Special issue of International Journal of Human Resource Management. A contextualized approach to Talent Management: Advancing the field

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A note on graded hypersurface singularities

For a weighted quasihomogeneous two dimensional hypersurface singularity, we define a smoothing with unipotent monodromy and an isolated graded normal singularity. We study the natural weighted blow up of both the smoothing and the surface. In particular, we describe our construction for the quasihomogeneous singularities of type I, the 14 unimodal exceptional singularities and we relate it to their stable replacement.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures. New section on stable replacement of Unimodal singularities, Several improvements and corrections. Comments welcom

La perspectiva intercultural en los libros para la enseñanza de lenguas modernas.Un enfoque histórico

This paper analyses the pedagogical and practical approaches to the teaching of culture which were used in a range of popular French, Spanish, Italian and German grammars and text-books published in the XIX century in Europe and America. Series such as Ollendorff´s and Hossfeld´s show an understanding of cultural differences associated to the language of study as well as a practical consideration towards their students´needs which are reflected in the selection of linguistic material as well as in the creation of strategies for language and cultural learning