VALUES AFFIRMATION REPLICATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Values affirmation replication at the University of Illinois

Values affirmation exercises have been implemented in many contexts to combat stereotype threat Switch in students from marginalized populations; the exercises are intended to fortify students by prompting them to self-affirm their values in short writing activities.Within the physics education research community, the style of intervention was unde

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Legal Discourse: Text Analysis and Translation Strategies

The article deals with basic requirements to the translation for specific purposes, namely legal translation.The problem posed here is defining object and theoretical basis of legal translation.The question of the necessity of information search as an integral part of Switch translation strategy has been raised.Detailed analysis revealed that the r

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South Africa, Sweden, and Good International Citizenship

There are those who argue that a state embodying good international citizenship (GIC) must actively seek to improve the world around it, thereby making a positive contribution to overcoming global challenges.A good international citizen (state) must also be a proponent of multilateral cooperation, usually manifesting in global platforms such as the

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Changes in the number of white blood cells and non-specific markers of inflammation in the body of rabbits in experimental osteoarthritis of the knee joint

Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disease in animals, which is not always treatable.Both in veterinary and in human medicine, laboratory research methods are used to effectively diagnose this pathology.The purpose of this study was to establish the dynamics of markers of the acute phase of inflammation in the blood using experimental modellin

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Vegetation Fires in the Lubumbashi Charcoal Production Basin (The Democratic Republic of the Congo): Drivers, Extent and Spatiotemporal Dynamics

In the Lubumbashi charcoal production basin (LCPB) in Southeastern DR Congo, agricultural and charcoal production activities regularly give rise to fires that lead to considerable degradation of the miombo open forest.This study analyzes the drivers of the spatiotemporal distribution of active fires and burnt areas in the LCPB by processing MODIS I

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