Importance of English consonants classification for EFL learners

The practical formula of this paper helps the readers (EFL learners) how can they work by themselves to explain and realize the articulation of the English consonant sounds. However, the theoretical material is necessary for anyone who needs to understand the principles of regulating these sounds in spoken English. Most of the readers (EFL students) are aware of the importance of linguistics topics, but they do not have sufficient basic knowledge to understand these topics, especially Phonetics and Phonology. It is an endeavour to show the general categorization existing in consonants on the phonological aspects. Most of the time, there are three labels that are given a little awareness in instructors’ lectures to EFL students as if they existed worthless. Thus, while explaining the English consonant sounds, it is recommended that the EFL instructors should pay equal awareness to these labels with different class activities. The quantity of data displayed in some figures with (151) examples as part of direct education. These data were procured from Google Scholars, Google Books and other websites.

Development of a Mobile Application to Buy Books through Visual Recognition

Mobile devices have become the most used tool for a large number of tasks that we regularly perform such as relating them, searching for information, and in particular for making purchases. A situation that is frequently repeated in many areas is discovering an object that belongs to another person but we would be interested in being able to acquire it. However, the problem arises of knowing where to buy it. For example, this happens with the clothes that other people are wearing. Today, technology offers recognition mechanisms that can help solve this problem. This article presents an Android app that can recognize a book based on an image and offer places where it can be purchased. For this, Google technology was used to recognize objects from images and it has been combined with the information provided by Google Books to find stores that sell recognized books. In this way, a system has been created that makes it easier for any user to identify and purchase books that they discover at any given time.

OCLC library holdings: assessing availability of academic books in libraries in print and electronic compared to citations and altmetrics

Although library holding data is constructed upon work format of books, it is less known how much print and electronic books in libraries contribute to the library holding counts. In response, this research is an attempt to explore the distribution of library holding data across work formats and investigate the availability of library print holdings and library electronic holdings for books as constituents of the library holding metric across fields and over time and compared with other book metrics. ISBNs, titles and author names of 119,794 Scopus-indexed book titles across 26 fields were examined for fourteen variables including OCLC Library Holdings, Scopus Citations, Google Books Citations, Goodreads engagements, and Altmetric indicators. There are three major findings: (a) library holdings are a more comprehensively available metric for books (over 97%) than any other metric and could be useful after short time after first edition publication, followed by Google Books, Goodreads and Scopus, respectively; (b) on average electronic holdings are seven times (median three times) more numerous than print holdings and their ratio is growing considerably for more recent books; (c) there is consistent downward trend in average print book holdings, suggesting that library print holding data are cumulative in nature and statistically comparable to formal citations; however, acquisition of electronic books in libraries is inconsistent in distribution plot as well as over time. In sum, the differences between print and electronic holding data are broad making them distinct metrics, suggesting that further research is needed for understanding their implications for book impact assessment.

Multicultural Inclusive Education in the Deradicalization of Islamic Education in Indonesia

It is projected that multicultural inclusive education will prevent acts of extremism and intolerance. This study aimed to examine how multicultural inclusive education could be used to deradicalize Islamic education in Indonesia. In June 2020, the researchers searched the Google Books database for library research. The prism technique was used to gather and extract data based on the established inclusion and exclusion criteria. According to the analysis, multicultural inclusive education can be employed as a substitute for instilling an understanding of peaceful coexistence in the contexts of nationality and humanity. If multicultural inclusive education is conducted properly by following the steps outlined, efforts to deradicalize Islamic education in Indonesia may be successful, as multicultural inclusive education is founded on consistency, openness, introduction, comprehension, recognition, and appreciation. This study illustrates that multicultural inclusive education can deradicalize Islamic education in Indonesia due to its adaptability to the primary material in Islamic education.

Why does library holding format really matter for book impact assessment?: Modelling the relationship between citations and altmetrics with print and electronic holdings

Scholarly books are important outputs in some fields and their many publishing formats seem to introduce opportunities to scrutinize their impact. As there is a growing interest in the publisher-enforced massive collection of ebooks in libraries in the past decade, this study examined how this influences the relationship that library print holdings (LPH), library electronic holdings (LEH) and total library holdings (TLH) have with other metrics. As a follow up study to a previous research on OCLC library holdings, the relationship between library holdings and twelve other metrics including Scopus Citations, Google Books (GB) Citations, Goodreads engagements, and Altmetric indicators were examined for 119,794 Scopus-indexed book titles across 26 fields. Present study confirms the weak correlation levels observed between TLH and other indicators in previous studies and contributes additional evidence that print holdings can moderately reflect research, educational and online impact of books consistently more efficient than eholdings and total holdings across fields and over time, except for Mendeley for which eholdings slightly prevailed. Regression models indicated that along with other dimensions, Google Books Citations frequently best explained LPH (in 14 out of 26 fields), whereas Goodreads User counts were weak, but the best predictor of both LEH and TLH (in 15 fields out of 26), suggesting significant association of eholdings with online uptake of books. Overall, findings suggest that inclusion of eholdings overrides the more impactful counts of print holdings in Total Library Holdings metric and therefore undermines the statistical results, whilst print holdings has both statistically and theoretically promising underlying assumptions for prediction of impact of books and shows greater promise than the general Library Holding metric for book impact assessment. Thus, there is a need for a distinction between print and electronic holding counts to be made, otherwise total library holding data need to be interpreted with caution.

