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  • Open Access
560 Views
16 Pages

The L2 (second/foreign language) Motivational Self-System (L2MSS) proposed by Dörnyei has been extensively examined in L2 classrooms due to the central role of learners’ motivation in L2 learning. Among the components, the Ideal L2 Self (L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,956 Views
21 Pages

Surviving Burn Injury: Drivers of Length of Hospital Stay

  • Chimdimma Noelyn Onah,
  • Richard Allmendinger,
  • Julia Handl and
  • Ken W. Dunn

With a reduction in the mortality rate of burn patients, length of stay (LOS) has been increasingly adopted as an outcome measure. Some studies have attempted to identify factors that explain a burn patient’s LOS. However, few have investigated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,165 Views
25 Pages

6 September 2021

This explanatory sequential mixed methods study explores the perceptions of academic and administrative managers responsible for teacher training at a public university in Colombia, as well as their views on improving such training after learning abo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,851 Views
22 Pages

18 September 2015

Parent involvement in their children’s learning is widely acknowledged as having a positive effect on student academic success. Of particular relevance is the finding that the influence of parent engagement can mitigate differences in socioeconomic s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,996 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2024

This study introduces a novel recommender system that integrates academic performance and socio-demographic variables to provide personalised and contextually relevant recommendations for university degree selection. The system aims to optimise the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,566 Views
18 Pages

Incorporating Density in Spatiotemporal Land Use/Cover Change Patterns: The Case of Attica, Greece

  • Dimitrios Gounaridis,
  • Elias Symeonakis,
  • Ioannis Chorianopoulos and
  • Sotirios Koukoulas

1 July 2018

This paper looks at the periodic land use/cover (LUC) changes that occurred in Attica, Greece from 1991 to 2016. During this period, land transformations were mostly related to the artificial LUC categories; therefore, the aim was to map LUC with a h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,541 Views
24 Pages

Using Data Tools and Systems to Drive Change in Early Childhood Education for Disadvantaged Children in South Africa

  • Sonja Giese,
  • Andrew Dawes,
  • Linda Biersteker,
  • Elizabeth Girdwood and
  • Junita Henry

28 August 2023

In line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.2, South Africa’s National Development Plan commits to providing high-quality early childhood education to all children by 2030 to drive improved child outcomes. Prior to 2016, So...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,457 Views
12 Pages

The purposes of this study was to discover the circumstances in which people gain happiness from performing housework and to understand gender differences in housework-related happiness. We used national data from the Taiwan Social Change Survey cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
377 Views
24 Pages

Mobility Behavior Segmentation for Personalized AMoD Service Design: Evidence from Israel

  • Gabriel Dadashev,
  • Alina Zukin,
  • Francisco Camara Pereira and
  • Bat-Hen Nahmias-Biran

For decades, transportation planning has relied on utilitarian principles, which aim to maximize cumulative benefit by meeting the needs of the “average user.” This approach ignores fundamental differences between population groups and pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,747 Views
18 Pages

15 February 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on numerous industries, including the event industry, resulting in widespread disruptions. The widespread cancellations of festivals have been a direct consequence of the pandemic, and, following the...