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The study investigates the ways in which the use of anglicisms on the localized promotional websites of global companies may be beneficial for the companies. The study suggests that anglicisms may be used in a promotional text as a strategic device, and localization of anglicisms is defined as part of the localization process which requires the adaptation of the stylistic, grammatical, and sociolinguistic aspects of anglicisms to the target la...

In radio astronomy wider observing bandwidths are constantly desired to provide improved sensitivity and velocity coverage. As observing frequencies move steadily higher with advances in technology these needs become even more pressing. In order to process wider bandwidths, signal processing components that can perform at higher frequencies are required and integrated circuit approaches are an attractive way of addressing this problem. In this...

The present study is investigating the problems related to English plurals with special attention to foreign plural forms. This work does not intend to be a treatise on the whole problematic area of English nouns. The general purpose of seeking and analysing the matter is to draw attention to the great variety of plural forms in the English language.

Citizenship has been a deeply problematic notion since T. H. Marshall argued, in Citizenship and Social Class (1950), that even though national citizenship formally confers equal status to all members of a nation-state, inequalities of class will prevent full participation in political life. Drawing on the voices of Punjabi-speaking immigrants enrolled in an adult English as a Second Language program, this book reports a study shedding light ...

This book reveals the learnings from a complex change initiative implemented globally at an international software corporation. Like most organizations operating in a highly competitive environment, employees develop the ability to react quickly to constant change leaving little time for reflection and learning. This research was aimed at learning for the future, allowing leaders and organizations to fine-tune their approach to dealing with ch...

Designing a general purpose computer vision system with performance comparable to that of the human vision system is the goal of many researchers. This book introduces a local appearance method, termed coherency filtering, which allows for the robust detection and analysis of rigid objects contained in heterogeneous scenes by properly exploiting the wealth of information returned by a k-nearest neighbours (k-NN) classifier. A significant advan...

Why is Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra so much neglected compared to Romeo and Juliet? If one looks at the plot, one can find an abundance of similarities, among which the most important is the climax of both dramas, i.e. the suicides the main characters commit for each other. Yet, the reception of the two works is rather different. While the love of Romeo and Juliet is still a synonym for eternal love, the true story of Antony and Cleopatr...

With the Hispanic population projected to reach majority status in Texas by 2020, it is imperative to implement effective instructional programs in public schools that will prepare groups of English-language learners to function in the work force or in higher education. This book presents a causal-comparative study conducted with three groups of fourth-grade English-language learners who participated, for an extended period of time, in transit...

In early childhood education in Aoateroa/NewZealand, teachers work together as team members and are required to participate in a shared understanding of the philosophy of their early childhood setting. Teacher registration guides teachers through a process, where they work towards becoming valued early childhood education professionals. In this investigation a monthly facilitated registration meeting became the forum for five teachers working ...

This manuscript will discuss traditional gender roles and the products associated with males and females as well as analyze product advertisements that are targeted to people of color. The frequency of females and people of color in advertisements will also be observed to learn if these minority groups are either over or under represented on television.

As a small child I did not really know what I would be in my adulthood. I lived the everyday life of a child, but as far as I remember my keen admiration towards English language started as soon as I had begun learning it. This is what mainly affects my life. As a teacher of English I think it is important to find the right communication channels towards learners. That was the reason why I decided to assemble the most acquirable features of t...

This book discusses the idea of public justification as an approach to political legitimation in pluralistic societies. Public justification can be understood as the idea that political principles and institutions are legitimate only if they can be justified to all those subject to them. This apparently simple principle conceals a number of ambiguities, and raises the problem of how it could be realised in contemporary societies characterised ...

Oral assessment of student learning has a long history in tertiary education, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and features in examinations for entry into many professions. Despite its ubiquity, little is known about how oral assessment is experienced from the student?s perspective. Based on intensive student interviews, this book presents contrasting ways in which one common form of oral assessment ? the oral class presentation ...

This book presents a new approach for generating 3D models of the human ear using a novel imaging technology called Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). OCT performs high-resolution, cross-sectional tomographic imaging of the internal microstructure in materials and biological systems by measuring backscattered light. The idea is to use an OCT scanner to collect series of cross-sectional images, to compound these 2D images into a 3D volume and ...

The migration of the TELCO networks towards Next Generation Networks (NGN) requires new solutions in OSS/BSS. The standardization bodies for New Generation Operational software and Systems (NGOSS) are currently in the process of developing and describing the functional requirements and implementation solutions for such NGOSS applications. A large number of publicly available software applications are on offer. However the provided functionalit...

?I was interested in fox hunting because it is fascinating how a blood sport could survive till 2005 in a country where the first animal welfare organisation was founded as early as 1824. The thesis examines the social and cultural changes that have taken place in Great Britain, with special regard to the development of sport and the various ideologies about sports. I will illustrate these changes in perception through fox hunting, showing how...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is considered to be the fastest methodology to be used in order to improve business process in a current fast-changing environment. BPR attempts to achieve dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance by using the power of modern information technology (IT) fundamentally to rethink and radically to redesign the business process. However, many construction industries proposed BPR to evaluate the...

Classical and emerging paradigms of leadership are different when examined from a male or female perspective. Some key questions in leadership studies pertain to the influencing factors in the development of leadership styles and the general principles underlying research and theories described in the leadership literature, including social sources, Zeitgeist, and the psychological matrix of leadership. This book presents a study that examined...

Analog filters are vital building blocks in many modern electronic systems, their integration on-chip reduces size and cost due to the absence or limited use of external components. However, since lossless inductors cannot be integrated efficiently, it is necessary to emulate them using active circuitry. This issue adds many challenges to filter design because the use of active circuitry introduces noise and non-linearity to the system. Consid...

One of the greatest challenges facing Churches today is gathering a group of people together at the same time and in the same place for the purpose of spiritual formation. Most people find that demands upon their discretionary time outstrips their desire to participate in such endeavors. The answer is bending time and space through virtual programming. This book presents a paradigm that allows for parishioners to engage in virtual spiritual fo...