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Open AccessRisk factors for avascular necrosis of the femoral head after developmental hip dislocation reduction surgery and construction of Nomogram prediction model
To analyze the risk factors for the development of avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head after reduction surgery in children with developmental hip dysplasia (DDH), and to establish a prediction nomogram.
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Rethinking artificial intelligence from the perspective of interdisciplinary knowledge production
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Open AccessPrevalence, risk factors, impact and management of pneumonia among preschool children in Chinese seven cities: a cross-sectional study with interrupted time series analysis
Pneumonia is a common disease worldwide in preschool children. Despite its large population size, China has had no comprehensive study of the national prevalence, risk factors, and management of pneumonia amon...
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Student-Level Variables and Academic Achievement in a Mandarin Dual Language Immersion Program
Inspired by the pioneering work of Dr. G. R. Tucker and colleagues on French Immersion in Canada, later known as the St. Lambert experiment (Lambert & Tucker, Journal of Educational Psychology, 65(2), 141–159, 19...
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Open AccessPreconceptional and prenatal exposure to diurnal temperature variation increases the risk of childhood pneumonia
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death and hospitalization among young children worldwide, but its risk factors remain unclear.
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Study on urban construction land optimization based on geological environment suitability evaluation
In order to realize the optimal allocation of urban construction and geological environment resources, in this paper, the suitability evaluation index system is established, the comprehensive index method is u...
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Evaluation and planning of urban geological and ecological environment quality
In order to achieve the goal of mutual coordination between the urban construction and sustainable development of geological and ecological environment, the evaluation method and planning strategy for urban ge...
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Teaching and Learning Chinese through Immersion: A Case Study from the North American Context
With the promise of achieving bilingualism, biliteracy, and cultural pluralism, Chinese immersion programs for students from kindergarten to 12th grade (K-12) in North America, especially the US, have been pro...
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G-C3N4 Nanosheets Coupled with TiO2 Nanosheets as 2D/2D Heterojunction Photocatalysts Toward High Photocatalytic Activity for Hydrogen Production
TiO2/g-C3N4 2D/2D heterojunction nanocomposites were successfully synthesized through a facile self-assembly method. The structure characterization results shows good interaction between TiO2 nanosheets and g-C3N
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Towards Photo-Realistic Visible Watermark Removal with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
Visible watermark plays an important role in image copyright protection and the robustness of a visible watermark to an attack is shown to be essential. To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of watermark, ...
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Introduction
This chapter introduce the setting, rationale, and the purpose of the book. It also outlines the organization of this book, chapter by chapter.
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One-Way Immersion and Mandarin Immersion in the United States
This chapter defines the terminologies key to this project, including one-way immersion, one-way foreign language immersion, and dual language immersion. In addition, it presents an updated analysis of one-way...
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Pacific Elementary School
This chapter describes the program on which the research projects described in the book were based. The goal is to contextualize the It began with a brief description of the history of the school, and of the C...
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Recommendation for Program-Level Practices and Future Research Agenda
This is the concluding chapter of this book. The goals and findings from the preceding chapters are revisited, based on which recommendations for program-level and classroom-level practices for the focal progr...
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Theoretical Framework, Literature Review, and the Current Project
This chapter first provides the theoretical underpinnings for the studies described in this book, including the component approach to reading, cross-linguistic transfer, and metalinguistic awareness in reading...
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Chinese Language, Orthography, and Learning to Read
This chapter, outlines the characteristics of the Chinese language and orthography, and discusses their implications for learning to read Chinese. Specifically, this chapter describes the phonology and morphol...
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Oral Language, Phonological Awareness, Word Reading, and Passage Reading Comprehension in Grade 2
This chapter describes a study that examined the cross-linguistic relationships among earlier oral language, phonological awareness, word reading and later passage reading comprehension. The participants were ...
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Implications for Chinese Literacy Learning and Instruction in Chinese OWI Programs: A Proposal
This chapter first discusses the limitation of the studies included in this volume; subsequently, based on the findings from the preceding chapters, discusses the implications for vocabulary learning and instr...
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Properties of School Chinese
This chapter analyzes the properties of printed school materials used in the focal program and compares it with those used in other educational settings. The results yielded from the analysis and comparison su...
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Morphological Awareness, Vocabulary Knowledge, Lexical Inference, and Text Comprehension in Chinese in Grade 3
This chapter details a study that examined the relationship among morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, lexical inference skills, and text comprehension in Chinese. The participants were a group of th...
