Solving the mysteries of Lahore smog: the fifth season in the country by Rabia Majeed, Muhammad Shehzaib Anjum, Muhammad Imad-ud-din, Suhaib Malik, Muhammad Naveed Anwar, Muhammad Naveed Anwar, Bilal Anwar, Muhammad Fahim Khokhar

“…Since 2016, it has become so frequent and pervasive that they are colloquially referred to as “the fifth season” in the region. …”
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从专题报道看新加坡与香港中文报刊的语言特征 ：以2013年美国政府关闭事件为例 = The language of journalism in Singapore and Hong Kong : a case study based on the Chinese newspaper reports on the shutdown of the United... by 郑慧敏 Tay, Huimin

“…In terms of the style of writing, Hong Kong newspapers use more literary words as well as colloquial expressions than that of Singapore. Therefore, the thesis aims to provide readers with a platform to better understand the language of journalism of Singapore and Hong Kong through the findings as displayed in this case…”
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Models of bilingual education in majority language contexts: an exploratory study of bilingual programmes in qatari primary schools by Al-Maadheed, F

“…The study reveals that the Qatari bilingual schools context was one of <em>heteroglossia</em>, with three codes in operation: Modern Standard Arabic, Colloquial Arabic dialects and English. Findings reveal that teachers and students in the international school adopt a strict separation policy between the two languages following a monoglossic belief. …”

Interrogative elements and verb-noun ranking for criminal chatting forensics by Marjuni, Siti Hanom

“…The challenges faced in this research is that the chatter develops his own language, a language where speed prevails over correct spelling through short form words, thus contributing to greater interactivity which is defined as unstructured and colloquial. Furthermore, chat utterance is built from a simple sentence which normally contains only one clause. …”
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Images of women in the novels of Ihsan Abdul Quddus and D.H. Lawrence by Gburi, Farooq Saad Jumaah

“…In contrast, while Quddus is critic, playwriting and journalist, his writings tend to be simplicity and to the colloquial language usage.…”
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Transcriptomic analysis of succulent stem development of Chinese kale (Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra Bailey) and its synthetic allotetraploid via RNA sequencing by Wen Zheng, Jiang Shi, Zhi-Yu Zhu, Ping Jin, Jia-Hong Chen, Liang Zhang, E. Zhang, Tao Lin, Zhu-Jun Zhu, Yun-Xiang Zang, Jian-Guo Wu

“…Its allotetraploid (AACC) vegetable germplasm, which was synthesized via distant hybridization with the colloquially named ‘yellow turnip’ (B. rapa L. ssp. rapifera Matzg., AA), has a swelling stem similar to CC. …”
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Ethanol Extract of Yak-Kong Fermented by Lactic Acid Bacteria from a Korean Infant Markedly Reduces Matrix Metallopreteinase-1 Expression Induced by Solar Ultraviolet Irradiation i... by Heanim Park, Ji Won Seo, Tae Kyung Lee, Jae Hwan Kim, Jong-Eun Kim, Tae-Gyu Lim, Jung Han Yoon Park, Chul Sung Huh, Hee Yang, Ki Won Lee

“…Yak-Kong is a type of black soybean that is colloquially referred to as the “medicinal bean” and it elicits several beneficial effects that are relevant to human health, including attenuating the formation of skin wrinkles. …”
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The concept of land bridge marshes in the Mississippi River Delta and implications for coastal restoration by John W. Day, Robert R. Twilley, Angelina Freeman, Brady Couvillion, Tracy Quirk, Navid Jafari, Giulio Mariotti, Rachael Hunter, Charles Norman, G. Paul Kemp, John R. White, Ehab Meselhe

“…In the inactive degrading delta regions, there exists a previously uncharacterized landform referred to colloquially as coastal ‘land bridge’ marshes. Land bridge marshes are saline or brackish marshes fronting large estuarine bays or lakes with sufficient fetch and wave energy to supply high levels of resuspended sediments to the marsh surface. …”
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Emerging technologies’ impacts on ‘man caves’ and their energy demand by Yolande Strengers, Kari Dahlgren, Larissa Nicholls

“…Colloquially termed the ‘man cave’, the shed provides a conceptual lens for thinking about the home’s ‘edges rather than its centres’. …”
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The Use of Artificial Intelligence–Based Conversational Agents (Chatbots) for Weight Loss: Scoping Review and Practical Recommendations by Han Shi Jocelyn Chew

