Pragmatic competence and pragmatic tolerance in foreign language acquisition—revisiting the case of scalar implicatures by Schulz, J, Wonnacott, E

“…Some studies indicate adult L2 learners are less likely than L1 users to accept such statements while others found the opposite, concluding that implicature derivation is “costly” for L2 learners, rendering them less pragmatically competent than L1 users. …”

Simulating impacts of reducing subsidies to Kuwait’s electricity sector by Gelan, A

“…This article will shed some light on the likely impacts of the envisaged reform and summarizes some of our main conclusions from a forthcoming study, whose objective is to quantify economy-wide impacts of public utility reform that may start by targeting the reduction of electricity subsidies. …”

Young adolescents’ experiences and views on eating and food by Gilmour, A, Gill, S, Loudon, G

“…<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Poor eating habits established during adolescence are likely to lead to negative long-term health consequences. …”

Understanding variations in the use of tranexamic acid in surgery: a qualitative interview study by Strickland, L, Evans, H, Palmer, A, Warnakulasuriya, S, Murphy, M, Stanworth, S, Foy, R

“…<p><strong> Conclusion: </strong></p> Any strategy to increase TXA use that improves knowledge and skills without addressing wider influences on clinical behaviour is only likely to meet with limited success.…”

Seismic node arrays for enhanced understanding and monitoring of geothermal systems by Hudson, T, Kettlety, T, Kendall, J-M, O'Toole, T, Jupe, A, Shail, RK, Grand, G

“…Harnessing geothermal energy will likely play a critical role in reducing global CO₂ emissions. …”

Antibiotic duration for common bacterial infections—a systematic review by Mo, Y, Tan, WC, Cooper, BS

“…Conclusions: Reducing antibiotic duration likely remains an important strategy for antibiotic stewardship, and an area of active research. …”

Capitalizing on a crisis: a computational analysis of all five million British firms during the Covid-19 pandemic by Muggleton, N, Rahal, C, Reeves, A

“…In this respect, the pandemic will likely impact future wealth inequalities. Our work offers methodological guidance for future policymakers during economic crises and highlights the long-term consequences for capital and wealth inequality.…”

Violence-related skeletal trauma in the Epi-Jomon period: a case study from the Koboro cave site in Hokkaido, Japan by Braddick, I, Kubo, D, Matsumura, H, Schulting, RJ

“…The position of the projectile lodged in the rib suggests that Koboro 8 was shot in the chest from diagonally right anteriorly, the arrowhead likely puncturing both lungs (or liver and left lung) and possibly piercing the heart. …”

From Zebrafish to humans: in silico comparative study of RAD50 sequences by Nahid Khalili, Ahmed Najm, Mahmood, Ibrahim, Douglas, Law, Chyan, Leong Ng, Ahmad Azfaralariff, Shazrul Fazry

“…By examining the secondary and tertiary protein structures of RAD50, we observed a notable likeness between Zebrafish and Human RAD50 proteins. …”
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Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance of Malaysian SMEs: a systematic review and the uncharted parts by Liew, Mei Xuan, Jamaluddin, Askiah, Zainalaludin, Zumilah, Md. Yusoff, Irwan Syah

“…From here, studies have established that the unidimensional concept of EO dominates; however, whether services are more likely to form positive EO–FP linkages than manufacturing has not been explored; FP is measured primarily by financial indicators. …”

The mediating role of halal supply chain integrity in enhancing performance for halal herbal-based food SMEs by Rajendran, Salini Devi, Kamarulzaman, Nitty Hirawaty, Abd Rahman, Azmawani

“…They should work to provide support to increase religious orientation in the SMEs, as this would likely enhance all other factors.…”
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Analysis of different type of agriculture soil Based on physical properties and ftir (fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy) by Ahmad, Siti Noratika

“…The physical appearances of soil samples from site 1 showed consistency at all depths and points while the soil samples from site 4 appeared to has clay likes particles that distinguish them from other samples. …”
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How balanced are you? Bilingualism and the development of attentional control in English-Mandarin preschool children by Chan, Clara Gek Hoon

“…Given that engaging in the cognitive processes of language management in the brain is likely to result in changes to the neural system to improve cognitive efficiency, bilingualism is expected to positively benefit cognitive control. …”
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MAAD: A Model and Dataset for "Attended Awareness" in Driving by Gopinath, Deepak, Rosman, Guy, Stent, Simon, Terahata, Katsuya, Fletcher, Luke, Argall, Brenna, Leonard, John

“…We define attended awareness to be those parts of a potentially dynamic scene which a person has attended to in recent history and which they are still likely to be physically aware of. Our model takes as input scene information in the form of a video and noisy gaze estimates, and outputs visual saliency, a refined gaze estimate, and an estimate of the person's attended awareness. …”
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Spectral, spatial, and temporal characteristics of underwater ambient noise in the Beaufort Sea in 1994 and 2016 by Chen, R., Poulsen, A., Schmidt, H.

“…Spectral comparison shows noise within 20–350 Hz is ∼30 dB louder in 1994 than 2016; however, this is likely due to higher array self noise during SIMI94. …”
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Prototypical career paths in urban, suburban, and rural locations in the United States by Setor, Tenace, Joseph, Damien

“…What are the prototypical career paths thus formed? Who are the likely incumbents of these career paths? What are the consequences of pursuing these career paths? …”
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The role of online media in mobilizing large-scale collective action by Chen, Zhuo, Oh, Poong, Chen, Anfan

“…The results showed that messages generated by users who occupied peripheral positions (i.e., lower k-coreness) and by those connecting others within closed communities (i.e., lower brokerage) were more likely to diffuse than those generated by central users or those who bridged different communities. …”
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Identification of GABAergic neurons innervating the zebrafish lateral habenula by Ramaswamy, Mahathi, Cheng, Ruey-Kuang, Jesuthasan, Suresh

“…Mechanisms governing release of GABA from the neurons in the posterior hypothalamus, which are likely to be in the tuberomammillary nucleus, remain to be defined.…”
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Self-Assembly of Semiconducting Polymer Amphiphiles for In Vivo Photoacoustic Imaging by Xie, Chen, Zhen, Xu, Lei, Qunli, Ni, Ran, Pu, Kanyi

“…Despite the advantages of semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (SPNs) over other inorganic nanoparticles for photoacoustic (PA) imaging, their synthetic method is generally limited to nanoprecipitation, which is likely to cause the issue of nanoparticle dissociation. …”
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Three-dimensional hydraulic modeling of particle deposition on the patterned isopore membrane in crossflow microfiltration by Choi, Dong-Chan, Jung, Seon-Yeop, Won, Young-June, Jang, Jun Hee, Lee, Jaewoo, Chae, Hee-Ro, Ahn, Kyung Hyun, Lee, Sangho, Park, Pyung-Kyu, Lee, Chung-Hak

“…CFD modeling studies were carried out to elucidate the anti-fouling effect of patterned membranes However, patterned membranes prepared usually by a phase inversion method are more likely to have broad pore size distributions and most modeling studies are based on two-dimensional space despite the three-dimensional pattern geometry. …”
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