as follows: influence of smoking, history of periodontitis and general diseases on peri-implantitis development, bio-mechanics of implant loading and its influence on peri-implant bone and cellular dynamics related to the pathogenesis of peri-implantitis. The systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses were registered in PROSPERO, an international prospective register of systematic reviews: http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/. The literature in the corresponding areas of interest was screened and reported following the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Item for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis) Statement: http://www.prisma-statement.org/. Method of preparation of the systematic reviews, based on comprehensive search strategies, was discussed and standardized. The summary of the materials and methods employed by the authors in preparing the systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses is presented in Preface chapter. Results: The results and conclusions of the review process are presented in the respective papers. One systematic review with meta-analysis, three systematic reviews and one theoretical analysis were performed. The group′s general commentaries, consensus statements, clinical recommendations and implications for research are presented in this article.

BACKGROUND: Many antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) target the intensive care unit owing to high antimicrobial utilisation. In this review, we summarise and assess the quality of evidence supporting the implementation of various ASP strategies in the intensive care unit setting with a focus on publications between 2010 and 2015. METHODS: We searched Medline up to April 2015 and screened publications of interest for additional relevant articles. We grouped the strategies into four categories: audit and feedback, formulary restrictions, guidelines/clinical pathways, and procalcitonin. We used GRADE terminology to describe the quality of evidence. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: We identified several studies reporting optimisation and reduction of antibiotic utilisation as well as cost reduction in all four strategies. Randomised controlled trials reviewing the role of procalcitonin demonstrate a moderate level of evidence. Given the lack of randomised controlled trials to support the role of guidelines, formulary restrictions, and audit and feedback, the level of evidence supporting these strategies is low. Importantly, there is no convincing evidence to support the main goal of ASP, namely to improve patient outcomes. Larger, rigorous long-term studies using a cluster randomised controlled trial or at least a controlled quasi-experimental design with time series are required to assess the impact of ASP on patient-important outcomes and on the emergence of resistance in the intensive care unit setting.

許多研究顯示大意摘要能力是理解文章的基礎能力，更是讀書學習的必備能力，然而許多教師花費相當大的心力在大意摘要教學上，學生仍不得其要領。本研究的目的希冀運用互動電子白板所建構的數位化教學與學習的環境，並結合小組合作學習之優勢，以改進目前講授大意教學的模式，提升學生的參與感與專注力，進而增進學生之摘寫大意能力。而本研究採準實驗研究法之不等組前後測設計，以國小四年級四個班級的學生為研究對象，四個班級均接受不同教學方式，分別為互動電子白板與小組合作學習組、互動電子白板組、小組合作學習組以及對照組。研究分析以SPSS 軟體進行共變數分析，以驗證相關研究假設；此外，也透過教室觀察及文件記錄來蒐集資料，並訪談教師與學生，以便對研究成效加以補充、解釋與檢證。本研究結果發現： 1.不同教學方式與不同語文能力的學生在「摘寫課文大意能力」的表現上均有顯著差異。互動電子白板與小組合作學習組的學生優於小組合作學習組、互動電子白板組及一般教學組。而高能力學生優於中、低能力學生；中能力學生表現亦優於低能力學生。 2.教師與學生均認為互動電子白板與小組合作學習策略輔助摘寫課文大意可以幫助學生集中注意力、有效提升參與度和增進教學和學習效率。 最後，綜合以上研究結果，提出建議供教師實務教學以及未來研究者參考。 Reports both abroad and within the country showed that students found it difficult to summarize articles. The use of educational technology in improving the ability of student’s to create summaries was thus a critical issue. A high tech product, such as an Interactive WhiteBoard, had the potential to revolutionize the application of digital instruction and became an indispensible teaching tool. The researcher attempts to create a platform of learning by utilizing the Interactive WhiteBoard and combining it with a team cooperative learning strategy. It was the objective of this researcher to transform the traditional method of lecturing into a more modern and effective approach through the use of digital technology. The main objective was to motivate the students and got them more involved with the reading material and the creation of summaries. The methodology of this study was mainly based upon the nonequivalent pretest-posttest of the quasi-experimental design. The subjects of this study were four classes of fourth grade students. The conclusions of the experiment were as follows: 1.Group one （Interactive WhiteBoard and cooperative learning） advanced learning students and scored the highest out of all the groups in “summary evaluation scale” . 2.Teachers and students believed that Interactive WhiteBoard and cooperative learning strategy greatly improved the student’s concentration, efficiency, and effectiveness. Finally, the researcher explained how Interactive WhiteBoard and cooperative learning strategy could be integrated into language arts instruction lessons at the elementary school level. These ideas could be referenced by both instructors and researchers.

