L’exposé oral en langue étrangère : une tâche complexe au service du développement des compétences by Marcelo Tano

“…A pedagogy specific to oral presentation seems necessary to take full advantage of this demanding activity, often stimulating but always feared by students. …”
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Optimal Investment Timing and Size of a Logistics Park: A Real Options Perspective by Dezhi Zhang, Jiehui Jiang, Shuangyan Li, Xiamiao Li, Qingwen Zhan

“…A real option model is proposed to explicitly incorporate the effect of government subsidies on logistics park investment. …”
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Consumers’ Purchase Intentions Towards New Energy Vehicles Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour on Perceived Value: An Empirical Survey of China by Xiaofang Hu, Raja Nerina Raja Yusof, Zuraina Dato Mansor

“…Consequently, there has been a substantial surge in the demand for NEVs as alternatives to conventional vehicles. …”
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A simple way to make elastically-isotropic closed-cell plate-lattices: Effective properties of Ti-6Al-4V cubic+octet foam material by Liang Dong

“…Speaking of the uniqueness of this fabrication strategy, it allows for easy implementation of structural hierarchy and hybrid design; it also provides a simple way to utilize lab-scale advanced materials that are demanding even impractical to realize scalable production.…”
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Reinforcement learning on slow features of high-dimensional input streams. by Robert Legenstein, Niko Wilbert, Laurenz Wiskott

“…We demonstrate by computer simulations that this generic architecture is able to learn quite demanding reinforcement learning tasks on high-dimensional visual input streams in a time that is comparable to the time needed when an explicit highly informative low-dimensional state-space representation is given instead of the high-dimensional visual input. …”
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dmQAR: Mapping Metacognition in Digital Spaces onto Question–Answer Relationship by Brittany Adams, Nance S. Wilson, Gillian E. Mertens

“…Implications for instruction highlight the need for explicit metacognitive scaffolding and equitable access to digital literacy tools. …”
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An Enhanced Opinion Retrieval Approach on Arabic Text for Customer Requirements Expansion by Sarah Saad Eldin, Ammar Mohammed, Hesham Hefny, Ahmed Sharaf Eldin Ahmed

“…To represent the products’ opinions from customers’ perspectives, opinion retrieval becomes a demanding and essential task for automatically extracting, analyzing, and summarizing customers’ reviews. …”
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FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING DURING THE TRANSITION FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO UNIVERSITY by Elena UNGUREANU

“…This shift often leads to difficulties in managing the discrepancy between expected and actual academic demands. Despite its importance, the lived experience of this transition remains under-researched, particularly regarding how students engage with different forms of knowledge. …”
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Neural correlates reveal separate stages of spontaneous face perception by Amanda K. Robinson, Greta Stuart, Sophia M. Shatek, Adrian Herbert, Jessica Taubert

“…Our findings demonstrate that face pareidolia exemplifies the brain’s capacity to resolve perceptual ambiguity through dynamic processing, with task demands determining how competing representations contribute to perception.…”
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Multi-objective optimization of hybrid microgrid for energy trilemma goals using slime mould algorithm by Alok Kumar Shrivastav, Soham Dutta

“…The novel integration of EV batteries as DERs, with explicit modeling of bidirectional V2G operations, distinguishes this work from previous studies that considered only unidirectional or static EV participation. …”
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The social media communication of Andalusian interest groups: interaction, politics, and propaganda by Antonio Pineda, Leticia Quintana-Pujalte, María Rodríguez-López, Marta Sánchez-Martín

“…Interest groups, one of the main expressions of the diversity of social interests in the contemporary world, are organizations that serve as channels for bringing social demands to the attention of the political establishment with the aim of influencing the design, discussion, approval, and implementation of public policies. …”
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ANALISIS INSTRUMEN PENUGASAN MENULIS KREATIF DALAM BUKU SISWA BAHASA INDONESIA FASE F KURIKULUM MERDEKA by Natanael Ricky Putra, Imam Agus Basuki, Titik Harsiati

“…The results of the study showed that most assignments were at the C2 level (functional), with guided writing demands but still providing limited space for expression. …”
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Analyzing the Nature of Apparent Authority in Islamic Jurisprudence and Iranian Law by Hamid Reza Habibi, Behzad Pourseyyed

“…Through the governance principle, Iranian law can adapt the structure of apparent authority to accommodate modern commercial demands by permitting third-party reliance on authority appearances in the absence of explicit authority, thus safeguarding transactional security and reliability. …”
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AI-Powered Software Development: A Systematic Review of Recommender Systems for Programmers by Efthimia Mavridou, Eleni Vrochidou, Theofanis Kalampokas, Venetis Kanakaris, George A. Papakostas

“…Software engineering is a field that demands extensive knowledge and involves numerous challenges in managing information. …”
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STUDI ANALISIS MODEL DAN PENDEKATAN FATWA HUKUM KELUARGA KONTEMPORER DI KALANGA ULAMA’ MODERAT by Musthofa Syukur, Zainul Muin Husni

“…Basically the authority to determine Islamic law (tasyri') rests with God and His Messenger. Apart from being explicitly stated in the Qur'an, explicit information (qath'i) is also general in nature, mujmal (dhanni). …”
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Teaching Grammar: The Intersection of Teacher Stated Beliefs and Classroom Implementation by Rudha Widagsa, Andi Rahmawan, Dery Tria Agustin, Andrea

“…The findings reveal inconsistencies, demonstrating that while both teachers express a preference for implicit, communicative approaches, practical challenges such as large class sizes, curriculum demands, and varied student proficiency often necessitate the use of explicit instruction methods. …”
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Marginal Lands or Marginal People? Analysing Key Processes Determining the Outcomes of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Lao PDR and Cambodia by Peter Messerli, Amaury Peeters, Oliver Schoenweger, Vong Nanhthavong, Andreas Heinimann

“…This chapter aims to overcome the gap existing between case study research, which typically provides qualitative and process-based insights, and national or global inventories that typically offer spatially explicit and quantitative analysis of broader patterns, and thus to present adequate evidence for policymaking regarding large-scale land acquisitions. …”
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Interpreting insect behavior through the lens of executive functions by Bartosz Baran, Michał Obidziński, Mateusz Hohol

“…Many behaviors documented in the literature align with EF components, even if not explicitly labeled as such. Others can be reinterpreted as EF-driven. …”
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An Interpretable Combined Forecasting Method for Stock Market Based on Fuzzy Time Series Model and Linear-Trend Fuzzy Information Granulation by Jindong Feng, Zengtai Gong

“…Stock market forecasting demands models that balance high accuracy with interpretability, particularly when handling highly volatile and uncertain data. …”
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Automated Dead Chicken Detection in Poultry Farms Using Knowledge Distillation and Vision Transformers by Ridip Khanal, Wenqin Wu, Joonwhoan Lee

“…This method addresses key challenges such as the lack of explicit annotations for dead chickens, along with common farm issues like lighting variations, occlusions, cluttered backgrounds, chicken growth, and camera distortions. …”
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