“British English is much more prestigious, everybody knows that!”: reproducing and resisting hegemonic language ideologies in Chilean English teacher education by Pérez Andrade, Gonzalo

“…Using Irvine and Gal’s (2009) framework of linguistic differentiation – iconisation, fractal recursivity and erasure – as an interpretive tool in the analysis of the interview data, I investigated the extent to which and how language ideologies regarding English operate in a group of Chilean ELT programmes. Findings from this study revealed the existence and promotion of opposing language ideologies that coexist within and across the teacher education programmes under scrutiny. …”
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Performance and modeling of volcanic ash and limestone powder waste binary blended alkali activated mortar by Adewumi, Adeshina Adewale

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Static mixer application in enhancing biogranules treatment through hydrodynamic shear force in sequencing batch reactor by Sulaiman, Suryati

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Nutritional intake, body composition, plasma lipids and fat-soluble vitamins, red blood cell fatty acid profile and behaviour of Omani school children by Al-Ghannami, Samia S.

“…This study also indicates that ADHD is relatively common among Omani school children; additional studies are needed to assess the generalisability of these findings. Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in Omani school children, but can be mitigated with omega-3 fatty acid supplementation. …”
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Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings: the COMPARE systematic mapping review by Baker, John, Berzins, Kathryn, Canvin, Krysia, Benson, Iris, Kellar, Ian, Wright, Judy, Rodriguez Lopez, Rocio, Duxbury, Joy, Kendall, Tim, Stewart, Duncan

“…Limitations Many interventions were poorly described and might have contained additional behaviour change techniques that were not detected. The finding that the evidence was weak restricted the study’s scope for examining behaviour change technique effectiveness. …”
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