It is a widespread practice among Canadian school districts to assess the French language proficiency of candidates applying for as Second Language (FSL) teaching positions. This pan-Canadian study used surveys, interviews, and website data examine assessment practices processes by schools when hiring FSL teachers. The findings show that almost 90% teachers most common form ask one three questi...

Bigio et al. (1) report that oral administration of acetyl-Lcarnitine (LAC) results in antidepressant-like effects along with an improvement of energy metabolism in the ventral dentate gyrus in endogenously depressed Flinders Sensitive Line rats (FSL). FSL also show a significant reduction of LAC in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex compared with Flinders Resistant Line rats (2). However, i...

Abstract Monitoring plant diseases is essential for farmers to secure crop quantity and quality. Deep learning has recently been applied disease recognition help take prompt proper actions prevent reductions in Generally, deep requires a large‐scale dataset with supervised information annotated often by specialists. However, because collecting images natural environments difficult obtaining ann...

We investigated developmental changes during the transition from one-word to two-word production, focusing on strategies to lengthen utterances phonologically and to control utterances suprasegmentally. We hypothesized that there is a period of reorganization at the onset of word combinations indicated by decreases in both filler syllables (Fillers) and final syllable lengthening (FSL). The dat...

Several French national projects have been achieved last years, allowing linguist and computer scientists working on French Sign Language (FSL) to establish a permanent collaboration. During these projects, several video FSL corpora have been realised. One of the research orientations induced by these projects relates to multi-disciplinary annotation. From the computer scientist s side, the aim...

Femtosecond laser (FSL) cataract surgery is in its infancy but is rapidly gaining popularity due to the improved consistency and predictability for corneal incisions and anterior capsulorhexis. It enables subsequently less phacoemulsification energy and time to be employed, which has gains in terms of reduced corneal oedema. In addition, the FSL allows better circularity of the anterior capsulo...

This exploratory article describes (1) the self-reported instructional practices of a group 103 Kindergarten to Grade 12 French-as-a-second-language (FSL) teachers from school boards across Ontario, Canada before and after intensive extensive professional learning about Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) (2) areas strength opportunities for improvement in FSL proficiency 434 students On...

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been used to tackle the few-shot learning (FSL) problem and shown great potentials under transductive setting. However inductive setting, existing GNN based methods are less competitive. This is because they use an instance as a label propagation/classification module, which jointly meta-learned with feature embedding network. design problematic classifier need...

BACKGROUND Major depression is a severe mental illness that causes heavy social and economic burdens worldwide. A number of studies have shown that interaction between individual genetic vulnerability and environmental risk factors, such as stress, is crucial in psychiatric pathophysiology. In particular, the experience of stressful events in childhood, such as neglect, abuse, or parental loss,...