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Management of research infrastructures: a South African funding perspective
This open access book provides an overview of the building blocks necessary for managing, steering and guiding the establishment of a research infrastructure (RI). It offers valuable insights into RI investment, access and management at the academic, grants management, agency and policy level, and serves as a useful guide for the research community, students, and those in the private sector wis…
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- 9783030372811
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- xx, 103p. : ill.
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- 001.44 RAM m
Educational change amongst english language college teachers in China : trans…
This open access book provides anthropological insights into the arduous yet rewarding journeys involved in selected TESOL teachers’ pedagogical transition to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at universities in Shanghai, the largest metropolitan area in China. Applying a unique combination of ethnography and phenomenology, the book offers innovative new perspectives on teacher…
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- 9789811530531
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- x, 149p. : ill.
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- 378.1982951 LI e
Open source archaeology : ethics and practice
This edited volume is designed to discuss important issues around open access to data and software in academic and commercial archaeology, as well as to summarise both the current state of theoretical engagement, and technological development in the field of open-archaeology.
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- 9783110440171
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- 160 p.
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- 930.1 OPE p
Intercultural dialogue in the european education policies : a conceptual appr…
This open access book analyses intercultural dialogue as a concept, policy and ideal in European education policy documentation. The core European transnational organizatons – the Council of Europe and the European Union – have actively promoted policies to engender inclusive societies and respond to challenges that diversification may entail. This book, in turn, offers suggestions for impr…
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- 9783030415174
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- xiv, 114p. : ill.
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- 370.117 LAH i
The History of Science in a World of Readers
What role should historians of science, technology, and medicine have in communicating their own body of literature - its methods and concerns - across linguistic boundaries? This anthology is a proactive response to this question. As the West and the East become ever more closely related through travel, trade, and - not least - the globalization of knowledge, the seven essays in this volume sh…
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- 9783945561423
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- 185 p.
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- 500 DAG h
Modeling information structure in a cross-linguistic perspective
This study makes substantial contributions to both the theoretical and computational treatment of information structure, with a specific focus on creating natural language processing applications such as multilingual machine translation systems. The present study first provides cross-linguistic findings in regards to information structure meanings and markings. Building upon such findings, the …
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- 9783946234906
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- XIII, 309 p.
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- Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
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- 400 SON m
Linking clauses and actions in social interaction
"This volume concerns the ways in which verbal and non-verbal actions are combined and linked in a range of contexts in everyday conversation, in institutional contexts, and in written journalism. The volume includes an introduction which, besides presenting the content of the articles, discusses terminological fundamentals such as the understanding of the terms “clause”, “action” and …
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- 9789522229007
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- 245 p
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- Studia Fennica Linguistica
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- 302 LIN l
The Non-Library
The Non-Library is a non-standard expression for life that is lived without mediation from words, images, or even ideas. While a thing called “the Library” continues to terrorize humanity even as it enters its last stages as a consequence of cataclysmic climate change and late capitalism, the Non-Library is a strictly performative, ahistorical immanence that suspends the Library’s insiste…
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- 9780615945446
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- VI, 84 p.
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- 027 JON n
The psychology of Silicon Valley : ethical threats and emotional unintelligen…
This open access book explores the conscious and unconscious norms, values, and characteristics that drive behaviors within the high-tech capital of the world, Silicon Valley, and the sector it represents. In an era where the reach and influence of a single industry has the potential to define the future of our world, it has become apparent just how little we know about the organizations drivin…
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- 9783030273644
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- viii, 314p. : ill.
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- 302.35 COO p
Rethinking health care ethics
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in …
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- 9789811308307
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- xv, 169p.
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- 171.7 SCH r
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