08 Higher Education in Romania Compared to Other Signatories of the Bologna Reform by Florin - Adrian LĂCĂTUȘ

“…The paper largely describes the acceptable conditions for accession to higher education in Romania and the states used as examples. In its penultimate point, the current research brings as a contribution the implementation and effects of the Bologna reforms in the initial training of teachers in the education systems of the signatories previously mentioned, as a comparative approach. …”
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A study on nuclei in the SEC - report from the Public Speaking Project in Lund by Bryan Mosey

“…A field indicating the position of each word within the tone unit (1 representing the last word of the tone unit and 2, the penultimate word etc.) has also been added thus facilitating the statistical study of nucleus position. …”
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The Timeliness of Kant’s Vision of Copyright by Zdzisław Kieliszek

“…Then the concept of copyright of Immanuel Kant is shown. The penultimate part of the rethinking of Kant based on the arguments of the supporters and the opponents of copyright. …”
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Accelerated decoding method in fractal image coding by Qiang Wang

“…Then, only the range blocks inside MDBS are reconstructed in each of the first to penultimate iterations, and the computations of reconstructing the remaining range blocks outside MDBS can be saved to speedup the decoding process. …”
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A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī by Christian Mauder, Christopher Markiewicz

“…S ince Mohammad Awad’s pioneering work in 1940, the learned social gatherings (majālis) of the penultimate Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906-922/1501-1516) have helped produce a small, but lively scholarship on the courtly life of the late Mamluk period.1 Doubtless, such interest has been fueled largely by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ʿAzzām’s 1941 edition of two Arabic sources that focus on the majālis: Nafāʾis majālis al-sulṭāniyya fī ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-Qurʾāniyya (sic) of the little known author al-Sharīf Ḥusayn b. …”
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SYRACUSE AS VIETNAM: THE CLASSICAL INTERTEXT OF JOSEPH HELLER’S PICTURE THIS by F.R. Pauw

“…Since Picture This deals in large part with classical Athenian history and philosophy,2 this article will also examine Heller’s use of classical sources, including certain factual and terminological errata. The penultimate section argues that Heller’s critical concern with wars and imperialism in classical Athens relates to his perception of the American involvement in the Vietnam War. …”
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FONOLOGI BAHASA MADURA by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…The diphtongs in Madura language are (lay I, loyl. and luyf) which can be found on the ultimate and penultimate syllables. The clusters can only be found on the second syllables. …”

In defence of just war: Christian tradition, controversies, and cases by Biggar, N

“…Then I proceed to discuss four controversial issues that my recent book, In Defence of War, has raised: the conception of just war as punitive, the penultimate nature of the authority of international law, the morality of national interest, and the elasticity of the requirement of proportionality. …”

An Introduction to ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī’s Commentary on the Futūḥāt' by Morrissey, F

“…This article introduces ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī’s Sharḥ mushkilāt al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyyah wa-fatḥ alabwāb al-mughlaqāt min al-‘ulūm al-laduniyyah, a partial commentary on the 559th and penultimate chapter of Ibn ‘Arabī’s Futūḥāt, which, despite the fame of its author and uniqueness of the work, has received very little scholarly attention. …”

Structure and mechanism of anthocyanidin synthase from Arabidopsis thaliana. by Wilmouth, R, Turnbull, J, Welford, R, Clifton, I, Prescott, A, Schofield, C

“…Anthocyanidin synthase (ANS), a 2-oxoglutarate iron-dependent oxygenase, catalyzes the penultimate step in the biosynthesis of the anthocyanin class of flavonoids. …”

Glutamine-330 is not essential for activity in isopenicillin N synthase from Aspergillus nidulans. by Sami, M, Brown, T, Roach, P, Schofield, C, Baldwin, J

“…The crystal structure of Aspergillus nidulans IPNS complexed to manganese reveals a six co-ordinate metal ligated by two water molecules and four protein ligands: His-214, His-270, Asp-216 and Gln-330 (the penultimate C-terminal residue). Modification of Gln-330 to Ala or Leu, or deletion of 2 or 6 residues from the C-terminus resulted in lowering of specific activity; no activity was observed after deletion of 8 residues. …”

