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Using data from 88 students, 20 advisers, and 24 hirers, this article examines the rhetorical persona of the "Professional" in résumés and cover letters. Participants often explained professionalism by its inverse: items, formats, and language that are labeled "unprofessional." Their discussions suggest that professionalism can be a problematic requirement for applicants with work history or formats associated with feminized sexuality, or for applicants whose names trigger biases about White English Vernacular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article unpacks the ideologies of "professionalism" by examining how international and multilingual identities are negotiated through the enactment of workplace genres. Relying on autoethnographic narrative vignettes that highlight the affective labor inherent in such identity negotiation, this article moves beyond traditional workplace contexts to explore familial sites of intergenerational knowledge construction. The author argues that "professionalism" for multilingual communicators is bound by native-speaker paradigms and colonial language ideologies that complicate how expertise is voiced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychological Science is a respected journal in the field of psychology that aims to publish rigorous and diverse research findings. The journal is committed to transparency, diversity, and inclusivity, and is implementing changes to increase equity and inclusion. They are introducing public online "office hours" and diversifying the editorial board to provide assistance to authors who may not have had access to relevant resources. The journal also emphasizes the importance of maintaining rigor while acknowledging the limitations of research. They are addressing the need for increased transparency and accountability by making more information public about their evaluation criteria, introducing Registered Reports to reduce bias, enforcing conflict-of-interest rules, and providing readers with access to peer-review histories. The goal is to improve the quality and diversity of articles published and create a more equitable and just process. [Extracted from the article]

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In this paper we describe a framework for teaching students when they should, or should not use generative AI such as ChatGPT. Generative AI has created a fundamental shift in how students can complete their class assignments, and other tasks such as building resumes and creating cover letters, and we believe it is imperative that we teach students when the use of generative AI is appropriate, and when it is not appropriate (i.e., considered cheating). Framework development is based off the 2x2 Product-Market matrix introduced by Ansoff in 1965. Our initial pass at the framework was piloted with colleagues, and then followed with a focus group of students to refine the framework. We then used the framework in an MBA class to test its efficacy and gather qualitative feedback. Using the results, we further refined the framework and then used it to teach two general undergraduate business classes as a rudimentary test of generalizability across students. The qualitative results were positive. The framework helps educators understand when to use, or not use ChatGPT, and provides a way to teach students about the same. We have found that using the framework in class generates interesting discussions about the use of generative AI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This activity offers students a way to engage in cover letter writing, familiarizing themselves with the style and content of these documents in a creative, fictional scenario. Students will both prepare letters and evaluate them, with options to vary the gamification of the activity included. During the debrief, students assess their experience and identify practices they can emulate in their own letter writing. Business Communication, Organizational Communication. Students will learn how to write descriptively and precisely through the preparation of mock cover letters. Students will learn how to evaluate professional documents through peer critique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are currently transforming the field of diagnostics, enabling unprecedented accuracy and efficiency in disease detection, classification, and treatment planning. This Special Issue, entitled "Artificial Intelligence Advances for Medical Computer-Aided Diagnosis", presents a curated collection of cutting-edge research that explores the integration of AI and ML technologies into various diagnostic modalities. The contributions presented here highlight innovative algorithms, models, and applications that pave the way for improved diagnostic capabilities across a range of medical fields, including radiology, pathology, genomics, and personalized medicine. By showcasing both theoretical advancements and practical implementations, this Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in AI-driven diagnostics, fostering further research and collaboration in this dynamic and impactful area of healthcare. We have published a total of 12 research articles in this Special Issue, all collected between March 2023 and December 2023, comprising 1 Editorial cover letter, 9 regular research articles, 1 review article, and 1 article categorized as "other". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epigraphy is witnessing a growing integration of artificial intelligence, notably through its subfield of machine learning (ML), especially in tasks like extracting insights from ancient inscriptions. However, scarce labeled data for training ML algorithms severely limits current techniques, especially for ancient scripts like Old Aramaic. Our research pioneers an innovative methodology for generating synthetic training data tailored to Old Aramaic letters. Our pipeline synthesizes photo-realistic Aramaic letter datasets, incorporating textural features, lighting, damage, and augmentations to mimic real-world inscription diversity. Despite minimal real examples, we engineer a dataset of 250 000 training and 25 000 validation images covering the 22 letter classes in the Aramaic alphabet. This comprehensive corpus provides a robust volume of data for training a residual neural network (ResNet) to classify highly degraded Aramaic letters. The ResNet model demonstrates 95% accuracy in classifying real images from the 8th century BCE Hadad statue inscription. Additional experiments validate performance on varying materials and styles, proving effective generalization. Our results validate the model's capabilities in handling diverse real-world scenarios, proving the viability of our synthetic data approach and avoiding the dependence on scarce training data that has constrained epigraphic analysis. Our innovative framework elevates interpretation accuracy on damaged inscriptions, thus enhancing knowledge extraction from these historical resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While there are benefits to collaborative research, navigating group dynamics can also bring challenges, particularly for doctoral students and early career academics who are new to the research process. These dynamics extend beyond initial manuscript submission and include processes associated with interpreting reviewer comments, deciding upon and making revisions, and developing clear author response documents through the revision process. Herein, the authors overview one systematic and replicable approach to managing revisions. Steps include (a) read, set aside, and return to the reviewer comments; (b) document initial reactions to comments; (c) collectively review the comments and decide upon direction; (d) coordinate revisions to the manuscript; (e) craft final response statements; and (f) prepare a resubmission cover letter to the editor. Recommendations will be provided for approaching the revision, including how to revise the manuscript to highlight edits, and suggestions for tone and approach, particularly when disagreeing with a reviewer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the Von Bezold effect, in which chromatic assimilation is manifested, which shifts the appearance of the color of the sample according to the color of the surrounding background. The effect was first discovered and described by the German physicist and meteorologist Wilhelm von Bezold (1837-1907), who noticed that changing just one color in a sample containing several colors can completely change the perception of the entire composition as well as the experience of all colors. This paper presents the results of a psychophysical visual experiment in which the effect of the Von Bezold effect was tested on originally designed samples of graphic characters. 30 subjects of both sexes took part in the experiment and evaluated the strength of the Von Bezold effect on the given samples. On the samples, the letters of the letter T are constructed, which are located on two bases of different colors. The letters are covered with thin stripes that are painted in the color of the opposite background. The experiment determined a very strong effect of the Bezold effect on the described samples, which was also confirmed by statistical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online submission portals for scholarly journal manuscripts regularly include space for a covering letter or its equivalent. But why should that opportunity mark the first contact between author and editor? This article reimagines the submission-accompanying covering letter by exploring the value of earlier outreach and correspondence between authors and editors. For authors planning submissions to journals in the humanities and humanities-adjacent social sciences, especially, this article explains the purpose and practice of initiating contact via query letter after manuscript conceptualization but before manuscript composition. Following a positively received query letter, a covering letter becomes a straightforward letter of transmittal accompanying an anticipated submission that an editor should be predisposed to welcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a guide to creating a high-quality cover letter for academic medicine positions. The cover letter is often overlooked but plays a crucial role in applications for career positions, leadership roles, and awards. The article emphasizes the importance of tailoring the cover letter to the specific position and highlights key elements such as the header, salutation, introductory paragraph, middle paragraphs, and concluding paragraph. It also advises against using artificial intelligence programs to draft cover letters but suggests using them for reviewing and providing feedback. Overall, the article serves as a valuable resource for individuals at any career stage. [Extracted from the article]

