Academic Articles & Research Papers

Aproximación pragmática a los conceptos de acto de habla y de acción comunicativa

Resumen La pragmática es la disciplina lingüística que estudia el lenguaje en su uso y en la acción en que ocurre. Aquí se evidencia una clara relación entre acción y lenguaje, por cuanto el uso del lenguaje en la comunicación se con...

Household food security, food hygiene practices and their interaction on self-reported health among pregnant women in the Bono region of Ghana: a population-based cluster survey

Abstract Background Food security and food hygiene practices can negatively influence health. Poor food hygiene and food insecurity risk poor health. Studies have investigated the direct associations of food security and food hygiene practi...

Parallelly Running k-Nearest Neighbor Classification Over Semantically Secure Encrypted Data in Outsourced Environments

Cloud services with powerful resources are popularly used to manage exponentially increasing data and to carry out data mining to analyze the data. However, a data mining involving query can cause privacy problems by disclosing both the dat...

Investigating Undergraduate Students’ Learning Styles and Preferences in English as a Second Language: The Case of a Public University in Ghana

This study examines selected undergraduate students’ learning styles and preferences at a public university in Ghana. These participants were Level 100 students pursuing the Bachelor of Information Technology programme. The study sought to ...

Teleparallel Minkowski Spacetime with Perturbative Approach for Teleparallel Gravity on a Proper Frame

A complete perturbation theory suitable for teleparallel gravity is developed. The proposed perturbation scheme takes into account perturbations of the coframe, the metric, and the spin-connection, while ensuring that the resulting perturbe...

An Algebraic Characterization of Prefix-Strict Languages

Let Σ+ be the set of all finite words over a finite alphabet Σ. A word u is called a strict prefix of a word v, if u is a prefix of v and there is no other way to show that u is a subword of v. A language L⊆Σ+ is said to be prefix-strict, i...

Influência do assento da cadeira adaptada na execução de uma tarefa de manuseio Influence of the seat surface of an adapted chair on the performance of a manipulation task

Este estudo teve como objetivo verificar a influência da flexibilidade da superfície de assento da cadeira na velocidade e no tempo despendido por alunos com paralisia cerebral espástica durante a execução de uma tarefa de manuseio de um ob...

The Architecture of an Automatic eHealth Platform With Mobile Client for Cerebrovascular Disease Detection

BackgroundIn recent years, cerebrovascular disease has been the leading cause of death and adult disability in the world. This study describes an efficient approach to detect cerebrovascular disease. ObjectiveIn order to improve...

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics in Seychelles patients diagnosed with dementia

Background: dementia has now become a major cause of death, leading to disability and dependence. Objective: to characterize clinical and epidemiological variables in patients with dementia in Seychelles, from July 2018 to August 2019. Me...

Learning Statistics by Doing Statistics

To help students develop statistical reasoning, a traditional introductory statistics course was modified to incorporate a semester-long sequence of projects, with written and oral reports of the results. Student test scores improved dramat...

Regional, subregional and country-level full vaccination coverage in children aged 12–23 months for 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a global analysis using Demographic and Health Survey data

Objective This study estimated the proportion of children aged 12–23 months who were fully vaccinated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), explored geographical disparities across subregions and countries, and identified country-level factors assoc...

INFLUÊNCIA DA MATURAÇÃO DO FRUTO NA GERMINAÇÃO DE SEMENTES DE NIM (Azadirachta indica a. juss.)

Consapevolezza dello spazio e conoscenza giuridica. Due fasi nella regolazione delle encomiendas indigene a Tucumán (regione andina meridionale, XVI e XVII secolo)

Supponendo che lo spazio sia un fattore determinante per la produzione o lo sviluppo del diritto, proponiamo che i regolamenti sulle encomiendas indiane nell’America coloniale fossero sempre locali e non generali. Non cercavano di replicare...

Influence of proxy data uncertainty on data assimilation for the past climate

Data assimilation (DA) is an emerging topic in palaeoclimatology and one of the key challenges in this field. Assimilating proxy-based continental mean temperature reconstructions into the MPI-ESM model showed a lack of information propagat...

PENGARUH INTERVAL TRAINING TERHADAP KECEPATAN

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh interval training terhadap kecepatan. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah anak SSB BBC Batung Taba Kota Padang U-13, yang berjumlah 52 orang. Pengambilan sampel dengan (purposive sampling) de...

The geography of gentrification

This paper revisits the ‘geography of gentrification’ thinking through the literature on comparative urbanism. I argue that given the ‘mega-gentrification’ affecting many cities in the Global South gentrification researchers need to adopt a...

Nested Within or Swallowed Up: Le dilemme des chercheurs francophones en pédagogie postsecondaire au Canada

La littérature dans le domaine de la recherche en pédagogie postsecondaire (RePP) a pris une expansion importante au cours des dernières décennies, particulièrement dans les espaces anglophones tels que l’Amérique du Nord, l’Europe de l’Oue...

Visual Programming per l'interfaccia utente di GEOPOI 2.0 in Sogei

Da qualche tempo è  stato  coniato  il  termine  mass customization (personalizzazione di massa) che vuo-le indicare la strategia per la produzione di beni e servizi orientata a soddisfare i bisogni individuali dei Clienti e  contemporaneam...

On assemblages and geography

In this paper we explore what assemblage thinking offers social-spatial theory by asking what questions or problems assemblage responds to or opens up. Used variously as a concept, ethos and descriptor, assemblage thinking can be placed wit...

Assemblage and geography

In this introduction to the special section on ‘Assemblage and geography’, we reflect on the different routes and uses through which ‘assemblage’ is being put to work in contemporary geographical scholarship. The purpose of the collection i...