A concisão é característica central da informação de qualidade, sendo o resumo o principal recurso para sua atribuição à informação organizacional. O resumo proporciona aos pesquisadores rápida compreensão da informação, melhora os níveis de acesso e utilização dos acervos de informações corporativas. A pesquisa avaliou a capacidade de softwares para geração automática de resumos (softwares resumidores) em selecionar as unidades de texto que expressem as ideias centrais em informações textuais extensas. Geraram-se, a partir desses, resumos para um artigo amplamente conhecido; estes, em conjunto com o resumo original do autor, foram avaliados por 20 pesquisadores, profundos conhecedores do texto. Observou-se que o autor humano apresenta qualidade superior, porém o nível de qualidade dos resumos gerados pelas novas gerações de softwares resumidores permite considerá-los como ferramentas importantes aos centros de informações organizacionais que necessitam agregar valor às suas coleções de informações.Accuracy is an essential characteristic of quality information. And the summary is the main resource for organizational information. The summarty provides the researchers with a quick understanding of information, improves the levels of access and utilization of collections of corporative information. The research evaluated the capability of software for automatic generation of summaries, for selection of units of text which express the central ideas in extensive textual information. Therefrom, summaries have been generated for a widely known article. Together with the author's original summary, they were refereed by twenty expert ressearchers. Human authors present higher quality summaries, but the quality level of summaries created by the new generations of software summarizers enables them to be considered as important tools for the centers of organizational information that have to add aggregate values to their information collections.

Despite the adoption of the term headline for both print news and broadcast news, their roles in the different media are not the same. Print headlines are mostly contiguous with the story to which they refer. Broadcast headlines, however, are often at some temporal distance from their associated news item. In the print medium every story carries a headline. In broadcast news only some items are headlined. And yet, whereas the linguistic properties of print headlines have been much studied, almost no attention has been given to broadcast headlines. This article uses a corpus of headlines from BBC television news to explore their discursive form and function. It isolates a basic structure of {heading (+supplement)} for television news headlines and delineates a repertoire of patterns through which the structure is realised. In doing so, it suggests that the core function of television news headlines is to engage with the audience by projecting aspects of their news values forward through the programme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three experiments investigated the role of source information (i.e., who said what) in readers' comprehension of short informational texts. Based on the Discrepancy-Induced Source Comprehension assumption (Braasch, Rouet, Vibert, & Britt, 2012), we hypothesized that readers would be more likely to make use of source information when summarizing stories that included discrepant statements. Readers would also memorize source information more accurately. Experiments 1 and 2 found that American and French college students were more likely to refer to source information when they summarized news reports containing discrepant assertions. A detailed content analysis of the summaries also indicated that students use hedging and several other tactics to resolve contradictions. Experiment 3 replicated Braasch et al.'s finding that sources of discrepant stories were more likely to be recalled than sources of consistent stories. Experiment 3 also extended these findings using longer texts and a different reading task. Altogether the data support the Documents Model framework of multiple source comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Formal literature reviews are a critical appraisal of a subject and are not only an academic requirement but essential when planning a research project and for placing research findings into context. Understanding the landscape in which you are working will enable you to make a valuable contribution to your field. Writing a literature review requires a range of skills to gather, sort, evaluate and summarise peer-reviewed published data into a relevant and informative unbiased narrative. Digital access to research papers, academic texts, review articles, reference databases and public data sets are all sources of information that are available to enrich your review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Text Summarization is condensing of text such that, redundant data are removed and important information is extracted and represented in the shortest way possible. With the explosion of the abundant data present on social media, it has become important to analyze this text for seeking information and use it for the advantage of various applications and people. From past few years, this task of automatic summarization has stirred the interest among communities of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, especially when it comes to opinion summarization. Opinions play a pivotal role in decision making in the society. Other's opinions and suggestions are the base for an individual or a company while making decisions. In this paper, we propose a graph based technique that generates summaries of redundant opinions and uses sentiment analysis to combine the statements. The summaries thus generated are abstraction based summaries and are well formed to convey the gist of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Students' feedback is an essential part of improving competence and performance of students' own