Contrastive grammar : a theory and practice handbook

En consonancia con los lineamientos del programa vigente de Gramática Contrastiva, materia incluida en el programa de estudios del Traductorado de Inglés de la Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, el objetivo principal de Contrastive Grammar: A Theory and Practice Handbook es brindar a los estudiantes un manual que combine las gramáticas descriptivas del inglés y del español. No pretende ser una revisión completa de todas las diferencias lingüísticas existentes entre ambas lenguas: por el contrario, el objetivo del presente manual es combinar información teórica clave con prácticas variadas respecto de estructuras dispares que representan la fuente más frecuente de interferencia entre los dos sistemas.Fil: Gómez Calvillo, M. Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Meehan, Patricia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Díaz, M. Josefina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Rolfi, Laura. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina

Macro-reasoning and cognitive gaps: understanding post-Soviet Russians’ communication styles.

Russians and Westerners access, process and communicate information in different ways. Whilst Westerners favour detailed analysis of subject matter, Russians tend to focus on certain components that are, in their view, significant. This disparity makes it difficult to achieve constructive dialogues between Western and Russian stakeholders contributing to cross-cultural communication problems. The author claims that the difference in the ways Russians and Westerners negotiate information is a significant cultural difference between Russia and West rather than an irritating (and in principle amenable) lack of analytical skills on the Russian partners’ part. Understanding the reasons behind the Russian-specific approaches to dealing with information would be a positive step towards a more effective cross-cultural communication, important in business situations and essential in diplomacy

The Cowl - v.37 - n.10 - Nov 3, 1982

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 37 - November 3, 1982. 12 pages

The Weather Project: Displacements, Scaffolding and Meteorological Models for a Critical Evaluation of the Public Display

En el año 2003 el artista danés Olafur Eliasson inauguraría en la Sala de las Turbinas de la Tate Modern de Londres su ambiciosa propuesta The Weather Project, proyecto por el que se haría mundialmente famoso y que hoy día sigue siendo una de sus obras más conocidas. Durante los cinco meses que duró la exposición un brumoso atardecer permanecería congelado en el tiempo en el interior de esta importante plaza cubierta de la ciudad inglesa. El escenario orquestado por el artista conseguiría invertir el significado mismo del edificio de Herzog y de Meuron. Por un lado una parte de Londres penetraría al edificio, su atmósfera, y, a través de la experiencia y el recuerdo de la obra, el espectador se llevaría su personal sol al exterior. Edificio y ciudad, intervención y preexistencia quedarían así alterados en esta suerte de “accidente” meteorológico provocado por Eliasson. Con el Sol de la Tate como ejemplo de fondo, el texto que aquí se presenta pretende ahondar en los argumentos, conceptos y estrategias desarrolladas por Olafur Eliasson en sus intervenciones en la esfera pública haciendo hincapié en las relaciones y transformaciones que se producen en escenario y espectador como consecuencia de los desplazamientos conceptuales y materiales propuestos por el artista.In 2003, Danish artist Olafur Eliasson would unveil his ambitious proposal, The Weather Project, in the Turbine Hall at the London Tate Modern. This project then went on to become internationally renowned and today, it remains one of his best–known pieces. During the five months on display, a misty sunset would remain frozen in time within this important indoor space located in the English capital. This scene, put together by the artist, would manage to invert the very meaning of the building by Herzog and de Meuron. On the one hand, a part of London would penetrate the building, its atmosphere and through the experience and memory of the piece, the spectator would take their own personal sun outside. Building and city, intervention and pre–existence would thus be altered in this sort of meteorological “accident” provoked by Eliasson. With the Tate Sun as an example of the background, the text here presented seeks to delve into the arguments, concepts and strategies developed by Olafur Eliasson in his interventions in the public sphere, emphasising the relationships and transformations that take place on stage and in the spectator himself as a result of the conceptual and material displacements proposed by the artist

Chemistry: Space resources for teachers including suggestions for classroom activities and laboratory experiments

Curriculum supplement to assist general chemistry teachers in updating instruction materials with aerospace development