“…Other techniques used in text-based chatbots included personally and culturally appropriate colloquial tones and content; emojis that emulate human emotional expressions; positively framed words; citations of credible information sources; personification; validation; and the provision of real-time, fast, and reliable recommendations. …”
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Desenvolvimento de cartilha sobre os benefícios da alimentação para reduzir a ansiedade em tempos de COVID-19: Relato de experiência by Fernanda da Fonseca Freitas, Jéssyca Camila Carvalho Santos, Anna Cecília Queiroz de Medeiros, Fívia de Araújo Lopes

“…The language used was colloquial, and parts of the text are in the active voice. …”
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Dažas problēmas latviešu literārās valodas izveides procesā by Jānis Rozenbergs

“…In inquiring about the Latvian literary language and its formation, definite layers of cognition can be traced: 1) statement and description of phonetic, lexical and grammatical phenomena found in the Latvian language and in the Latvian texts written by the German clergymen, 2) historical survey of language phenomena and their comparison with related languages, 3) analysis of the old-Latvian (and later also new-Latvian) written language, 4) analysis of colloquial Latvian and folk-lore, 5) fundamental synchronic and diachronic research in phonetics, word stock and grammar within the framework of the language norm, style and language culture aspects.…”
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Program Logic Foundations: Putting the Logic Back into Program Logic by Andrew J. Hawkins

“…Experimental approaches focus on internal validity of knowledge claims about programs and on discovering stable cause and effect relationships—or, colloquially, ‘what works?’. Theory-driven approaches tend to focus on external validity and in the case of the realist approach, the search for transfactual causal mechanisms—extending the ‘what works’ mantra to include ‘for whom and in what circumstances’. …”
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La reparació del trauma a la infància des del model de traumateràpia sistèmica infantojuvenil de Barudy i Dantagnan i la seva transcendència en l'àmbit de l'educació by Concepción Martínez Vázquez

“…Els i les docents, en tant que professionals privilegiats per a la detecció de factors de risc, necessiten comprendre i adaptar la seva tasca educativa a l'hora de donar resposta a les necessitats que nens, nenes i adolescents afectats per trauma presenten, a més de no realitzar una re-victimització que els col·loqui en una situació de major vulnerabilitat. …”
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Prolonged mask wearing does not alter the oral microbiome, salivary flow rate or gingival health status – A pilot study by Sheralyn Au, Divyashri Baraniya, Jason Dao, Shehar Bano Awan, Jenelle Alvarez, Shari Sklar, Tsute Chen, Sumant Puri, Nezar N. Al-Hebshi

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the widespread use of N95 respirators and surgical masks, with anecdotal reports among healthcare providers and the public of xerostomia, halitosis, and gingivitis, a consortium of symptoms colloquially termed “mask mouth”. However, this has not been scientifically verified. …”
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A sketch grammar of Seletar by Tan, Zhi Xuan

“…The analysis of Seletar shows that it is morphologically and syntactically similar to colloquial Malay varieties spoken by ethnic Malays (e.g. bare roots as opposed to affixed forms are preferred, some use of verbal N- prefix, frequent use of reduplication for word formation, various serial verb constructions, use of classifiers, use of kəna for the adversative passive, and clauses are juxtaposed without the use of subordinating and/or coordinating markers). …”
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Telling the story: what can be learned from parents' experience of the professional response following the sudden, unexpected death of a child? by Turner, Denise

“…These procedures were part of a number of recommendations arising from the Report,’ Sudden, Unexpected Death in Childhood’ (2004) known colloquially as the Kennedy Report. This was a response to the miscarriages of justice of three mothers, all wrongfully imprisoned for killing their children and subsequently freed on Appeal. …”
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Surviving Japan – An Insider’s View of the Land of Bushido by Marko Lukić

“…By opening with a self-explanatory title to the first chapter – “Who were the Samurai?” – Bennett colloquially dives into the historical intricacies of the Japanese bushi (samurai), initially defined by their elite warrior status, only to become the ruling class of Japan in the period from the 12th to the 19th century. …”
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Lu Xun's Stories and Modern Chinese Literature by Narmin JAHANGIROVA

“…Writing his stories in a colloquial Bay-Hua language was also a new phenomenon in the history of Chinese literature. …”
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ESTEREOTIPOS Y TENDENCIAS EN LA PRENSA RUMANA ACTUAL by Coman LUPU

“…The stylistic hybridization is the natural outcome of the frequent use of words and phrases characteristic to colloquial-familiar and argotic language or from various terminological areas, generally hardly accessible to the wide audience. …”
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