Background: In today's competitive job market, pharmacists must have a well-crafted curriculum vitae (CV), cover letter, and personal statement. However, non-native English speakers may face challenges in crafting effective job application documents. Jordan is one such country where English is a second language for many, and little is known about the CV/job application writing skills of Jordanian pharmacists. Therefore, this study examined Jordanian pharmacists' ability to write job applications cover letters, and personal statements in English and investigated the association between several demographics and professional variables and the readability index of cover letters and personal statements. Methods: This study aimed to investigate Jordanian pharmacists' ability to write job applications cover letters, and personal statements in English and evaluate the readability of their personal statements and cover letters. The data were blindly and independently reviewed by two researchers. The readability of the cover letters and personal statements was assessed using an online calculator that assigns a readability index score. A readability score of 7–12 was considered "target", while scores above 12 or below 7 were considered "complicated" or "simple", respectively. The relationship between readability index scores and other variables was analyzed using the chi-square test with a statistical significance level of 0.05. Results: The study recruited 592 pharmacists. Most applicants, specifically 62.3%, were female, and 60.0% of them graduated more than six months before submitting their job applications. While 78.2% of the applications included a personal statement, only 34.8% included a cover letter, and 27.2% provided both. Of the 206 cover letters written in English, 43.2% were tailored, and 80.6% were structured. The study also found that the provision of an official photo was associated with providing a cover letter (P < 0.001, Phi(φ) = 0.14) while providing a structured cover letter was associated with including a personal statement (P < 0.001, Phi (φ) = 0.24). Only 102 cover letters and 65 personal statements had readability index scores within the target range. Conclusion: In this study, most Jordanian pharmacists undervalue the importance of cover letters and personal statements and lack job application writing skills. The study also highlighted the need for improved pharmacists' English proficiency to write effective job application documents in Jordan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writing for publication will be central to students' future careers, so learning this skill should be integral to their graduate training. In a recent graduate seminar, we set up an assignment for which students would write a digital review (DR) and receive periodic feedback on their work through an innovative mock peer-review roundtable workshop. Each student wrote a DR intended for actual publication in the journal Advances in Archaeological Practice. Students worked closely with the instructor and the journal editor on their individual topics, outlines, and abstracts. They also peer-reviewed each other's drafts and discussed their feedback as part of the roundtable workshop, which simulated real reviewers. Finally, each student wrote cover letters and prepared images for submission to the journal. This exercise demystified the peer-review process for students who had little prior knowledge about publication, prepared students for responding to reviewer comments from varying viewpoints, and helped students understand the additional steps involved in publication. Although it was challenging to scale this exercise to a large class, we hope that others will also try and share results from these types of authentic real-world training experiments to advance graduate pedagogy in our discipline and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Despite decades of research and intervention efforts, gender-based occupational segregation remains a significant problem. An emerging body of research has suggested that one way women overcome gender discrimination when applying for male-dominated jobs is by deliberately managing gender impressions. However, social role theory and research on prescriptive stereotypes have suggested that these attempts to manage gender may backfire. In this research, we theorize that, while women actively respond to anticipated sexism using social identity-based impression-management (SIM) strategies (e.g., attempting to appear less feminine in cover letters), these actions can actually backfire because they clash with prescriptive gender stereotypes. Across three studies, we investigate the motivations, techniques, and outcomes of managing gender in job applications for different kinds of jobs. We find that women, but not men, manage gender when applying for gender-incongruent (i.e., male-dominated) jobs by using less feminine language, and that, paradoxically, they are less likely to be hired when they do so. The current research contributes to our understanding of the consequences of SIM strategies and shows that women's coping behavior in response to existing gender inequalities in the labor market is a novel and ironic mechanism through which occupational gender-segregation is perpetuated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The practical purpose of teaching a foreign language in this field is to master the types of speech activities and to form the skills and abilities of oral (speaking and listening comprehension) and written (reading and writing) communication in a foreign language. The purpose of receiving or giving information creates the need for communication. Thus, in reading, a content plan (the meaning of the text) and a procedural plan (how to read the text and make it sound) are distinguished. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though scholars have explored the impact of familial work experience (FWE) posthire, research has yet to determine the role of such experience during the selection process. Drawing from Attribution Theory and research on nepotism and family business dynamics, we suggest that the presence of FWE on an applicant's selection materials will lead to reduced perceptions of qualifications and hireability. Through two online experiments (N1 = 170, N2 = 251), we found mixed support for this proposition. In our first study focused on cover letters, we found that applicants who reported FWE were not appraised differently than those who did not. In our second study focused on letters of recommendation, however, we found that applicants who reported FWE were perceived as less qualified and less hireable. Moreover, we found that the level of job (i.e., service vs. managerial) moderates these relations, such that managerial applicants with FWE on their letter of recommendation were perceived as less hireable than those who did not. Implications for research and practice are discussed, and future research directions are offered. Key points: Familial work experience (FWE) is obtained when an employee works for an organization owned and operated by their family. Here, we investigated the role that FWE possesses in influencing hiring parties' perceptions of applicant qualification and hireability.We find that FWE reported on letters of recommendation can negatively impact perceptions of an applicant's qualification and hireability.FWE may be more detrimental if reported in ways that make kinship connections particularly salient, such as in letters of recommendation written by family members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Animals must adapt sensory responses to an ever-changing environment for survival. Such sensory modulation is especially critical in a threatening situation, in which animals often promote aversive responses to, among others, visual stimuli. Recently, threatened Drosophila has been shown to exhibit a defensive internal state. Whether and how threatened Drosophila promotes visual aversion, however, remains elusive. Here we report that mechanical threats to Drosophila transiently gate aversion from an otherwise neutral visual object. We further identified the neuropeptide tachykinin, and a single cluster of neurons expressing it ("Tk-GAL42 ∩ Vglut neurons"), that are responsible for gating visual aversion. Calcium imaging analysis revealed that mechanical threats are encoded in Tk-GAL42 ∩ Vglut neurons as elevated activity. Remarkably, we also discovered that a visual object is encoded in Tk-GAL42 ∩ Vglut neurons as θ oscillation, which is causally linked to visual aversion. Our data reveal how a single cluster of neurons adapt organismal sensory response to a threatening situation through a neuropeptide and a combination of rate/temporal coding schemes. A brief (maximum 250 characters, including spaces) summary; Please provide this summary in your cover letter. Animals often promote visual aversion in a threatening situation for survival. Tsuji et al. report in Drosophila that a single cluster of Tachykinergic neurons translate mechanical threats to gating of visual aversion through θ oscillation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document is a correction notice for an article titled "A systematic review of experimentally tested implementation strategies across health and human service settings: evidence from 2010-2022." The correction states that there were errors in the supplementary materials of the original article, where irrelevant files were mistakenly included. The correct supplementary materials are now provided with this correction. The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused. The article was authored by Laura Ellen Ashcraft, David E. Goodrich, Joachim Hero, Angela Phares, Rachel L. Bachrach, Deirdre A. Quinn, Nabeel Qureshi, Natalie C. Ernecof, Lisa G. Lederer, Leslie Page Scheunemann, Shari S. Rogal, and Matthew J. Chinman. [Extracted from the article]

Pedagogies: An International Journal is seeking short empirical research reports and pedagogic reflections that highlight innovative pedagogies or theoretical frameworks with implications for educational practice. These "class notes" can present ongoing research or new pedagogic innovations, and should contribute new understandings of teaching and learning theories. Manuscripts should be between 2,000 to 3,000 words and adhere to academic conventions. Submissions can be made through the journal's submission site, and any questions can be directed to pedagogies@nie.edu.sg. The editors for the Class Notes section are Rebecca Heaton, Yann Shiou Ong, and Natasha Anne Rappa. [Extracted from the article]

Our ode to cover letters begins now.... Preparing a Cover Letter In the opening poem, we hoped to hook readers into the somewhat "ordinary" topic of cover letters. Thus, in highlighting key elements to include in cover letters, as well as providing some suggestions of things to avoid, the literature offers useful advice on how to prepare strong cover letters to accompany initial submissions. I So much sweat and effort - our hard work is almost done i I To craft a paper second to none i I Months of polishing our research design i I And perfecting every line. i I But every moment was worth it, we are ready for the peer-review process to begin i , I So excited to send it in!. [Extracted from the article]

In this brief mentoring corner article, we focus on defining what different editorial decisions mean (e.g., accept with revisions; revise and resubmit; reject: revise and resubmit), discussing factors you might consider when deciding what to do after receiving a decision (e.g., resubmit or move on) and considering how to best approach the revisions. We also provide guidance on effective communication with editors, including an example of a successful response to review table and cover letter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé and cover letter formats have altered with the many digital platforms available (e.g., LinkedIn). However, constructing one's identity as an ideal candidate is still the main goal for career-oriented documents and should be the focus of related lessons. The classroom activity system mediates the résumés and cover letters students create in business and technical communication courses. Students write these assignments for teachers, who are outside of professional activity systems. Because students are not immersed in the professional contexts for which they write these career-oriented assignments, they have difficulty constructing effective identities for being ideal candidates for assumed positions. Although résumés and cover letters are ubiquitous assignments for professional communication courses, little research has looked at how students struggle with composing a professional identity. Most résumé research analyzes materials submitted to employers after applicants leave school. The author reviews student texts in this genre and argues that careeroriented assignments are actually a classroom-specific genre with little connection to the assumed professional contexts to which students aspire. The author concludes that students should focus on more immediate attainable goals rather than future career goals many years away. