Regardless of their country of origin, those participants in the UK ESL context are categorized as participants in a low-context culture, while Japanese EFL participants in Japan are categorized as those in a high-context culture based on their geographical location at the time of the experiment....
Can leave a simple message giving information regarding for instance where they have gone, or what time they will be back (e.g. “Shopping: back at 5 p.m.”) Communicative language competences Linguistic competence General linguistic range ...
Different funding models in these schools result in a wide disparity in resource allocation and availability, with some schools having world-class facilities and other schools not having grass on their sports fields [49]. The historical context of the South African political landscape may be the ...
gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and culture [8]. Sexual behaviour perhaps influenced by many factors like physiological cultural and social pressures, which vary from generation to generation [3]. Sexual exposure during adolescence is a matter of grave concern ...
Bullying often takes place within the school context; a UK survey17 showed that 46% of school-aged children had been bullied. The odds of suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts are more than doubled in young people who report peer victimisation.18 Bullying can affect children into adulthood ...
In our setting, the trees contain a continuous score on the leaves. The model is trained by minimizing the functionL=∑ilyˆi,yi+∑jΩfj,where l is the model loss. The second term Ω penalizes the complexity of the model. The specific details of the algorithm are omitted and can be...
This paper presents the findings of a multi-year mixed method study of source country perspectives on the causes, consequences, and policy responses to the migration of HRH with specific reference to the Philippine context. It addresses one of four countries that participated in the larger study,...
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and HIV in particular, are a significant public health issue. Effective prevention is critical to ending the HIV epidemic and combatting STIs. Evidence on the cost-effectiveness of prevention interventions and programmes is vital: In the context of limited res...
The study recalls that mentoring relationships do not exist in a vacuum. We therefore must acknowledge and further examine their context to unearth the per- sonal, interpersonal and circumstantial variables that can make or break these relationships. However, some limitations need addressing. First, ...
optionally isolating vanillin thereby formed from the culture medium;wherein said genetically engineered bacterial strain has a reduced ability to grow on vanillin as the sole carbon source; andwherein said genetically engineered bacterial strain contains at least the following genetic modification:i) dow...