Identification of transfer pricing practices in the era of multinational company competition

This study presents the results of identifying practical transfer pricing among multinational companies operating in an era full of global competition. The study is to gain an understanding and experience of practical transfer pricing among foreign companies operating in Indonesia. Our data search was conducted on international publications. After getting the data, our in-depth data analysis efforts involve a data evaluation system, data interpretation, and coding so that the data we produce answers the study questions with the highest principles. We report this study is a descriptive qualitative data study guided by studies and evidence in the field so that we can arrange this style with a phenomenological approach, which is an effort to examine and explore the data in-depth so that we can use the data and discuss it as findings. The literature sources that we visited were complications such as Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Google books, application, and Eric. Using keywords search, which included “transfer pricing, corporate practice, international, competition era, and identification."

The Marginalized Democracies of the World

This introductory article to Democratic Theory’s special issue on the marginalized democracies of the world begins by presenting the lexical method for understanding democracy. It is argued that the lexical method is better than the normative and analytical methods at finding democracies in the world. The argument then turns to demonstrating, mainly through computational research conducted within the Google Books catalog, that an empirically demonstrable imbalance exists between the democracies mentioned in the literature. The remainder of the argument is given to explaining the value of working to correct this imbalance, which comes in at least three guises: (1) studying marginalized democracies can increase our options for alternative democratic actions and democratic innovations; (2) it leads to a conservation and public outreach project, which is epitomized in an “encyclopedia of the democracies”; and (3) it advocates for a decolonization of democracies’ definitions and practices and decentering academic democratic theory.

COMPARATIVE CONCEPTOLOGY OF POWER AND RESISTANCE USING GOOGLE NGRAM BOOKS

The article discusses the evolution of key concepts referring to governmentality in comparative perspective. The Russian discourse on government and power is compared with the Western discourse. The Google Books Ngram Viewer databank covering the period from 1800 to 2019 is used as a source of information. This databank contains more than 5% of all published books. The proposed discourse analysis suggests that the Russian and Western discourses have some elective affinity: in both cases there is little room for truth telling and whistle-blowers face significant risk.

Um olhar sobre a rede de assistência à saúde: organização e desafios da Rede de Cuidados à Pessoa com Deficiência

Este estudo teve como objetivo apresentar, discutir e refletir sobre a formação da Rede de Cuidado à Pessoa com Deficiência (RCPD) e seus desafios. Foi realizada uma Revisão Integrativa, elegendo-se artigos publicados nas bases de dados da LILACS, do SciELO, do Pub Med e do Google Books. Foram incluídas 11 publicações de Instituições Públicas e 25 artigos na amostra final. Os dados foram analisados e sistematizados em 3 segmentos: a Rede de Assistência à Saúde: elementos constitutivos e organizacionais; a RCPD e as propostas de ação, desafios e fragilidades. Fatores como a capacitação permanente dos profissionais de saúde, a integração com as Instituições de Educação Superior e a organização dos serviços são necessárias para que através da subjetividade do acolhimento humanizado ocorra a transformação das ações em fatores impactantes no cotidiano da vida e na produção do processo de saúde desses indivíduos. Em que pese os avanços assegurados pela legislação, o cotidiano dos serviços de saúde ainda não reflete esses diretos. A fragmentação da rede de assistência ao paciente com deficiência não tem proporcionado a assistência resolutiva e equânime prevista, quer por falta de capacitação da equipe de saúde, quer por baixo poder de gestão dos serviços e até o baixo financiamento previsto para essa área. Fica evidente a necessidade da ampliação e qualificação do acesso à saúde a essa população vulnerável, a partir da resolutividade implementada na rede de assistência.

Understanding Blended Learning Strategy in Increasing Students Motivation After Reopening Schools

This exploration is expected to search many insightful articles on mixed helping blended learning strategies to upgrade understudy learning results in complex and routine circumstances. To all the more likely comprehend and scholarly involvement in mixed learning, we accumulated information and data by doing a virtual information search on some notable distributions on educational issues and utilizing innovation to improve learning results. We utilized the expressions "distributions" to allude to information from ERIC, Google Books, Taylor&France, Elsevier, and Sagepub. We directed a top-to-bottom review utilizing an inside and out evaluation and coding framework to find the solutions utilizing a phenomenological technique. Subsequently, given the assessment of the principal discoveries, we can presume that a hybrid or blended learning system is a learning approach that consolidates a scope of instructive procedure techniques to help understudies accomplish more prominent degrees of accomplishment than traditional methodologies alone. A mixture and blended learning framework joins vis-à-vis guidance with PC helped training. It is expected that these outcomes would fill in as supporting writing for future examinations and applications.