The Relationship among Iranian EFL Teachers’ Professional Identity, Self-Efficacy and Critical Thinking Skills by Negar Moslemi, Parya Habibi

“…Teachers’ beliefs, attitudes, and identities have been considered as the main factors in improving their performance to enhance students’ learning. …”
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Clerics of Don Kalmyk Cossacks in the Second Half of the XIX – early XX Centuries by Konstantin N. Maksimov

“…A major reform of the land system in the Kalmyk nomad and the service of the Buddhist clergy with a change in the status of its main hierarch occurred in the 1870s. The Buddhist clergy experienced its consequences during the war and social upheavals together with its people. …”
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Place of Culture in Curriculum Planning in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions by MUSA H.A

“… Culture, Curriculum ,and education are viewed from different angles but the main focus of this work is the position of culture in curriculum planning in Nigeria tertiary institutions .This paper argues that curriculum cannot stands on its own without considering the culture of the society since curriculum is being planned for the students and his environs .The key concept of culture ,curriculum and its planning are explained while tertiary education was also explained in line with national policy on education. …”
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Infrastructured Timescapes of the Anthropocene and Climate Change by Claudio Coletta

“…This introduction aims to frame the main contents of the special issue and offers an overview of the collected contributions. …”
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Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (suggested common name), Homalodisca coagulata (Say) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) by Tracy Conklin, Russell F. Mizell, III

“… The glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata (Say), is a large leafhopper species native to the southeastern United States. It is one of the main vectors of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, a plant pathogen that causes a variety of plant diseases, including phony peach disease of peach and Pierce's disease of grape. …”
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Understanding Nitrogen Availability from Applications of Anaerobically Digested Beef-Cattle Manure in Florida Sandy Soil by Rishi Prasad, George Hochmuth

“… Anaerobic digestion of livestock manure is a microbe-mediated process carried out in vessels or tanks, where the livestock wastes are digested slowly in environment absent of oxygen. The main products are biogas, anaerobically digested liquid (ADL), and solid (ADS), which can be land-applied as an organic soil amendment or a source of plant nutrients. …”
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Peace in the spirituality of Thomas á Kempis. An aesthetic perspective on the Imitatio Christi 4.25 by P.G.R. de Villiers

“…The article then analyses the two main aspects of peace that emanate from an aesthetic analysis of the chapter, namely its divine nature as spiritual gift. …”
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O „ukrzyżowanym erosie” Ignacego Antiocheńskiego w monografii naukowej Krzysztofa Abucewicza by Arkadiusz Baron

“…The aim of the article is to show the content and main qualities of the book and to critically analyze of the conclusions drawn by Krzysztof Abucewicz. …”
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USER-GENERATED REVIEWS AND OFFICIAL STAR RATINGS: CAN THE TWO WORK TOGETHER IN HOTEL EVALUATION SYSTEMS? by Femi Odebiyi, Vitaliya Gontar

“…The findings reveal that the online review system is still not structured enough to become the main evaluation system of a hotel. …”
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Development of a scale of teachers’ perceived training quality from the perspective of TPACK by Jielin Yang, Hongju Wei

“…Abstract The main purpose of this study is to develop the Teachers’ Perceived Training Quality Scale from the perspective of technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK), which includes technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge and their interaction. …”
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Adoption of Biogas Technology to Ordinary Pit Latrines in Uganda. by Kibet Benson

“…This segment of population is mainly dependent on use of biomass consisting of firewood, charcoal, straw, crop residues to meet its energy demand for cooking and other domestic needs. …”
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The Design and Construction of an Automatic and Android Controlled Change Over Switch. by Turyasingura Gideon

“…This project is designed to automatically supply continuous power to the load through one of the three sources of supply that is, mains, generator, and Inverter, with priority in that order. …”
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The Design and Construction of an Automatic and Android Controlled Change Over Switch. by Turyasingura, Gideon

“…This project is designed to automatically supply continuous power to the load through one of the three sources of supply that is, mains, generator, and Inverter, with priority in that order. …”
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Design and Prototyping of Remote Current, and Temperature Monitoring System for Distribution Transformers. by Bwengye, Duncan

“…Chapter three describes the methods used to achieve the main objective and specific objectives of the research. …”
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Design of an Air Quality Monitoring and Control System Using Internet of Things. by Dwire, Jelly Jophian

“…The currently used systems however that are commonly imported in Uganda do not have an automated monitoring mechanism. they are unreliable. expensive. hard to read and their main l(ic11s is on vehicles yet people spend most of their time working indoors in clilTerenl industries hence their health is compromised. …”
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Adoption of Biogas Technology to Ordinary Pit Latrines in Uganda. by Kibet, Benson

“…This segment of population is mainly dependent on use of biomass consisting of firewood, charcoal, straw, crop residues to meet its energy demand for cooking and other domestic needs. …”
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African Indigenous Medicine Activities in Mbarara Municipality, Uganda by Godfrey, Barigye

“…It was established that most African indigenous healers were mainly practicing herbalism, midwifery/traditional birth attendance, spirituality/foretelling, bone-setters, snake poison healers and rain-makers. …”
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Design and Construction of a Hydraulic Lift. by Ndahura, Dickens

“…This project is mainly focused on the force acting on the hydraulic lift when it is extended and contracted. …”
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Carbon Emission of Garden Pavement by Peiyong WANG, Ruixing LU

“…However, there exists less quantitative research on low carbon in the field of landscape engineering, which is mainly based on data from the architectural profession. …”
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Research on Characteristics and Influencing Factors of High Temperature Disaster Risk in Wuhan Based on Local Climate Zone by Shujing GUO, Li ZHANG

“…Finally, geographically weighted regression (GWR) models are used to explore the effect of LCZ landscape patterns on spatial heterogeneity of high temperature disaster risk.ResultsThe characteristics of high temperature disaster risk in each district do not differ much, and the overall spatial presentation of the development center of each district gradually decreases from high to low, with high-risk areas mainly located in the south-central part of Caidian District, the west and north of Jiangxia District, the dense industrial parks in the south of Dongxihu District, the Wuhan Iron and Steel Factory in Qingshan District, and the Tianhe Airport in Huangpi District, and the low-risk areas are mainly in the watershed part. …”
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