Misalignment between second language (L2) self-perception and actual ability is often observed among L2 learners. In order to further understand this phenomenon, the current study investigated how the roles of individual differences (IDs; especially...
The study investigates the interplay among second language (L2) learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC), L2 self-confidence (L2SC), and academic self-concept (ASC) within a cohort of Vietnamese university students studying in the United King...
The L2 motivation self system (L2MSS) has been extensively researched in a variety of contexts, but few studies have delved into its relationship with international posture and the sustainable development of L2 proficiency in the COVID-19 era. To add...
The role that individual difference factors play in pragmatic learning behavior has received increasing attention in second-language (L2) pragmatics. However, there is a dearth of studies exploring the relationship between learners’ motivationa...
Learning English as a second language (ESL) has garnered significant attention from researchers and practitioners over the past few decades, with numerous ESL learning outcomes examined in the literature. However, self-sustained learning (SSL), a cru...
Approaches to writing play an important role in both the writing processes and outcomes. However, little is known about whether L2 writers adopt different combinations of approaches in academic writing contexts and what factors predict such combinati...
The present study pursued three objectives: (i) to examine whether self-access web-based instruction could significantly improve EFL students’ ability to formulate pragmatically appropriate email requests; (ii) to determine whether L2 proficien...
While past research has affirmed the supportive role of growth language mindset (GLM) in fostering L2 willingness to communicate (L2 WTC), there remains a scarcity of studies exploring how growth language mindset may predict L2 WTC. This study aimed...
E-learning has been an important learning approach in the information era by providing flexible environments and rich resources for learners. However, it also faces several challenges, the biggest one being that students need to have strong self-regu...
Little attention is paid to prosody in second language (L2) instruction, but computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) offers learners solutions to improve the perception and production of L2 suprasegmentals. In this study, we extend with acous...
Second language (L2) researchers have established that examining learners’ awareness of their own learning process and progress is essential. However, learners exposed to the same input in the classroom may differ in the way that they perform. This d...
Canines are useful in mammalian preclinical studies because they are larger than rodents and share many diseases with humans. Canine fetal fibroblast cells (CFFs) are an easily accessible source of somatic cells. However, they are easily driven to se...
The current study investigates self-repairs in the speech of three groups of Russian speakers: monolingual controls (N = 12) residing in the Russian Federation, for whom Russian is their first dominant language (L1); bilingual Russian–Hebrew sp...
Artemisia annua L., the primary source of the antimalarial compound artemisinin, is of great importance for malaria treatment. However, its self-incompatibility (SI) restricts selfing breeding and results in unstable artemisinin content which is vuln...
In their natural habitat, male Betta splendens are territorial resource defenders, whereas females are non-territorial opportunistic foragers. This ecological difference suggests that males may be more capable of delaying gratification for food rewar...
L-Cysteine is combined onto gold electrode to form a self-assembled monolayers modified electrode (L-Cys/Au SAMs) by taking advantage of strong sulfur-gold interaction. ATR-FTIR, SEM, cyclic voltammetry (CV) and impedance were used for the characteri...
We report the rheological behavior of aqueous solutions of a graft copolymer polyampholyte, constituted of polyacrylic acid (PAA) backbone grafted by Poly(L-lysine) (PAA-b-PLL). The graft copolymer self-assembles in aqueous media, forming a three-dim...
Radish (Raphanus sativus L.), a root vegetable belonging to the Brassicaceae family, is considered one of the representative crops displaying sporophytic self-incompatibility (SSI). The utilization of a self-incompatibility system in F1 breeding can...
Perovskite solar cells have been proven to enhance cell characteristics by introducing passivation materials that suppress defect formation. Defect states between the electron transport layer and the absorption layer reduce electron extraction and ca...
This study presents an unexplored method to produce formaldehyde-free MDF. Steam exploded Arundo donax L. (STEX-AD) and untreated wood fibers (WF) were mixed at different mixing rates (0/100, 50/50, and 100/0, respectively) and two series of boards w...
In this study, a sensing device employing a gold-coated quartz tuning fork (QTF) modified with a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of L-cysteine was evaluated for the sensitive detection of Cu2+ ions in aqueous solutions. Three copper (II) salts, CuSO4,...
Reading, as one of the four basic language skills, activates language learning. Tertiary-level students often undermine this opportunity and rarely read anything in addition to their course assignments. Rapid technological developments offer addition...
The accelerated integration of photovoltaic (PV) systems, particularly within Hybrid PV–Battery Storage Systems (PV-BSS), establishes a compelling need for advanced control strategies that are fundamental to achieving effective Energy Saving Ma...
13 October 2016
Background and objective: Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that heavily affects the patient's motor, cognitive, and psychological functions. Yet, very few studies have measured the impact of this disease on the pat...
The purpose of this study is to understand the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with celiac disease (CD) and analyze its main determinants. A transversal descriptive study of 738 patients with celiac disease was carried out. A serie...
