Leaves that walk and eggs that stick: comparative functional morphology and evolution of the adhesive system of leaf insect eggs (Phasmatodea: Phylliidae) by Thies H. Büscher, Sarah Bank, Royce T. Cumming, Stanislav N. Gorb, Sven Bradler

“…Abstract Phylliidae are herbivorous insects exhibiting impressive cryptic masquerade and are colloquially called “walking leaves”. They imitate angiosperm leaves and their eggs often resemble plant seeds structurally and in some cases functionally. …”
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Interkulturelles Lernen während eines kurzzeitigen, studienbegleitenden Fremdsprachenprogramms. Erfahrungen australischer Studierender in Deutschland by Rosalind Blood, Alexandra Ludewig

“…This study analyses student perceptions of colloquial language, manners and customs in the host country during a short-term study abroad program. …”
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Joint Syntax-Enhanced and Topic-Driven Graph Networks for Emotion Recognition in Multi-Speaker Conversations by Hui Yu, Tinghuai Ma, Li Jia, Najla Al-Nabhan, M. M. Abdel Wahab

“…A syntax module is designed to convert sentences into graphs, using edges to represent dependencies between words, solving the colloquial problem of daily conversations. We use graph convolutional networks to extract the implicit meaning of discourse. …”
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A Novel Deep Transfer Learning-Based Approach for Automated Pes Planus Diagnosis Using X-ray Image by Yeliz Gül, Süleyman Yaman, Derya Avcı, Atilla Hikmet Çilengir, Mehtap Balaban, Hasan Güler

“…Pes planus, colloquially known as flatfoot, is a deformity defined as the collapse, flattening or loss of the medial longitudinal arch of the foot. …”
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Strengthening the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act to Improve Gender Equity Transparency & Institutional Accountability in the Future by Ellen Staurowsky

“…The annual report, colloquially referred to as the EADA report, is officially called The Report on Athletic Program Participation Rates and Financial Support Data. …”
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Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of an Arabic version of PROMIS® of dyspnea activity motivation, requirement item pool and sleep-related impairments item bank by Monira I. Aldhahi, Hadeel R. Bakhsh, Bodor H. Bin Sheeha, Rehab Alhasani

“…The translation was clear and more colloquial sentences were semantically equivalent and easy to understand. …”
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Investigations on microwave-assisted welding of MEX additive manufactured parts to overcome the bed size limitation by Vivek Kumar Tiwary, Arunkumar P․, Vinayak R. Malik

“…Additive Manufacturing (colloquially: 3D printing) is ready to emerge from its niche status and become a feasible mainstream technology due to its increasing number of industrial applications. …”
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“Workers, Master Workers, Unworkers”: Carlyle and Southey — The Saint-Simonians and Industrial Feudalism by Jude V. Nixon

“…Cet article prend en compte l’essai critique de Southey, Letters from England, ainsi que Sir Thomas More, or Colloquies on the Progress of Society, et les met en relation avec “Signs of the Times,” “Chartism,” Past and Present de Carlyle, ainsi qu’avec la correspondance de ce dernier, et décrit brièvement les relations d’amitié entre les deux hommes, notamment la façon dont leurs échanges sur les Saint-Simoniens se rejoignaient autour d’une théorie médiévale et féodale du travail. …”
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Main trends in the economic vocabulary evolution of the modern Ukrainian language (based on famous Ukrainian linguists scholarly works of the early XXI century) by Olha Spys

“…It is detected that the economic thematic group of Ukrainian lexis develops according to the following tendencies in the works of famous Ukrainian linguists: 1) globalization and autochthonization; 2) active assimilation by speakers of economic words with both direct and figurative meaning; 3) transfusion of special word-terms and commonly used lexical units in various spheres of communication, as in professional so in journalistic and colloquial.…”
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Pour une théorie de la réception du discours grammatical by Jean-Rémi Lapaire

“…The respondents were asked to produce two sets of definitions: one in “technical mode” (posing as experts), another in “colloquial mode” (addressing a young child or some uneducated person). …”
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Between Fact and Fantasy: Early Sources on Oirat Historical Dialectology by Pavel O. Rykin

“…The evidence is of special importance because it includes morphophonological (an innovative colloquial shape of the clitics ni ~ n̠i < *inu and la ~ =la < *ele) and morphosyntactic (the progressive/durative in ‑nA(y)i), rather than lexical, features, which seem to have been considered Oirat by the early seventeenth-century author(s) of the chronicle. …”
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Ultra culture-ultra reality: a content analysis of YouTube depictions of ultra endurance sport and comparisons to scientific literature by Jill Colangelo, Alexander Smith, Ana Buadze, Michael Liebrenz

