481 research outputs found
Language and cultural awareness of a non-native ESP teacher
Introduction. The relation between culture and language is a central issue in foreign language teaching and research where the need to give cultural content the same value as language content and language skills has been stressed. However, conceptualization of teacher language awareness, by focusing largely on formal aspects of language, largely neglects culture as a component of teacher cognition. This paper expands the category of ESP-teacher language awareness suggesting the inclusion of cultural awareness as a separate component of teacher cognition. This concept extension actualizes ESP teaching in the situation shaped by unprecedented mobility and intercultural contacts. Materials and Methods. The historic-logical method was used to determine shortcomings of pedagogical experience and the need to teach culture in ESP. Grounded theory, as an inductive methodology, was utilized to generate conceptual expansion theoretically tied with research in medical and business communication as well as with data on population movement and international scientific cooperation. Results. We defined ESP-cultural knowledge as a system comprising the permanent (know-that) and temporary (know-of) cultural manifestations in a society as well as how they are manifested through language (know-how). That system practical representation is exemplified in medicine and business English discourse. The study expands the structure of ESP-TLA, claiming the focus on cultural awareness as part of ESP discourse which fosters cultural-response education. Discussion and Conclusion. Such claim is pertinent to practitioners involved in the tourism industry, health care, economics, and academic activities such as research and development. This paper is relevant for teachers of English for Specific purposes in the fields mentioned above as well as for researchers engaged in analyzing the problems and methods of teaching a foreign language. However, because of the multiple manifestations and complexity of student motivation to get ESP course, the paper acknowledges the difficulties in addressing cultural content salient to all students in class, an aspect meriting further research. © 2019 National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University. All rights reserved.This research was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 17-29-09136/18 «Multilingualism in the era of post-literacy: Philosophical and cultural studies and methodological and pedagogical development of a multilingual education model»).Российский Фонд Фундаментальных Исследований (РФФИ): 17-29-09136/1
Sustainable tourism research towards twenty-five years of the journal of sustainable tourism
© 2018 Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research. All Rights Reserved. The Journal of Sustainable Tourism (JOST) is a main journal in 'Geography, Planning and Development'. The concept of sustainable tourism has gained importance over time. This paper presents a general overview of the journal over its lifetime by using bibliometric indicators. Moreover, in order to establish the position of sustainable tourism research, this paper identifies the trends in research through bibliometric studies. It uses the Scopus database to analyse the bibliometric data. This analysis includes key issues such as the publication and citation structure of the journal; the most cited articles; the leading authors, institutions, and countries in the journal; and the keywords that are most often used. This paper also uses the visualization of similarities to graphically map the bibliographic material. This analysis provides further insights into how JOST links to other journals and how it links researchers across the globe. These results indicate that JOST is one of the leading journals in the areas where the journal is indexed, with a wide range of authors from institutions and countries from all over the world publishing in it. The results of the current study can provide insights into topics related to sustainable tourism that can be researched in the future
Dating young open clusters using delta Scuti stars. Results for Trumpler 10 and Praesepe
Aims. The main goal of this work is to date young open clusters using
Sct stars. Seismic indices such as the large separation and the
frequency at maximum power can help to constrain the models to better
characterise the stars. We propose a reliable method to identify some radial
modes, which gives us greater confidence in the constrained models. Methods. We
extract the frequency content of a sample of Sct stars belonging to
the same open cluster. We estimate the low-order large separation by means of
different techniques and the frequency at maximum power for each member of the
sample. We use a grid of models built with the typical parameters of
Sct stars, including mass, metallicity and rotation as independent variables,
and determine the oscillation modes. We select the observed frequencies whose
ratios match those of the models. Once we find a range of radial modes matching
the observed frequencies, mainly the fundamental mode, we add it to the other
seismic parameters to derive the stellar age. Assuming star groups have similar
chemistry and age, we estimate their mean age by computing a weighted
probability density function fit to the age distribution of the seismically
constrained models. Results. We estimate the age of Trumpler 10 to be
Myr, and that of Praesepe to be Myr. In this
latter case, we find two apparent populations of Sct stars in the same
cluster, one at Myr and another at Myr. This may be
due to two different formation events, different rotational velocities of the
members in our sample of stars (as rapid rotation may modify the observed large
separation), or to membership of unresolved binary systems.Comment: 20 pages, 25 figure, uses the open-source code MultiModes (see
https://github.com/davidpamos/MultiModes). It will be published in A&
Unveiling the power spectra of Scuti stars with TESS. The temperature, gravity, and frequency scaling relation
Thanks to high-precision photometric data legacy from space telescopes like
CoRoT and Kepler, the scientific community could detect and characterize the
power spectra of hundreds of thousands of stars. Using the scaling relations,
it is possible to estimate masses and radii for solar-type pulsators. However,
these stars are not the only kind of stellar objects that follow these rules:
Scuti stars seem to be characterized with seismic indexes such as the
large separation (). Thanks to long-duration high-cadence TESS light
curves, we analysed more than two thousand of this kind of classical pulsators.