How Words can be Misleading: A Study of Syllable Timing and “Stress” in Malay by Mohd Don, Zuraidah, Yong, J., Knowles, Gerry

“…This preliminary study seemed to provide strong evidence for penultimate stress. Seen in a wider context, the evidence collapsed, and it became clear that Malay does not have word stress at all. …”
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Canopy light distribution effects on light use efficiency in wheat and its mechanism by Jie Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang, Furong Neng, Shuping Xiong, Yihao Wei, Rui Cao, Qiongru Wei, Xinming Ma, Xiaochun Wang, Xiaochun Wang

“…Wheat was planted in two rows having different spacing [R1 (15 cm) and R2 (25 cm)] to simulate different CLD. Flag and penultimate leaves were subjected to chloroplast proteomics analysis. …”
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Co‐designing an online treatment decision aid for men with low‐risk prostate cancer: Navigate by Penelope Schofield, Amelia Hyatt, Alan White, Fiona White, Mark Frydenberg, Suzanne Chambers, Robert Gardiner, Declan G. Murphy, Lawrence Cavedon, Jeremy Millar, Natalie Richards, Barbara Murphy, Ilona Juraskova

“…Clinician (n = 6) and consumer (n = 9) feedback on usability and content on the penultimate version was collected. Results The initial workshops identified key content and design features that were incorporated into the draft OTDA, re‐workshopped and incorporated into the penultimate OTDA. …”
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Problem-based learning as an efficient teaching modality: improvements proposed by UK medical students by Aslami MK, Suleman AHT, Shah OA

“…This is supported by a study wherein 32.9% of respondents detailed PBL to be time inefficient, highlighting potential concerns regarding its ability to adequately meet learning outcomes.2 As penultimate year medical students studying a curriculum utilizing PBL, we would like to use our experience to propose improvements that can be made to PBL teaching.View the original paper by Yadav and colleagues …”
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Evaluation of XIMIS for Assessing Extreme Pressure Coefficients by Eri Gavanski, Nicholas J. Cook

“…Commonly used methods to estimate peak wind pressures on buildings are summarized. The Harris (2009) penultimate XIMIS method is described and calibrated against Gumbel epochal extreme-value analysis (EVA), as well as with the Hermite-Davenport peak factor method by Yang et al. (2013) (YGP) using a very long record of wind tunnel data from many pressure taps. …”
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A Review of and Some Results for Ollivier–Ricci Network Curvature by Nazanin Azarhooshang, Prithviraj Sengupta, Bhaskar DasGupta

“…In the next section we provide some “not-previously-published” bounds on the exact and approximate computation of the curvature measure. In the penultimate section we review a method based on the linear sketching technique for efficient approximate computation of the Ollivier–Ricci network curvature. …”
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Rhizobium sp. BR816 Produces a Complex Mixture of Known and Novel Lipochitooligosaccharide Molecules by Carla Snoeck, Ellen Luyten, Véréna Poinsot, Arlette Savagnac, Jos Vanderleyden, Jean-Claude Promé

“…A second acetyl group can be present on the penultimate N-acetylglu-cosamine from the nonreducing terminus. …”
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Posthodiplostomatosis in a fishpond in Serbia by Marković Maja, Ćirković M., Aleksić Nevenka, Milošević Nikolina, Bjelić-Čabrilo Olivera, Ljubojević Dragana, Aksentijević Ksenija, Radojičić Marina

“…Posthodiplostomatosis (black spot disease) is a disease of young freshwater fish species of families Cyprinidae and Cobitidae, resulting from infection with metacercaria, which is the penultimate developmental stage of Posthodiplostomum cuticola. …”
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The teaching and learning of English back stress suffix at secondary school by Roland Giscard ONDZE OTOUBA & Yvon-Pierre NDONGO IBARA

“…In so doing, this work is restricted to back stress suffix1 also known as penultimate stress. It provides the readers with a lesson plan to deal with this English pronunciation item based on three (3) Ps method: Presentation, Practice, and Production…”
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