“…Subsequently, videos were analyzed and coded to discern the most frequently repeated themes.ResultsFive recurring themes were identified: discussion of the mental aspects of UES participation; the adoption of folk-tale storytelling; dietary habits of UEA; a focus on pain and suffering; the use of words associated with mental illness as a colloquial descriptor of UES/UEA.DiscussionYouTube depictions of UES participation appear to accentuate suffering and co-occurring phenomena as attractive qualities. …”
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Describing Medicinal Non-Timber Forest Product Trade in Eastern Deciduous Forests of the United States by Steve D. Kruger, John F. Munsell, James L. Chamberlain, Jeanine M. Davis, Ryan D. Huish

“…Other marketable medicinal plants collected from the same forests, known colloquially as ‘off-roots’, are not similarly tracked. …”
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Varieties of Spoken Slovenian in Austrian Carinthia and the Speech Practices of Young Members of the Minority by Tina Lengar Verovnik

“…The respondents did not directly confirm the existence of a common regional colloquial variety. However, during secondary education at the latest, they developed the ability to accommodate to speakers of other Carinthian dialects, which is conditioned by their more developed language ability in Slovenian. …”
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Alpha clustering in nuclear astrophysics and topology by Daid Kahl, Hidetoshi Yamaguchi, Seiya Hayakawa

“…Nuclei with an equal and even number of protons and neutrons are colloquially referred to as “alpha conjugate nuclei,” where such special properties are the most pronounced and easiest to spot. …”
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Mitogenome recovered from a 19 th Century holotype by shotgun sequencing supplies a generic name for an orphaned clade of African weakly electric fishes (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyri... by John P. Sullivan, Carl D. Hopkins, Stacy Pirro, Rose Peterson, Albert Chakona, Tadiwa I. Mutizwa, Christian Mukweze Mulelenu, Fahad H. Alqahtani, Emmanuel Vreven, Casey B. Dillman

“…Comparison of cytochrome oxidase I and cytochrome b sequences from this mitogenome to sequences from recently collected material reveal that Heteromormyrus pauciradiatus is closely related to specimens identified as Hippopotamyrus ansorgii (Boulenger, 1905), Hippopotamyrus szaboi Kramer, van der Bank &amp;amp; Wink, 2004, Hippopotamyrus longilateralis Kramer &amp;amp; Swartz, 2010, as well as to several undescribed forms from subequatorial Africa collectively referred to in the literature as the “Hippopotamyrus ansorgii species complex” and colloquially known as “slender stonebashers.” Previous molecular phylogenetic work has shown that these species are not close relatives of Hippopotamyrus castor Pappenheim, 1906, the type species of genus Hippopotamyrus Pappenheim, 1906 from Cameroon, and are thus misclassified. …”
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Diagnostic Yield of Combined Lumbar Puncture and Brain MRI in Critically Ill Patients With Unexplained Acute Encephalopathy: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Meghan E. Nothem, DO, Alan G. Salazar, MD, Rahul S. Nanchal, MD, Paul A. Bergl, MD

“…Critically ill patients frequently experience acute encephalopathy, often colloquially termed “altered mental status” (AMS); however, there are no consensus guidelines or criteria about performing lumbar puncture (LP) and advanced neuroimaging in medical ICU patients with unexplained encephalopathy. …”
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Charakterystyka języka familijnego Joachima Lelewela dotyczącego społecznej przestrzeni rodziny (na podstawie listów do najbliższych) by Violetta Jaros

“…‘benefactor/benefactress/benefactors’ in relation to the elderly), emotional colloquial vocabulary and unofficial anthroponyms. This use of familial language, characterised by infrequent use of personalised forms, belongs to marked informal register.   …”
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La critique de cinéma comme activité rhétorique by Dominika Topa-Bryniarska

“…Since the mentioned strategies assume that the discourse aims at influencing the addressees' will and decisions, they reflect some of the persuasive techniques used in advertising discourse, especially with regard to rhetorical means of interpretation, suggestion and evaluation such as colloquial expressions, questions, directive speech acts, collocative pronouns and generic quantifiers. …”
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The Use of Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Mitigating Area Coverage Challenges of Forest-Fire-Extinguishing Activities: A Systematic Literature Review by Ihab L. Hussein Alsammak, Moamin A. Mahmoud, Hazleen Aris, Muhanad AlKilabi, Mohammed Najah Mahdi

“…The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), colloquially known as drones, has grown rapidly over the past two decades and continues to expand at a rapid pace. …”
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