23 August 2021
Maintaining people’s health based on their help-seeking behavior (HSB) regarding mild symptoms is essential. An effective HSB, especially self-management, can facilitate the attainment of appropriate healthcare resources and affect health outcomes su...
The aim of the current study was to develop and validate a new instrument that taps into learners’ self-image as a means of exploring language motivation, which plays a pivotal role in sustaining language learners’ efforts. A critical rev...
This article explores the motivation and engagement of adolescent non-Arab Muslim learners of Arabic (a-MLA) enrolled at Australian Islamic Schools (AIS). To this end, the ‘L2 Motivational Self System’ was used as a theoretical lens. This...
This study attempts to answer one straightforward question: “what is the relationship between students’ proficiency level and their willingness to communicate?”, i.e., their “readiness to enter into discourse at a particular time with a specific pers...
30 May 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has inhibited people’s help-seeking behaviors (HSBs). In particular, older people in rural communities experienced limited access to medical care, which negatively affected their quality of life (QOL). Within HSB, self-man...
The scarcity of opportunities to communicate in English in Japan proves a challenge for learners, as significant improvements in English as a Foreign Language) (EFL) listening and speaking will not materialize without consistent practice and a motiva...
Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) are peptides that can directly adapt to cell membranes and then permeate into cells. CPPs are usually covalently linked to the surface of nanocarriers to endow their permeability to the whole system. However, hybrids...
4 June 2021
(1) Objective: To investigate the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and self-esteem (SE) of a population with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) and to compare it with a non-affected control cohort. (2) Materials and methods: This study compris...
Recent advancements in polymer-assisted layer-by-layer (LbL) fabrication have revolutionized the development of wearable sensors for health monitoring. LbL self-assembly has emerged as a powerful and versatile technique for creating conformal, flexib...
In the liquid biofuel production process, free fatty acids are important precursors for biodiesel and bio-aviation fuel. Enzymatic hydrolysis to produce free fatty acids has attracted more and more attention. However, enzymatic hydrolysis requires en...
The fabrication of controlled supramolecular nanostructures via self-assembly of protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) was studied with enantiomerically pure l-arginine and d-arginine, and we have shown that stoichiometry controlled the morphology formed. The nan...
Superhydrophobic coatings were fabricated through a one-step electrochemical process onto the surface of 316L stainless steel samples. The presence of hierarchical structures at micro/nanoscale and manganese stearate into the coatings gave superhydro...
European plum cultivars (Prunus domestica L.) are hexaploid and partially self-fertile or self-sterile requiring compatible pollinizers with overlapping bloom times. Therefore, inter-planting of different pollinizer cultivars is recommended. In order...
Willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) is one of the key concepts in L2 communication and learning. Previously, research practice in this area has been more concerned with investigating the relationship between individual negative...
Glyoxalase I (GLYI) is a key enzyme that detoxifies methylglyoxal, a toxic byproduct of glycolysis, and is essential for plant pollination. However, the genome-wide identification and functional analysis of GLYI in Brassica rapa L. (B. rapa) remain l...
To enhance the L-threonine synthesis level in Escherichia coli, this study constructed screening markers rich in L-threonine rare codons. By replacing all the threonine codons in the protein sequences with a high proportion of threonine with L-threon...
To explore the key sites affecting the intracellular assembly of key components of cellulosomes and obtain DocA mutants independent of Ca2+, Swiss-model, GROMACS, PyMOL, and other molecular dynamics simulation software were used for modeling and stat...
The utilization of cytosolic protein delivery is a promising approach for treating various diseases by replacing dysfunctional proteins. Despite the development of various nanoparticle-based intracellular protein delivery methods, the complicated che...
This study proposes a novel self-supervised data-preprocessing framework for time-series forecasting in complex ship systems. The framework integrates an improved Learnable Wavelet Packet Transform (L-WPT) for adaptive denoising and a correlation-bas...
The ‘pollen test’ and ‘fruit set test’ following controlled crossing combinations of parents are the most commonly used methods for pollination incompatibility studies in Olea europaea L. Self-incompatibility (SI), with diagnoses based on the pollen...
The present paper proposes and describes a new method, called L2A (listen-to-apprise), conceived of in order to improve the commitment of all the participants involved in an educational process specifically dedicated to sustainability and the green e...
A series of organogelators based on L-phenylalanine has been synthesized and their gelation properties in various organic solvents were investigated. The results showed that these organogelators were capable of forming stable thermal and reversible o...
The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) is a wind-pollinated crop that exhibits an extreme alternate bearing habit. To improve fruit set, several methods have been used to determine the most successful compatible combinations of cultivars. In this study, p...
English phrasal verbs are ubiquitous and challenging for second language (L2) learners, particularly for those whose first language does not have an equivalent structure. This study investigates the facilitative role of three distinct L2 practice typ...
In this study we report the rheological behavior of aqueous solutions of an amphiphilic graft copolymer constituting a polyacrylic acid (PAA) grafted by poly(boc-L-lysine), P(b-LL). Due to the highly hydrophobic nature of the grafted chains, the copo...
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