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The Effects of Multimodal Teaching on English Vocabulary Knowledge of Thai Primary School Students

It is increasingly prevalent in digital learning and teaching strategies for discerning a global perspective on creating the student learning experience. Multimodality is an emergent phenomenon that may influence how digital learning is designed, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic in which immersive learning environments, such as a virtual learning platform, were employed. This immersive platform may assist learners in engaging in, paying attention to, and reflecting on their learning. This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of multimodal teaching on primary school learners’ English vocabulary and their attitude toward the learning environment. The participants were 59 primary school students in the northeastern part of Thailand. They were divided into two groups: experimental and control groups. The former consisted of 33 students, while the latter comprised 26. Following Nation’s (2013) word knowledge framework, two tests were developed to measure participants’ receptive and productive knowledge of the words. L2 vocabulary scholars validated the tests, and the reliability of the tests was checked using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The questionnaire was also developed to explore the participants’ attitudes toward using multimodal teaching methods to improve their vocabulary knowledge. The results showed that although both groups increased their vocabulary knowledge, the statistical analysis revealed that the multimodal teaching technique significantly enhanced participants’ receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge. The results also indicated that primary school participants had a positive attitude toward using multimodal teaching methods to improve their vocabulary knowledge. The current study suggests that the multimodal teaching method effectively improves Thai primary school learners’ receptive and productive word knowledge and helps them learn new vocabulary.
Molecular and acoustic evidence support the species status of Anthus rubescens rubescens and Anthus [rubescens] japonicus (Passeriformes: Motacillidae).

The Buff-bellied Pipit Anthus rubescens comprises two allopatric subspecies groups: A. r. rubescens and A. r. alticola in North America and A. [r. ] japonicus in north-east Asia. Despite their great morphological resemblance in breeding plumage, most individuals can be assigned to one or the other subspecies group in non-breeding plumage. Allopatric distributions, morphological differentiation and previously reported molecular divergence suggested the need for additional taxonomic study to assess the rank of these two populations. To resolve the taxonomy of the Buff-bellied Pipit species complex we analysed i) two mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) loci and ii) nine bioacoustic parameters across 69 sound recordings (338 flight calls) recovered from public databases using principal component analysis and Euclidean distance measures. By comparing our mtDNA and call divergence measures with similar values measured between long-recognised species pairs of the genus, we show that the level of mitochondrial and acoustic divergence between the two Buff-bellied Pipit subspecies groups is typical of species-level divergence in the genus Anthus. Therefore, we recommend splitting the Buff-bellied Pipit species complex into two species: Anthus rubescens (American Pipit) and Anthus japonicus (Siberian Pipit). Our results also suggest that the Water Pipit A. spinoletta deserves taxonomic reassessment as its lineages are highly divergent in acoustics and mtDNA, while mtDNA relationships suggest paraphyly relative to the Rock Pipit A. petrosus. Our work highlights the crucial importance of integrative approaches in taxonomy and the usefulness of bioacoustics in studying cryptic diversity.
Factors Influencing The Individual Taxpayers’ Voluntary Compliance

The global issue in the implementation of the Self-Assessment System (STS) is to achieve a satisfactory voluntary tax compliance rate. This motivates this study to investigate the factors that influence voluntary tax compliance among individual taxpayers in Malaysia. Specifically, this study examines the effects of tax knowledge, gender, age, norms, individual values and attitudes, the complexity of the tax system, fairness, tax rates and peer influence on voluntary tax compliance. The study data is gathered from a randomly selected of 101 Kuala Lumpur individual taxpayers. The results of multiple regression analysis show that only (1) gender and (2) norms, values and individual attitudes have a positive relationship with voluntary tax compliance. In conclusion, in Malaysia there is evidence that the rate of voluntary tax compliance depends on personal factors particularly gender and values, not external factors like peers or tax authorities.
Phyllanthus maderaspatensis Linn. – A Comprehensive Review on Pharmacognosy, Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology

Phyllanthus maderaspatensis Linn. (family – Phyllanthaceae), commonly known as Madras leaf-flower, is a herbaceous medicinal plant, widespread in the tropical and subtropical regions of the old world. It is widely used to treat liver disorders, headache, constipation, diarrhoea, edematous, dysentery, fever, ulcer, burn, scabies and other diseases in Ayurveda and Unani. This review particularly deals with the pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, phytochemistry, pharmacology and other aspects of Phyllanthus maderaspatensis L.
Ecological studies on marine fouling invertebrates in Eastern Harbor, Alexandria, Egypt

