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Volume 0, Issue 0 (9-2025)
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One species of Lopaphus (Phasmida: Lonchodidae: Necrosciinae), namely L. sphalerus (Redtenbacher, 1908), is reported from China for the first time. The identification of this species is primarily based on female morphological characters: cerci triangular, distally tapering to an acute apex, projecting beyond posterior margin of anal segment; subgenital plate with distinct median carina, boat-shaped and strongly keeled, gradually tapering posteriorly, posterior margin narrowly rounded and acuminate, extending conspicuously beyond the posterior margin of anal segment. Mating pairs of males and females were captured in the wild. Information regarding the descriptions and morphological illustrations of both sexes and eggs and photographs of their natural habitat are provided. All the examined specimens are deposited in GXNU.
Volume 9, Issue 3 (Summer 2021)
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Aims: The increasing development of information communication technology is increasingly positively impacting individuals in various fields, including education. This research aimed to understand the causes of ineffective online learning from the point of view of activists.
Participants & Methods: This qualitative research was conducted in 2019 in the context of Instructors in the Department of Accounting, Padang State Polytechnic. This study used a phenomenological design with semi-structured interviews that focuses on activists' experiences (egos) who are central to the entire environment. Based on these assumptions, phenomenology seeks to find the intentionality behind the activist's behavior for his understanding.
Findings: In the view point of participants, the causes of ineffective online learning were cultural and emotional. The cultural aspects are categorized under awkwardness with technology and content and characteristics of online learning and the emotional aspects are categorized under instructors' pressures and workload and students’ dishonesty.
Conclusion: The effectiveness of online learning systems is about connectedness and quality. Meaning is a subjective truth that arises from the consciousness of a person who experiences and performs an action.
Volume 12, Issue 4 (Fall 2024)
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Aims: In this study, we evaluated the performance of direct microbial fuel cells using citric acid wastewater as a substrate under different concentrations of MLSS 1000 mg.L-1 and 3000 mg.L-1.
Materials & Methods: Aspergillus niger yeast was used as a microorganism over 4 days and nights of this experiment. A Nafion membrane was used for proton transfer, and graphite plates were used for electron transfer. COD removal efficiency, maximum open circuit voltage, power, and current density were evaluated.
Findings: The general trend of energy production and removal efficiency showed that energy production increased with increasing MLSS. The maximum of these variables was recorded for MLSS of 3000 mg.L-1, achieving a removal efficiency of 93%, an open circuit voltage of 500 mV, and power and current density of 24345 µW.m-2 and 444 mA.m-2, respectively.
Conclusion: Our results showed that the designed MFC suits wastewater treatment and energy recovery.
Volume 14, Issue 3 (July & August 2023 (Articles in English & French) 2023)
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Nowadays, the Flipped Classroom (FC) as a new model has become a trend in education especially due to the popularity of online education. Besides, today, social networking has found its way into education so that teachers and learners can use social media as a platform to streamline the educational process. Indeed, social networking has also become a well-known way of teaching that is shifting education while teachers and students work together in class. Furthermore, learners are often provided with new opportunities through social network platforms, and access to new models of communication to interact. Building on self-determination theories, the literature review considers the teachers’ motivation as one of the pivotal concerns about FC and it also puts more emphasis on the role of teachers’ engagement in higher education. Consequently, this review makes an effort to consider both issues, namely teachers’ motivation, and engagement within the process of FC through social networking. Overall, some implications are suggested for language stakeholders in an educational environment to consider the important issues in the process of implementing FC such as various kinds of educational platforms to increase their motivation and engagement.
Volume 15, Issue 1 (March & April (Articles in English & French) 2024)
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Dominating people’s lives, Social Media (SM) has gained a special place in every individual’s life in terms of becoming a tool to communicate with peers, families, and friends. Providing innovative functionalities, like forming groups, liking, reacting, and motivating, to modernize digital schooling, has made SM pervasive among students and teachers. The present paper tries to conceptually review and discuss the applicability of positive psychology in EFL education along with social-media-based language learning. Recently, in favor of distance learning, the world has witnessed a dramatic change in education, particularly in L2 learning, happening through social media (SM). However, there is a lack of a systematic study on the application of positive psychology in social media-based language learning, Therefore, it can be helpful to consider the effects of social media on L2 learning from a positive psychology perspective. As a first step in the field, the study aims to clarify how learners’ positiveness can bring about success and flourishment in social media-based L2 learning. Afterward, potential pedagogical implications and limitations are explained. With the hope of expanding the literature on PP in social-media-based Language learning, suggestions for future studies are proposed.
