Down the brain drain: a rapid review exploring physician emigration from West Africa by Tega Ebeye, HaEun Lee

“…Abstract Background The emigration of physicians from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to high-income countries (HICs), colloquially referred to as the “brain drain”, has been a topic of discussion in global health spheres for years. …”
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Tematyka chłopska w literaturze czeskiej rugiej połowy XIX i w XX wieku by Urszula Kolberova

“…Moreover, the author describes the influence of ruralism on the Czech literature in the 20th century (e.g. the introduction of colloquial speech and dialect). She mentions the assumptions of this trend, whose program was created by Josef Knap in his essay K severovýchodu, published in 1925 in the magazine „Sever a východ”. …”
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Models of Elementary Simple Sentences with the Structure (S) + NAcc + VF in Bashkir Generalized Personal Proverbs by Zinnur A. Sirazitdinov

“…The syntactic features characteristic of the construction of this type of proverbial expressions are likely to occur in modern literary language and colloquial speech with a more complex syntactic structure.…”
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Thermodynamic basis for the demarcation of Arctic and alpine treelines by Meredith Richardson Martin, Praveen Kumar, Oliver Sonnentag, Philip Marsh

“…Abstract At the edge of alpine and Arctic ecosystems all over the world, a transition zone exists beyond which it is either infeasible or unfavorable for trees to exist, colloquially identified as the treeline. We explore the possibility of a thermodynamic basis behind this demarcation in vegetation by considering ecosystems as open systems driven by thermodynamic advantage—defined by vegetation’s ability to dissipate heat from the earth’s surface to the air above the canopy. …”
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A "thoughtful" Local Friendliness no-go theorem: a prospective experiment with new assumptions to suit by Howard M. Wiseman, Eric G. Cavalcanti, Eleanor G. Rieffel

“…Crucial to the theorem was the premise that a quantum system with reversible evolution could be an observer (colloquially, a "friend"). However, that paper was noncommittal on what would constitute an observer for the purpose of an experiment. …”
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Bridging the regulatory gaps created by Smart and Connected technologies in South Africa by M Botes, B Townsend

“…The prevalence of technology-embedded products, services, and cities, described colloquially as ‘smart’ technologies and ‘smart’ cities, has seen a spate of unprecedented growth in recent years. …”
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Capturing Beneficial Changes to Racehorse Veterinary Care Implemented during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Deborah Butler, Lois Upton, Siobhan Mullan

“…Such restrictions have been colloquially referred to as “lockdown”. Anecdotal evidence of the beneficial practices that facilitated safe veterinary treatment and equine care had been reported together with an increase in the use of electronic communication and information technologies during the first “lockdown”. …”
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Pets as family members: Conflicting practices in the use of third-person pronouns to refer to companion animals in written biographical stories in Finnish by Katri Priiki

“…Others adopt pronoun variation as a stylistic effect, or the colloquial system with perspective taking as the reason for pronoun variation conveyed to the texts. …”
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Sebe and vpolne sebe: semantics, pragmatics, functions by Sergei G. Vorkachev

“…The relevance of the research is due to the need to study the trends in using colloquial lexical units as markers of cognitive and social development of personality at the present stage. …”
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Pozice „stylu mluveneho ” a „stylu psaneho ” v klasifikaci stylu by ANA HOFFMANNOVA

“…Of the functional styles, the broadly understood “spoken style” is closest to the Czech terms styl hovorovy (proste sdelovaci, beźne mluveny, kolokvialni) [colloquial style, simple informative style, everyday spoken style], in Polish potoczny, in Russian razgovornyj. …”
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Critical care: A concept analysis by Martin Christensen, Mining Liang

“…Defining critical care becomes challenging because of the colloquial use of the term. Using concept analysis allows for the development of definition and meaning. …”
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Interdiscursivity of Biofictional Narration: the Image of Petersburg in M. Bradbury’s “To the Hermitage” by N. A. Urusova

“…The narration is also rich in traits of “periphery” discourses, to name just a few: economical, literary, colloquial French, etc. M. Bradbury uses the strategy of simulated interdiscursivity to make a persuasive impact on a reader’s mind, at the same time involving the reader in fact-fiction semantic game.Conclusion. …”
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Spontaneous Meta-Arithmetic as the First Step Toward School Algebra (La meta-aritmética espontánea como el primer paso hacia el álgebra escolar) by Shai Caspi, Anna Sfard

“…Preliminary analyses of data have shown, unsurprisingly, that while reflecting on arithmetic processes and relations, the uninitiated 7th graders were employing colloquial means, which could not protect them against occasional ambiguities. …”
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A rivalry of the nominations stukach and donoschik in the Russian language by L.V. Vladimirova, T.V. Buzanova

“…Despite the fact that since the first third of the 20th century both words are operating in the language as synonyms, the noun stukach is marked as “colloquial” and “contemptuous” in the dictionaries and donoschik is not. …”
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Prompt Language Learner with Trigger Generation for Dialogue Relation Extraction by Jinsung Kim, Gyeongmin Kim, Junyoung Son, Heuiseok Lim

“…The dialogue-based relation extraction (DialogeRE) benchmark dataset features multi-utterance environments of colloquial speech by multiple speakers, making it critical to capture meaningful clues for inferring relational facts. …”
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Presentation of the World of Politics (Consideration on the Book of Amir Karić the Dictionary of Politics) by Enes Pašalić

“…Amir Karic's The Dictionary of Politics ambitiously contains around 300 wide range of terms, from the basic categories of political science, law, and other related scientific disciplines, to the terms used in colloquial speech. The terms have been arranged in alphabetical order, which indicates that the author has already presented the world of politics through political concepts defined as separate units, and not through relations between terms and conceptual clusters. …”
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Difficulties in mastering phrasal verbs in professional English by T. Yablonska

“…Secondly, phrasal verbs are among the most used verbs in everyday colloquial speech and it is impossible to imagine modern English without them. …”
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Transfert stylistique des registres langagiers dans la traduction audiovisuelle vers le français des deux films égyptiens Femmes du Caire et Les Femmes du Bus 678 by Christina SAMIR FEKRY

“…We identified in “Femmes du Caire” and “Les Femmes du Bus 678”, two language registers, namely the common speech and the colloquial register whose use we examined in different scenes considering the linguistic classification of the language levels in French and in Arabic, and taking into account the cultural and the situational frameworks, the context of production and reception and the relationship between the interlocutors. …”
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Abramova Guba: Towards the Etymology of the Myconym by Lyubov A. Feoktistova

“…Researching the etymology of such words which are formally close to anthroponyms, requires considering some specific factors: a) semantic features of certain components of the name (denotative reference, indication of gender, prevalence of usage, etc.), b) the nature of paronymic attraction to the personal name, particularly in colloquial speech. In terms of deanthroponymic logic of the origin of myconyms, the name Abram can be interpreted as: a) the name of the biblical patriarch, b) a secondary ethnonym, c) a pejorative characteristic of a person (regardless of ethnicity). …”
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ந. சுப்புரெட்டியாரின் பிழை திருத்தக் குறிப்புகள் / N. Subbu Reddiar’s Contribution to Error Correction... by முனைவர் மா. ஆசியாதாரா / Dr. M. Asiathara

“…Subbu Reddiar demonstrates misspellings caused by wrong pronunciation, inattention, and coarse language; Glossary errors caused by colloquial Tamil, lack of education, and use of the vernacular; and Syntactic errors caused by the wrong formation of verbs and the improper applications of conjunction/ case/ suffix/ auxiliary verbs. …”
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