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The facilitator gradually gives participants more freedom as well as uses more diverse tools to deliver instructions and tailors them based on each participant's understanding. Credit: Pusan National University When it comes to learning a language, there is no better opportunity to practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking than a book club. Within its supportive and interactive atmosphere, participants can engage in…

Design of survey flow for Study 2. Credit: Journal of Consumer Psychology (2022). DOI: 10.1002/jcpy.1297 The popularity of digital calendars over paper calendars has grown significantly due to instant access to appointments, meetings and dates. But which type of calendar leads to higher efficiency? Jay Yang, assistant professor of marketing at Cal State…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Not all nonprofits are created equal—and some exist mainly to capitalize on a tax law loophole that allows them to anonymously funnel donations to political causes. New University of Oregon research proposes an index that rates the financial transparency of social advocacy nonprofits to give people more awareness of organizations that are funneling anonymous donations, or "dark money," into…

Effect of Target Joining NATO, Overall and by Sender Country. Credit: Tomz et al. Voters in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states are far more willing to militarily defend another country if the country joins NATO, versus if the same country does not join NATO, according to a study published in the journal PNAS Nexus. To explore the possible…

Estimates of the effect of employment on well-being (left panel) and self-rated health (right panel) with 95% confidence intervals. The results for single mothers are shown in orange, and the results for partnered mothers are shown in purple. The first row displays the results of our main analysis. The second and third rows show the results for West Germany and East Germany; the fourth and fifth rows show the results for the period from 2005 to 2016…

The C and A denote cyclonic low-pressure and anticyclonic high-pressure circulation anomalies, respectively, induced by warmer NTA. MOD13A1 monthly mean enhanced vegetation index (EVI, shaded from brown to green) and North Tropical Atlantic SST anomaly (shaded from blue to red) in 2018. Credit: Science China Press A research group led by Associate Professor Jing Li from the School of Physics at Peking University published an…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain "Star Wars" is a series of science fiction fantasy movies and television shows. As is now quite common across movies and TV, the filming locations have become popular tourist destinations for fans of the franchise. Moreover, given the Disney buyout of the franchise from Lucasfilm in 2012, the inevitable theme park attractions at Disney resorts are now a major pull for that kind of tourism too.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Accounting standards don't properly reflect the difference between losses driven by investments and actual business performance shortfalls, according to new University at Buffalo School of Management research. Forthcoming in the Review of Accounting Studies, the study found that Generally Accepted…

This figure shows the results from the PISA study, grouped by skills and for the Nordic countries. The numbers in parentheses show girls’ results first and boys’ results after. The first box is reading, the second box is for maths, and the last box is for natural sciences. Credit: Hermundur Sigmundsson, NTNU How well do children know letters and their corresponding sounds? In Norway, the gender difference on these tasks when…

Credit: Ohio University Press Kiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and the globe. It's been adopted as a working language at the African Union and there's a push for it to become Africa's lingua franca or common language. Morgan J. Robinson is a historian of east Africa with a research focus on language who has published a book on Kiswahili called "A Language for the World." We asked her how…