IF 2.1 2区文学

Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101464

Hanzhong Sun , Wei Cheng , Hye Pae , Li Wang

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From the foundations of quantum mechanics to quantum optics: how John Clauser and Alain Aspect came to study the quantum properties of light 从量子力学的基础到量子光学：约翰·克劳瑟和阿兰·奥派西是如何开始研究光的量子特性的

IF 0.7 2区哲学

Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1007/s00407-025-00351-x

Gautier Depambour

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Collegiate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Communicative Constitution of Resilience: A Case Study 大学生运动员和教练员心理弹性交际构成的个案研究

IF 2.7 1区文学

Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251376367

Lillian B. Feder

{"title":"Collegiate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Communicative Constitution of Resilience: A Case Study","authors":"Lillian B. Feder","doi":"10.1177/21674795251376367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251376367","url":null,"abstract":"Resilience processes are communicative in nature and vital to the wellbeing and success of athletic personnel and organizations. However, the communicative components of resilience-building are largely ignored in sport scholarship and practice. This study seeks to bridge that gap by using the communication theory of resilience as a sensitizing concept to develop a thorough understanding of communicative resilience-building processes in athletics. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with members of a Division I college baseball team were analyzed using thematic co-occurrence analysis. Findings indicate that collegiate athletes and coaches experience resilience-building as a combination of mental toughness (i.e., persistence and discipline) and resourcefulness (i.e., social support, vulnerability, (self-)reflection, and positive self-talk). Findings also reveal three relationships between co-occurring themes. First, participants who focused on the process over the outcome of persistence developed greater (self-)awareness and found better solutions to the issues they faced. Second, providing social support to other network members motivated participants to regulate their own emotions and to remain disciplined amid adversity. Third, participants who communicated their vulnerability were empowered to seek out social support as a partial solution to disruptive events. These findings demonstrate the communicative and collective nature of resilience processes and inform suggestions for resilience-building in athletics.","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emerging infectious disease outbreaks and real-time health communication: intermediality, uncertainty and dissent. 新发传染病暴发和实时卫生通信：中间性、不确定性和异议。

IF 1.2 1区哲学

British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1017/S000708742510126X

Kirsten Ostherr

{"title":"Emerging infectious disease outbreaks and real-time health communication: intermediality, uncertainty and dissent.","authors":"Kirsten Ostherr","doi":"10.1017/S000708742510126X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S000708742510126X","url":null,"abstract":"This article maps out the challenges of public global health communication in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by providing an overview of the shifting media of health communication from the post-Second World War era to the present. The article explores the communication of science in real-time or live media of film, television, video and digital social media during three emerging infectious-disease (EID) outbreaks to place COVID-19 health communication in historical perspective. Examination of the transition from centralized, top-down communications to distributed, many-to-many, mobile communication illuminates challenges to expertise, authority and control of health narratives and imagery. Through theories of intermediality, the article explores the central function of gaps in communication networks. The article considers three cases of crisis communications amid EIDs: the influenza outbreak of 1957, HIV/AIDS around 1990 and COVID-19 in the early 2020s, and the challenges posed by scientific uncertainty under these circumstances of live, intermedial health communication. The article concludes that 'liveness' in intermedial health communications may have an inherently destabilizing effect on scientific authority.","PeriodicalId":46655,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145001622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effects of minimal pair competitors on voice onset time and pitch accent production in South Swedish 最小对竞争者对瑞典南部语音开始时间和音高重音产生的影响

IF 2.4 1区文学

Journal of Phonetics Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101445

Benjamin M. Kramer, Jason A. Shaw

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Assessing the influence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on awareness and behavior in medical research integrity: An online survey study. 评估生成式人工智能（GenAI）对医学研究诚信意识和行为的影响：一项在线调查研究

IF 4 1区哲学

Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2025.2554696

Xiaoting Peng, Yufeng Cai, Dehua Hu, Yi Guo, Haixia Liu, Xusheng Wu, Qingyuan Hu

{"title":"Assessing the influence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on awareness and behavior in medical research integrity: An online survey study.","authors":"Xiaoting Peng, Yufeng Cai, Dehua Hu, Yi Guo, Haixia Liu, Xusheng Wu, Qingyuan Hu","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2025.2554696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2025.2554696","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Generative Artificial Intelligence(GenAI) significantly enhances medical research efficiency but raises ethical concerns regarding research integrity. The lack of systematic guidelines for its ethical use underscores the need to investigate GenAI's impact on researchers' awareness and behavior concerning integrity.Methods/materials: A cross-sectional survey of 718 valid responses from Chinese medical researchers assessed GenAI's impact on research integrity using an extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology(UTAUT) model.Results: The findings reveal that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, technical environment, trust in technology, and supporting conditions positively influence researchers' awareness of research integrity. Conversely, GenAI anxiety and perceived risks exert a significant negative impact. Furthermore, both supporting conditions and integrity awareness are positively associated with integrity behavior, while GenAI anxiety negatively affects such behavior.Conclusion: The stakeholders in the medical research ecosystem should develop comprehensive guidelines for the responsible use of GenAI. Emphasis should be placed on optimizing the technical environment, enhancing trust and support structures, and embedding integrity safeguards, thereby promoting the synergistic development of technological innovation and ethical research practices.","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":" ","pages":"1-32"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145001870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring the motivation and classroom engagement of college learners of English for academic purposes: A participatory action research intervention 探讨大学英语学术学习者的学习动机和课堂参与：参与式行动研究干预