Models and Performance of VANET based Emergency Braking

The network research community is working in the field of automotive to provide VANET based safety applications to reduce the number of accidents, deaths, injuries and loss of money. Several approaches are proposed and investigated in VANET literature, but in a completely network-oriented fashion. Most of them do not take into account application requirements and no one considers the dynamics of the vehicles. Moreover, message repropagation schemes are widely proposed without investigating their benefits and using very complicated approaches. This technical report, which is derived from the Master Thesis of Michele Segata, focuses on the Emergency Electronic Brake Lights (EEBL) safety application, meant to send warning messages in the case of an emergency brake, in particular performing a joint analysis of network requirements and provided application level benefits. The EEBL application is integrated within a Collaborative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) which uses network-provided information to automatically brake the car if the driver does not react to the warning. Moreover, an information aggregation scheme is proposed to analyze the benefits of repropagation together with the consequent increase of network load. This protocol is compared to a protocol without repropagation and to a rebroadcast protocol found in the literature (namely the weighted p-persistent rebroadcast). The scenario is a highway stretch in which a platoon of vehicles brake down to a complete stop. Simulations are performed using the NS_3 network simulation in which two mobility models have been embedded. The first one, which is called Intelligent Driver Model (IDM) emulates the behavior of a driver trying to reach a desired speed and braking when approaching vehicles in front. The second one (Minimizing Overall Braking Induced by Lane change (MOBIL)), instead, decides when a vehicle has to change lane in order to perform an overtake or optimize its path. The original simulator has been modified by - introducing real physical limits to naturally reproduce real crashes; - implementing a CACC; - implementing the driver reaction when a warning is received; - implementing different network protocols. The tests are performed in different situations, such as different number of lanes (one to five), different average speeds, different network protocols and different market penetration rates and they show that: - the adoption of this technology considerably decreases car accidents since the overall average maximum deceleration is reduced; - network load depends on application-level details, such as the implementation of the CACC; - VANET safety application can improve safety even with a partial market penetration rate; - message repropagation is important to reduce the risk of accidents when not all vehicles are equipped; - benefits are gained not only by equipped vehicles but also by unequipped ones

Defining And Managing The Historic Urban Landscape: Reflections On The English Experience And Some Stories From Liverpool

The period since the 1960s has been characterised by growing societal concern with urban heritage protection and the development of legislative, fiscal and urban planning instruments that seek to ensure the protection and enhancement of historic buildings and environments. International organisations such as UNESCO and European level documents such as the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) have stressed the cultural and economic value of the ‘wise management of natural and cultural heritage’. Since the 1970s many cities have sought to redefine and regenerate themselves through a revalorisation of their past and the protection and enhancement of their historic urban landscapes. Urban heritage has thus often come to be seen as a component of the territorial capital of places, and often had a symbiotic relationship with the objective of urban regeneration. However, urban heritage is not a static concept and ideas about what constitutes heritage, the value of different historic urban environments, and the contribution they can make to city development and regeneration continue to evolve. This paper reflects on this evolution in the context of the English planning system and illustrates some key trends and issues surrounding urban heritage through a consideration of recent and ongoing heritage related planning episodes in the northern English city of Liverpool

Geometrical premisses in Aristotle’s Incessu animalium and kind-crossing

At some point in the Incessu Animalium, Aristotle appeals to some geometrical claims in order to explain why animal progression necessarily involves the bending (of the limbs), and this appeal to geometrical claims might be taking as violating the recommendation to avoid “kind-crossing” (as found in the Posterior Analytic). But a very unclear notion of kind-crossing has been assumed in most debates. I will argue that kind-crossing in the Posterior Analytics does not mean any employment of premises from a discipline other than that to which the explanandum belongs. Kind-crossing was meant to cover a specific sort of employment of premises from a different discipline, namely, the case in which premises from a discipline X are taken as the most important explanatory factor that delivers the fullest appropriate explanation of an explanandum within discipline Y. If this is so, the employment of geometrical premises in the Incessu Animalium is not an instance of the prohibited kind-crossing, but something that is in line with the theory of the Posterior Analytics