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify what attention science pays to CSR communication for the process of career orientation and employer decision-making by the critical sought after top talent. Design/methodology/approach: The review is structured as a systematic literature review of the CSR–HRM intersection. In 11 EBSCO online databases one of several "CSR-terms" was combined with one of several "HRM-terms". Findings: Although CSR has long been recognized as a relevant factor for organizational attractiveness (Greening and Turban, 2000) and talent attraction and its importance is reflected in the ongoing "war for talent" (Chambers et al., 1998) in which (prospective) leaders are considered a critical human resource for corporate success (Ansoff, 1965), few contributions are focusing on successfully recruited future leaders/high potentials. Practical implications: There is a knowledge gap about the importance of CSR in high potential recruiting, which influences both resource-strong decisions on the company side and the communication behavior of applicants. Companies only know about a general CSR relevance for employees and applicants. Accordingly, no attention-optimized CSR communication can take place. In the highly competitive battle for the attention of high potentials, this leads to undifferentiated communication formats. At the same time, high potentials may not receive the CSR information of interest to them from an employer at the relevant time and therefore cannot present an optimal fit in the cover letters and thus cannot prove themselves as ideal candidates. Originality/value: CSR is not only an obligatory field of communication for companies, but also a special opportunity in recruiting the young value-oriented generations Y and Z. The research on CSR communication in the course of their career decision has not been covered in a review so far, the research situation is thus explicitly addressed for the first time and practical implications for the post COVID-19 employer brand and recruiting communication are addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the job market today, people with a (very) good knowledge of a foreign language, such as German, are in demand. Candidates are required to submit their application documents in this language. Unfortunately, having grammatical correctness and a rich vocabulary are not enough to write a job application and a CV. In order to prepare these documents correctly, it is necessary to know the differences between one's own and the other culture, in this case the culture of German-speaking countries. The aim of this paper is to present the findings of an exploratory study examining errors students made naming and expressing selected elements of the non-lingual reality that represent a specific kind of reflection of new and often foreign realities in covering letters and CVs. Due to the limited framework of this paper, it is focused on intercultural aspects. While these seem to be very simple, they may cause difficulties because of the characteristic way they are presented in the acquired language, such as the use of courtesy rules, the recording of the date, giving of personal data, writing about foreign languages skills or providing information about a driving licence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on previous research about gender differences we investigated whether varying language utilization across gender can be found in standardized text documents such as job applications. To this end, 581 cover letters, CVs and complete application documents were analyzed using linguistic inquiry and word count. Some language differences between men and women could be shown, even if as expected, there were smaller effects than in comparative studies in less formalized contexts. These differences were specific for cover letters and CVs. A differentiated examination showed that gender differences in the cover letters were largely determined by function words. In contrast, differences in the CVs were mainly due to differences in content words. The findings add the context of recruiting to lend support to the framework of gender differences in language across different contexts. Implications for candidates, recruiters and companies are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With advancements in computing powers and the overall quality of images captured on everyday cameras, a much wider range of possibilities has opened in various scenarios. This fact has several implications for deaf and dumb people as they have a chance to communicate with a greater number of people much easier. More than ever before, there is a plethora of info about sign language usage in the real world. Sign languages, and by extension the datasets available, are of two forms, isolated sign language and continuous sign language. The main difference between the two types is that in isolated sign language, the hand signs cover individual letters of the alphabet. In continuous sign language, entire words' hand signs are used. This paper will explore a novel deep learning