This study aimed to study the settlement of fouling organisms in the Eastern Harbor of Alexandria during the period from 2019 to 2020. Seasonal samples of marine fouling invertebrate species had been collected using white roughened wood test panels. Some environmental parameters (temperature, transparency, salinity, pH, and dissolved oxygen) were studied. The fouling invertebrate species and taxa were identified and classified. Statistical analysis was conducted using primer and paste software. The results of this study showed that some environmental parameters such as dissolved oxygen and water temperature of marine water in Eastern Harbor, Alexandria can significantly affect the settlement of fouling organisms. The results showed also that the fouling was composed of 37 invertebrate species, belonging to 23 families, within 12 orders, 7 classes, and 6 phyla. The highest diversity phyla were Crustacea (20 species from 11 families), followed by Bryozoa (7 species from 7 families) and Annelida (6 species from 2 families). The biomass of fouling invertebrate families and their species varied in different depths. The most heavy families were Serpulidae and Balanidae. At 0.5 m depth, Hydroides elegans had the mostly heavy biomass (2720.2±1716.3 g/m 2 ); followed by Balanus amphitrite (889.3±687.4 g/m 2 ). At 1.5 m depth, also Hydroides elegans had the heavy biomass (2264.6±2506.7 g/m 2 ); followed by Balanus perforates (1691.3±3198.3 g/m 2 ). Seasonal variation in fouling invertebrate biomass showed that Hydroides eleganes represented the heaviest recorded biomass during spring, summer and autumn, while Balanus amphitrite was the heaviest biomass observed during winter.
Sub-Clinical Hepatic Encephalopathy in Cirrhotic Patients Subjected to Sedation with either Propofol or Midazolam‎

tachycardia. There was mild decrease in oxygen saturation during procedure more significant than what happened in midazolam group with no need for intubation. Regarding NCT one hour after and delta change of NCT, they showed significant increase in group B versus group C. Times of procedure and recovery were significantly prolonged in group B in comparison to group C. Conclusion: Midazolam exacerbates sub-clinical encephalopathy. The hypotension and tachycardia during the procedure were more significant in midazolam group than propofol group. Subjects receiving propofol showed shorter induction, time of procedure and recovery periods .
Staff Nurses' Perspective on Authentic Leadership's Role in Creativity, Job Crafting, and Deviant Behaviors at Work

Background: Authentic leadership can fulfill secondary requirements of nurses as well as foster a transparent and fair environment, which has a direct impact on their work performance, creativity, progression, and ethical behaviors. Aim: This study explored the staff nurses' perspective on authentic leadership's role in creativity, job crafting, and deviant behaviors at work. Subjects and methods: Design: A descriptive-correlational design was used. Setting: King Khalid Hospital and Prince Sattam University Hospital. Subjects: A convenience sample of 325 staff nurses was recruited . Tools: Including four tools: the authentic nurse leader questionnaire-staff leader evaluation, creativity scale of nurses, job crafting questionnaire, and workplace deviance scale. Results: The result suggests that nurses had a moderate perception of authentic leadership (56.77±14.35), moderate creativity (47.90±10.42), high job crafting (69.36±11.99), and a low level of deviant behaviors (27.66±7.94). In addition, the results revealed a highly significant positive correlation between authentic leadership and creativity and a significant positive correlation between creativity and job crafting. Conversely, a negative relationship existed between deviant behavior and genuine leadership, creativity, and job crafting. Conclusion: Authentic leadership is vital in enhancing nurses' creativity and may also reduce deviant behavior. Recommendation: Leaders and supervisors should be trained in the skills necessary for authenticity, which fosters the innovative, productive, and ethical conduct of nurses. Further investigations are recommended in this area.
Cultural and Gender Convergence in Adolescent Drunkenness Evidence From 23 European and North American Countries

Objective : To investigate time-trend changes in the frequency of drunkenness among European and North American adolescents. Design : Cross-sectional surveys in the 1997/1998 and 2005/2006 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study (HBSC). reported for each country and for the genders separately and were tested by t tests. To investigate the gender convergence hypothesis, the frequency of drunkenness was regressed on gen- der, survey year, and the interaction of both variables. To investigate the convergence of Eastern European countries and Western countries (including North America), the variation in the association between survey year and drunkenness across countries was regressed on the East-West variable described earlier. To approximate a normal distribution and to reduce the effect of extreme values, the outcome variable was log trans-formed. 25 The multilevel model was estimated using HLM ver-sion 6.02 statistical software 26 and was based on robust standard errors, which provide consistent results even with data that do not have a normal distribution. 27
Feasibility of a Bullying Bystander Intervention (STAC) Parent Module for Rural Schools