IF 4.2 1区文学

Language Teaching Research Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1177/13621688251352278

Alireza Sobhanmanesh

{"title":"Exploring the motivation and classroom engagement of college learners of English for academic purposes: A participatory action research intervention","authors":"Alireza Sobhanmanesh","doi":"10.1177/13621688251352278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688251352278","url":null,"abstract":"Learners of English for academic purposes (EAP) encounter various academic and social challenges in their learning pursuits. To explore collaborative ways of energizing their learning behaviour, an intervention was designed and implemented through the participation of 18 EAP learners and their teacher in a Canadian college classroom for one semester. Adopting a participatory action research framework, the group formed a community in which power was gradually shared and collaborative changes were made to lesson design and delivery. Moreover, the learners participated in the design and implementation of social activities in which they interacted with other members of the public and investigated their mini-research projects. Data were collected through recurrent experience sampling surveys ( n = 449), semi-structured interviews, and the researcher’s journal and field notes. Results indicated an overall increase in classroom engagement and motivation after implementing the intervention despite the fluctuations of the former and the occasional stagnation of the latter. Furthermore, a linear mixed-effects analysis of repeated measures data revealed significant differences between the learners’ engagement levels before and after implementing the intervention. Finally, the concepts of motivation and engagement and their timescales were complementary, revealing noteworthy information about the learners’ desire to participate in classroom activities, as well as their actual participation in activities.","PeriodicalId":47852,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching Research","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145009015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Brain dynamics of crosslinguistic interference resolution in Spanish–English bilinguals with and without aphasia 有和无失语症的西英双语者跨语言干扰解决的脑动力学

IF 3.6 1区文学

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728925100461

Katherine Diane Andrade, Henrike K. Blumenfeld, Stéphanie Kathleen Riès

{"title":"Brain dynamics of crosslinguistic interference resolution in Spanish–English bilinguals with and without aphasia","authors":"Katherine Diane Andrade, Henrike K. Blumenfeld, Stéphanie Kathleen Riès","doi":"10.1017/s1366728925100461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728925100461","url":null,"abstract":"Bilinguals simultaneously activate both languages during word retrieval. False cognates, words overlapping in form but not meaning across languages, typically trigger crosslinguistic interference relative to non-cognates. Crosslinguistic interference resolution can be impaired in bilinguals with stroke-induced aphasia, yet little is known about the neural dynamics supporting these interference resolution processes. We recorded scalp electroencephalography in 21 age-matched controls and five bilinguals with aphasia participating in a picture-word interference paradigm eliciting crosslinguistic interference and a nonlinguistic spatial Stroop task. Bilinguals with aphasia showed lower performance than age-matched controls and crosslinguistic interference was present across both groups. A medial frontal component peaking around 400 ms post stimulus presentation was present in controls across tasks but was absent in the linguistic task in bilinguals with aphasia. This suggests that while bilinguals typically engage the medial frontal cortex to resolve crosslinguistic interference, this mechanism is disrupted in bilinguals with aphasia.","PeriodicalId":8758,"journal":{"name":"Bilingualism: Language and Cognition","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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(Trans)Locality in Social Media News Engagement: Geographic Effects on the Quality of Online Discussion 社交媒体新闻参与的地域性：地理对网络讨论质量的影响

IF 5.4 1区文学

Digital Journalism Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2025.2554246

Yufan Guo, Luqing Zhou

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Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other: a reply to Gillon. 个人记忆和远读可以相辅相成：回复吉隆。

IF 3.4 2区哲学

Journal of Medical Ethics Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1136/jme-2025-111310

Vilius Dranseika, Piotr Bystranowski, Tomasz Żuradzki

{"title":"Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other: a reply to Gillon.","authors":"Vilius Dranseika, Piotr Bystranowski, Tomasz Żuradzki","doi":"10.1136/jme-2025-111310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2025-111310","url":null,"abstract":"We respond to Gillon's critique of our data-driven analysis of the history of Journal of Medical Ethics (JME), in which we used a topic model to trace intellectual trends in the journal's first 50 years. Gillon, drawing on his personal memories as JME's second (and longest serving) editor, challenges several of our findings, particularly those concerning the prominence and classification of topics such as Ethics education In this reply, we clarify misunderstandings that led to part of his criticisms of our method. At the same time, we also briefly discuss some nuances of topic modelling, in particular, its reliance on simplified representations of text, sensitivity to modeling choices and topic interpretations. Rather than viewing computational models and editorial memory as competing sources of insight, we propose that they are complementary: each illuminates different dimensions of the journal's evolution. Gillon's engagement with our work ultimately highlights the importance of methodological transparency and the value of combining digital humanities tools with lived experience in the historiography of academic disciplines.","PeriodicalId":16317,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145000747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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