In that way, we propose the frequency at maximum power () as a
proper seismic index since it is directly related with the intrinsic
temperature, mass and radius of the star. This parameter seems not to be
affected by rotation, inclination, extinction or resonances, with the exception
of the evolution of the stellar parameters. Furthermore, we can constrain
rotation and inclination using the departure of temperature produced by the
gravity-darkening effect. This is especially feasible for fast rotators as most
of Scuti stars seem to be.Comment: 12 pages, 13 figures, accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysic
Language and Cultural Awareness of a Non-Native ESP Teacher
Introduction. The relation between culture and language is a central issue in foreign language teaching and research where the need to give cultural content the same value as language content and language skills has been stressed. However, conceptualization of teacher language awareness, by focusing largely on formal aspects of language, largely neglects culture as a component of teacher cognition. This paper expands the category of ESP-teacher language awareness suggesting the inclusion of cultural awareness as a separate component of teacher cognition. This concept extension actualizes ESP teaching in the situation shaped by unprecedented mobility and intercultural contacts.
Materials and Methods. The historic-logical method was used to determine shortcomings of pedagogical experience and the need to teach culture in ESP. Grounded theory, as an inductive methodology, was utilized to generate conceptual expansion theoretically tied with research in medical and business communication as well as with data on population movement and international s cientific cooperation.
Results. We defined ESP-cultural knowledge as a system comprising the permanent (know-that) and temporary (know-of) cultural manifestations in a society as well as how they are manifested through language (know-how). That system practical representation is exemplified in medicine and business English discourse. The study expands the structure of ESP-TLA, claiming the focus on cultural awareness as part of ESP discourse which fosters cultural-response education.
Discussion and Conclusion. Such claim is pertinent to practitioners involved in the tourism industry, health care, economics, and academic activities such as research and development. This paper is relevant for teachers of English for Specific purposes in the fields mention ed above as well as for researchers engaged in analyzing the problems and methods of teaching a foreign language. However, because of the multiple manifestations and complexity of student motivation to get ESP course, the paper acknowledges the difficulties in addressing cultural content salient to all student s in class, an aspect meriting further research
The PL diagram for Sct stars: back in business as distance estimators
In this work, we focus on the period-luminosity relation (PLR) of
Sct stars, in which mode excitation and selection mechanisms are still poorly
constrained, and whose structure and oscillations are affected by rotation. We
review the PLRs in the recent literature, and add a new inference from a large
sample of Sct. We highlight the difficulty in identifying the
fundamental mode and show that rotation-induced surface effects can impact the
measured luminosities, explaining the broadening of the PLR. We derive a tight
relation between the low-order large separation and the fundamental radial mode
frequency (F0) that holds for rotating stars, thus paving the way towards mode
identification. We show that the PLRs we obtain for different samples are
compatible with each other and with the recent literature, and with most
observed Sct stars when taking rotation effects into account. We also
find that the highest-amplitude peak in the frequency spectrum corresponds to
the fundamental mode in most Sct, thus shedding some light on their
elusive mode selection mechanism.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, IAU conference proceedin
Prediction of Reverse Remodeling at Cardiac MR Imaging Soon after First ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Results of a Large Prospective Registry
[EN] Conclusion: Assessment of infarct size and MVO with cardiac MR imaging soon after STEMI enables one to make a decision in the prediction of reverse remodeling. (C) RSNA, 2015Supported by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III and FEDER (grant PI1400271) and the Generalitat Valenciana (grant PROMETEO/2013/007).Bodi, V.; Monmeneu, J.; Ortiz-Perez, J.; López-Lereu, M.; Bonanad, C.; Husser, O.; Minana, G.... (2016). Prediction of Reverse Remodeling at Cardiac MR Imaging Soon after First ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Results of a Large Prospective Registry. Radiology. 278(1):54-63. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2015142674S5463278
Molecular features in a biphenotypic small cell sarcoma with neuroectodermal and muscle differentiation
We report a case of a 13-year-old girl with soft tissue sarcoma of the hand,
which showed muscle and neuroectodermal immunophenotypes. Molecular studies were
performed on RNA collected from fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology and
peripheral blood samples by nested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain
reaction (RT-PCR) and Southern blot analysis. This biphenotypic tumor showed
simultaneous expression of EWS-FLI1 and PAX3-FKHR transcripts, specific of Ewing
family tumors and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, respectively. Although childhood
sarcomas with simultaneous muscle and neural differentiation have been described
to have EWS-FLI1 transcripts, there are no reports of tumors with both
transcripts. Cytological specimens are a good source of RNA for molecular
studie
Atención de la salud en niños de muy bajo peso al nacer en Montevideo,Uruguay: comparación entre los sectores publico y privado
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