The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of parent training designed as a companion module to a bullying bystander intervention (STAC) for middle school students in rural communities. Parents (N = 23) invited from three rural middle schools viewed a parent training and completed measures to assess limited efficacy through immediate program outcomes (e.g., knowledge, confidence, self-efficacy, attitudes, behavioral intentions) and program feasibility, as well as participated in focus groups to provide feedback about program acceptability, demand, practicality, and online delivery adaptation. Parents reported increases in knowledge and confidence in supporting their adolescents to intervene in bullying situations, confidence and comfort in managing bullying, bullying self-efficacy, communication self-efficacy, responsibility to actively engage in bullying prevention, and anti-bullying attitudes from pre-training to post-training. Parents also reported behavioral intentions to use strategies they learned to support their adolescents to intervene in bullying situations. Further, parents’ responses suggested high levels of program acceptability, as well as interest in an interactive, self-paced online parent training. Themes from focus groups (n = 12) revealed a need for bullying prevention training for both students and parents in rural communities and found the training to be useful, easy to understand, and relevant and appropriate for their community. Parents identified barriers including cost, time, program flexibility, and the importance of parent buy-in. Parents also provided feedback specific to an online training, including a preference for a smartphone application and design elements to increase engagement. Implications for program development for rural communities are discussed.
Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes

Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world. Until recently, most scholars and scientists, as well as the general public, thought indigenous people had a minimum impact on Amazon forests, once considered to be total wildernesses. William Balee's research, conducted over a span of three decades, shows a more complicated truth. In Cultural Forests of the Amazon , he argues that indigenous people, past and present, have time and time again profoundly transformed nature into culture. Moreover, they have done so using their traditional knowledge and technology developed over thousands of years. Balee demonstrates the inestimable value of indigenous knowledge in providing guideposts for a potentially less destructive future of environments and biota in the Amazon. He shows that we can no longer think about species and landscape diversity in any tropical forest without taking into account the intricacies of human history and the impact of all forms of knowledge and technology. Balee describes the development of his historical ecology approach in Amazonia, along with important material on little-known forest dwellers and their habitats, current thinking in Amazonian historical ecology, and a narrative of his own dialogue with the Amazon and its people.
Asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimator for the growth rate of a stable CIR process based on continuous time observations

ABSTRACT We consider a stable Cox–Ingersoll–Ross process driven by a standard Wiener process and a spectrally positive strictly stable Lévy process, and we study asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for its growth rate based on continuous time observations. We distinguish three cases: subcritical, critical and supercritical. In all cases we prove strong consistency of the MLE in question, in the subcritical case asymptotic normality, and in the supercritical case asymptotic mixed normality are shown as well. In the critical case the description of the asymptotic behaviour of the MLE in question remains open.
Leader‐following consensus of nonlinear singular multiagent systems with intermittent communication

This paper investigates the leader‐following consensus of nonlinear singular multiagent systems with intermittent communication on a fixed undirected topology. Unlike the existing works on singular multiagent systems that the communication among agents is continuous, in this work, agents can only communicate with their neighbors on some disconnected time intervals. Based on algebraic graph theory, singular system theory and multi‐Lyapunov function approach, the cooperative intermittent control protocol and sufficient conditions are proposed to guarantee the existence and uniqueness of solutions and leader‐following consensus of the systems. Furthermore, a description of state jumps at the instants of communication interrupt and restoration is presented. Finally, numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.
The Workplace and Teacher’s Certification for Teacher’s Performance

The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of the workplace and teacher’s certification on teacher’s performance. This study was conducted at State Vocational Schools in the Ogan Komering Ilir district, with 95 teachers serving as participants. This study is quantitative by using questionnaires, interviews, and documentation as instruments. Validity and reliability tests were performed on the research instrument, as well as prerequisite tests for analysis of normality, linearity, multicollinearity, and heteroscedasticity tests. Descriptive analysis, simple linear regression, multiple regression correlation, and the coefficient of determination were used to analyze the data. The findings indicate that the workplace and teacher’s certification have an impact on teacher’s performance.
ESG Reporting Divergence

In this paper, we provide the first large-sample empirical analysis of the consequences of ESG reporting divergence among U.S. firms. We construct and validate an ESG reporting divergence measure based on the dissimilarities in ESG reporting across firms. We find it to be lower for firm-pairs using the same ESG reporting framework, with similar size, and with similar ESG performance than for other firm-pairs. We find that ESG reporting divergence is positively associated with ESG rating disagreement and weakens the positive association between ESG ratings and ESG fund allocation. These results indicate that ESG reporting divergence reduces the usefulness of ESG reporting for ESG rating providers and ESG fund managers. Furthermore, we find that ESG reporting divergence reduces investors’ reaction to negative ESG news. Finally, we corroborate our findings using a sample of U.S. firms that are likely affected by the EU ESG reporting regulation.
A Brain-Based Learning Strategy for Developing English Reading Comprehension of Primary Stage Pupils

