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Middle Tennessee State University
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- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Abstract Writing is a cornerstone of academic success, yet English language learners (ELL) in the United States must learn to write while also developing English proficiency. Although descriptive reviews suggest that writing instruction can benefit these learners, no prior meta-a...
- Society & Economics
Reading comprehension is a complex cognitive process that entails the ongoing integration of textual units, guided by syntactic structures, to construct a coherent representation of a text. Understanding complex sentence structures and applying syntactic knowledge to construct me...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Digital twin for city traffic emissions using deep vision and real time monitoring
Urban on-road air pollution remains a pervasive threat to public health, yet its management is fundamentally constrained by a lack of spatiotemporal precision in emission inventories. Conventional inventories rely on static, registration-based proxies that fail to capture the hig...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Abstract In 2021, the government of late President Muhammad Buhari signed the Finance Act of 2021 into law. This law, through the Customs, Excise, Tariffs, etc. (Consolidation) Act, instituted a ₦10-per-litre tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to reduce excessive added-sugar consum...
- Society & Economics
Still a soldier: Navigating military identity during incarceration
Incarcerated veterans are a unique segment of the prison population, but despite growing research, the voices of incarcerated veterans remain largely absent from literature. Drawing upon Narrative Identity Theory, this study examines how veterans construct and negotiate their mil...