translation abilities. This feedback provides real information for teachers and trainers to consider in their teaching professional development. However, in the field of translation, as for several other disciplines, knowledge, practice, and even curricula should be influenced by student feedback, and in turn, students' competence, performance and expectations can be directly affected by what they are actually exposed to in the classrooms. This study tries to penetrate deep through the formative feedback to arrive at the main influential factors behind the difficulties that students face in translation. The study explores certain gaps between some aspects of course content and the actual needs of students as translators. It also investigates the factors behind the difficulties that students face in translation. These factors can be summarized as follows: (1) the subject matter of most courses is irrelevant; (2) the actual needs of student translators are not always addressed; (3) gaps exist among the three components of the curriculum--language skills, linguistic skills and translation skills, and (4) the absence of translation training or practice outside the college in real situations. The study tries to clarify the identified problems and suggest some solutions to address these gaps in order to help students develop into professional translators. The study suggests the need for a radical change in the subject matter of language skills courses and the whole curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to determine whether, as a result of collaborative-online reading of a chapter from a book of an academic nature, the quality of the collaborative summary that the readers would write would be higher than that written by readers who would both read the same chapter and write a summary in a face-to-face setting. In this study we examined the difference between the summaries written by participants from two groups, each group was divided into subgroups of 3 participants who had read collaboratively a chapter of a book, and collaborated on writing a summary. The participants of the experimental group read the chapter as it appeared in a website for collaborative reading built especially for this study and the participants were asked to summarize the chapter on a shared online digital document. The participants of the control group were asked to read the chapter face-to-face and to collaboratively summarize it in hand writing. The quality of the summaries was evaluated with a tool developed by Rivard (2001). This tool was developed to measure the quality of the summaries. In our study the main and secondary ideas that were supposed to be included in the participants' summaries were identified by three literature teachers using ten different criteria and the summaries were analyzed by two other judges based on these criteria. The findings indicated that there were significant differences in the majority of the writing indicators being measured with the tool. The findings indicated that collaborative-online reading and writing produce a summary of a higher quality than one read and hand written collaboratively face-to-face. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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T.S. Papola, who passed away in November 2015, was one of the founding members of the Editorial Board of the International Labour Review in 2007. But he was above all a pioneering figure of labour economics in India, whose influential work has gained wide international recognition. Drawing on the author's personal acquaintance and collaboration with Professor Papola, this short article highlights some of his major contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study applied speech-to-text recognition (STR) technology to assist non-native English-speaking participants to learn at a seminar given in English. How participants used transcripts generated by the STR technology for learning and their perceptions toward the STR were explored. Three main findings are presented in this study. Most participants perceived that transcripts were useful for learning. Nineteen learning strategies to use transcripts were discovered; transcripts were used to understand the topic presented, to find an answer to a question and to write summaries. Participants with different learning achievements demonstrated different learning behaviours when using transcripts. That is, some participants used transcripts effectively (i.e. studied them thoroughly and used the most important parts of them for summaries along with elaborating ideas) but some participants did not (i.e. studied transcripts superficially and employed the copy-and-paste method to complete summaries). Therefore, this study suggests how to teach participants to use transcripts by employing learning strategies meaningfully. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Employing a systemic functional approach to the analysis of cohesive elements, this paper investigates the impact of recurrent propositions in texts on readers' perceptions of their gist in a study of hard news and their summaries written by competent readers. The results show that the number of times propositions recur in news does not correspond to readers' perceptions of their degrees of importance to the gist of news in which they occur, pointing to the limited role of repetition in identifying important propositions. This study also shows that two factors, namely the textual positions of propositions occurring in news, and the relationships between different propositions, played an important part when readers examined whether propositions were important to the gist of news in which they occur. The study complements the corpus-driven approaches to phraseology by extending the scope of phraseological combinations to include paraphrases and other semantic relations in the identification of identical and similar propositions recurring in individual texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]