architecture that will use recently published large pre-trained image models to quickly and accurately recognize the alphabets in the American Sign Language (ASL). The study will focus on isolated sign language to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve a high level of classification accuracy on the data, thereby showing that interpreters can be implemented in the real world. The newly proposed Mobile-NetV2 architecture serves as the backbone of this study. It is designed to run on end devices like mobile phones and infer signals (what does it infer) from images in a relatively short amount of time. With the proposed architecture in this paper, the classification accuracy of 98.77% in the Indian Sign Language (ISL) and American Sign Language (ASL) is achieved, outperforming the existing state-of-the-art systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The risk of bias in academic publishing is present from the first stages of the publishing process when the author creates an account and submits the manuscript, which becomes subject to the rights and power of journal editors. The author's disclosure of certain personal information risks exposing him/her to biases for or against certain groups of authors. To reduce these potential biases, reviewers and editors involved in the assessment of author works should be prevented from accessing authors' information until the final decision regarding publication has been made. Some information, such as authors' ORCID details, can be requested after the article is accepted for publication. Standardizing appeal procedures and establishing protocols for handling author appeals is a necessary step in the effort to reduce publication bias. Regulations for the cover letter to editor should also be put in place to ensure that authors' personal information is not disclosed, either explicitly or implicitly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While serving on a search committee at my institution, I started thinking about what I wish someone had told me when I was trying to break into the field of academic librarianship. And at the top of the list is how to write a cover letter that will increase your chance of getting hired. This article contains a list of nine tips about how the hiring process works at one public university in Virginia. Readers will learn how to interpret the qualifications list in a job ad, how to link their experiences to those qualifications, and which rules they can ignore (like one-page cover letters). An example cover letter is included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tackles the role and the advantages of studying job interviews in business communication and proposes several activities and strategies that can be implemented in English Business Communication courses and seminars. The first sections of the article deal with certain theoretical issues related to the concepts of communication (in general), communication in the business environment and job interviews. It further proposes several types of activities that can be employed in order to teach students about job interviews, such as roles and interview simulations, analysis of real interviews, analysis of CVs and cover letters, research projects and presentations, writing and revision exercises, vocabulary exercises on the topic of job interviews, discussions with specialists from the field, online resources and authentic materials. It is expected that the knowledge about employment interviews, implemented in ESP courses and seminars provide students the skills and tools required for the success on the workforce market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Outsourcing is a common practice among both private and public sector organizations. Materials and methods: A cross sectional study was carried out to study the status of outsourcing of services in government teaching hospitals of India. For this purpose, the administrators (medical superintendents) of Govt. teaching hospitals were subjected to a questionnaire after properly being identified by the researcher by a covering letter written by principal investigator. The questionnaire was adopted from the original research work of Kantar 1984, Bernstein 1991, Mark1994. The questionnaire was validated using a pilot study. The questionnaire was sent to medical superintendents/administrators of teaching hospitals on their postal address and also on their email (wherever the same was available). Results: It was observed that the services that were outsourced in majority of hospitals were security, sanitation, dietetics, pharmacy and canteen. The services that were outsourced less frequently were nursing, radiology, manifold. Most of the administrators were of the opinion that outsourcing results in reduction of cost and freed the management to focus on key issues. Conclusion: Outsourcing of healthcare services needs to be explored and more research needs to be done in this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is known that in the Ottoman Empire, no official attempt was made to compile Turkish words used among the people. However, archival documents show otherwise, there were two unknown official attempts, one in the time of Abdülhamid and the other at the Second Constitutional Period. The subject of compiling Turkish words used among the people first started in 1894 with the proposal of an unknown person named Ethem, who introduced himself as a Bosnian immigrant. As a result of the personal initiative of Grand Vizier Cevad Pasha, a circular was sent to the provincial education administrations that the Turkish words used among the people were compiled and sent to the center by recording them in the tables. However, this first attempt was inconclusive due to the skepticism of Sultan Abdülhamid and the indifference of the Ministry of Education. The issue of