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of the brain-based learning strategy on primary pupils' reading comprehension skills. The participants of the research included 73 pupils who were randomly chosen from 5 th year primary pupils at Mohamed Hafez Primary School during the first term of the 2021–2022 academic year. They were divided into two groups: experimental (N = 37) and control (N = 36). The present research entailed a reading comprehension pre/posttest designed by the researcher. The experimental group received instruction using the proposed program based on a brain-based learning strategy for developing their reading comprehension skills. On the other hand, pupils in the control group received their regular instruction using the traditional method of teaching. The reading comprehension test was administered pre-and post the experiment. A paired sample t-test was conducted to compare the means of the pupils’ scores on the pre-and post-test. Results revealed a statistically significant difference in the mean scores of the experimental group between the pre-and post-test of reading comprehension skills in favor of the posttest. An independent sample t-test was conducted to compare the means of the control group and the experimental group. Results revealed a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the control group and the experimental group in the reading comprehension post-test in favor of the experimental group. Accordingly, it was found that pupils in the experimental group have developed their reading comprehension skills as a result of using Brain-based learning instruction. It was concluded that the program based on a brain-based learning strategy, developed the 5 th primary pupils’ level of reading comprehension skills.
The impact of foreign ownership, corporate governance on earning management: Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

Abstract The study examines the effect of foreign ownership, corporate governance index on earning management in 169 listed companies in Vietnam from 2016 to 2020. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) method is used to test this relationship. The analysis results show that foreign ownership, corporate governance index negatively affects earning management. In particular, the interaction between foreign ownership and corporate governance index also has a negative effect on earning management. The research provides some implications to help businesses control earning management behavior and provide accurate financial information to stakeholders.
A center manifold for second order semilinear differential equations on the real line and applications to the existence of wave trains for the Gurtin–McCamy equation

This work is mainly motivated by the study of periodic wave train solutions for the so-called Gurtin-McCamy equation. To that aim we construct a smooth center manifold for a rather general class of abstract second order semi-linear differential equations involving non-densely defined operators. We revisit results on commutative sums of linear operators using the integrated semigroup theory. These results are used to reformulate the notion of the weak solutions of the problem. We also derive a suitable fixed point formulation for the graph of the local center manifold that allows us to conclude to the existence and smoothness of such a local invariant manifold. Then we derive a Hopf bifurcation theorem for second order semi-linear equations. This result is applied to study the existence of periodic wave trains for the Gurtin-McCamy problem, that is for a class of non-local age structured equations with diffusion. Key-words: Center manifold; second order semi-linear equations; integrated semigroups; Hopf bifurcation; periodic wave trains; Gurtin-McCamy equation. MSC: 37L10, 35J61, 35C07, 34C23, 47D62
First Assessment of Awareness and Knowledge of Glaucoma Among Citizens of Addu City, Maldives: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy characterized by visual field loss and potentially irreversible blindness, which poses a significant global health challenge. The Maldives, renowned for its unique geography and vibrant culture, faces unique challenges in healthcare access and delivery due to its scattered islands. Limited access to specialized healthcare services, coupled with cultural and socioeconomic factors, can contribute to disparities in glaucoma awareness and early detection. Understanding glaucoma awareness is paramount due to its potential impact on public health and the healthcare system. The aim of this study is to assess the awareness and knowledge about glaucoma among the citizens of Addu City, Maldives. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 390 residents of Addu City, Maldives. The online survey questionnaire assessed demographic information, knowledge and awareness of glaucoma, and risk factors associated with the disease. Results The majority of participants (66.9%) had never heard of glaucoma. Among those who had heard of glaucoma, only 22.6% knew that it could cause irreversible blindness. Logistic regression analysis and multivariate analysis showed that age, gender, socioeconomic status, and education level were significantly associated with awareness and knowledge of glaucoma (p<0.05). Conclusion Findings suggest a high likelihood of low awareness and knowledge of glaucoma among residents of Addu City, Maldives. The study highlights the urgent need for policymakers, program implementers, and the health sector to conduct awareness programs in the community and provide facilities for annual eye examinations, as well as to organize systematic screening plans for glaucoma across the Maldives.