compiling the words that lived in the folk language but were not included in the dictionaries was brought up again because of the initiatives of Celal Sahir, the director of Bilgi Magazine, during the Second Constitutional Period. In 1914, a new circular was sent to the provinces regarding the compilation of Turkish words. Compilation charts began to arrive from the provinces to the Ministry of Education. However, while the cover letters about the compilation charts from the provinces remained in the Ministry of Education, the charts were sent to Celal Sahir. The compilation charts were requested from Celal Sahir by the Ministry of Education later; but there is no record in the file about what Celal Sahir replied or whether he answered. Celal Sahir did not make any statement on this issue in the following period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ecological and economic impacts caused in Portugal by invasive species are extremely harmful to terrestrial ecosystems.The species Acacia dealbata is considered as probably the most aggressive plant in terrestrial systems, being indicated as invasive by decree-law nº 565/1999. Given this characteristic, the objective of the research was to map and analyze the dynamics of forest occupation by A. dealbata in Continental Portugal through remote sensing. The methodology is based on several existing soil use and occupation maps for continental Portugal, namely: CLC1990, CLC2018, CLC - Corine Land Cover and COS1995, COS2015, COS - Soil Cover Letter. It was concluded that it is possible to identify invaded areas and elaborate a cartography, thus identifying the spots of A. deabata, although the certainty of classification is high, the certainty of use is low since the species is confused with pastures and with undergrowth, however, as there is cartography of land use and occupation where the larger patches are referenced and orthophotomaps available on the internet (Google Earth, Bing Maps) it is possible to update this cartography, using it as a mask and isolating only Acacia dealbata patches, significantly increasing the certainty of using the classification by remote sensing techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: Real‐time brain stimulation is a powerful technique that continues to gain importance in the field of sleep and cognition. In this special issue, we collected 14 articles about real‐time stimulation during sleep, including one review, 12 research articles and one letter covering both human and rodent research from various fields. We hope this special issue sparks greater interest and inspires fellow sleep researchers and clinicians to develop new ideas in the exciting topic of real‐time stimulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The hospitality industry faces a gender gap in leadership. Further research is needed to explore if gender stereotypes emerge naturally in applicant materials, like resumes and cover letters. This paper examines the use of agentic and communal language in men and women's self-descriptions in applicant materials, as well as differences in agentic and communal language in descriptions of successful leaders in the industry. Across Studies 1–3, women used more communal language than men in self-descriptions in applicant materials, though differences in agentic language did not emerge. Study 4 found that agentic characteristics were strongly associated with leadership in respondent descriptions of successful leaders in the industry. These findings suggest that gender stereotypes in selection contexts can be attributed to women using more communal language in applicant materials and highlight the need to assess potentially biased selection processes in the hospitality industry. • Women used different language than men in applicant materials. • Women used more communal language than men. • Masculine characteristics were strongly associated with leadership. • Results highlight the need to assess potentially biased selection processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A competitive advantage is the ability to stay ahead of one’s present or potential competition. This article will examine how first-year college students can create their own competitive advantage by preparing themselves not only academically but also professionally to position themselves for a successful career trajectory. The article will cover crafting professional job search documents, such as a résumé and a cover letter; the art of interviewing via various mediums (phone, live video, recorded video, in person, panel); and creating a professional brand through LinkedIn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article gives insights on how to write, submit, revise, and publish articles in scientific peer‐reviewed journals. I will focus on chemical engineering, but my suggestions apply to other natural sciences and engineering journals as well. I will start by discussing how to write the cover letter and the text of your article, emphasizing the importance of using clear language and highlighting the novelty of your results. I will then suggest how to prepare eye‐catching figures and tables that communicate your ideas effectively. Next, I will discuss the peer‐review process, explaining the roles of editors and reviewers, as well as how to revise your article and craft a rebuttal letter. I will also explain ethical misconduct in scientific publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author offers suggestions for writing a cover letter for an academic position. It mentions cover letter as a genre of academic writing means recognizing that it presents an opportunity to make an argument and cover letters show that the applicant has considered the needs of the hiring institution. It also mentions tempting to take a cover letter off the shelf and out of the electronic files.