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Adventures of Clinical Psychology

2021

Clinical psychology strives to fully grasp the person in his totality and in his individuality, helping him adequately address his own deep internal suffering and discomfort, social uneasiness, and harmonize his own needs, desires and, attachments [...]

Aspectos pragmático-lingüísticos del discurso del turismo de aventura: estudio de un caso: estudio de un caso

2014

El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una visión general del discurso turístico con respecto a sus principales características pragmático-lingüísticas y contrastarlo con un subsegmento turístico concreto. En este caso, nos aproximaremos al turismo de aventura, un tipo de turismo que está creciendo exponencialmente en los últimos años y que, por tanto, está ganando importancia en el sector turístico en España. Para ello, analizaremos un corpus de textos promocionales sobre este tipo de turismo a fin de ejemplificar dichas características e ilustrar a los traductores profesionales acerca de las posibles dificultades que puedan encontrar durante la traducción de este tipo de textos al español…

Molecular biology, China and the West

2000

More than 15 years ago, in November 1985, I travelled to China for the first time. I joined a symposium on developmental biology in the Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology (CBI), organised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Max‐Planck‐Gesellschaft in Germany. The symposium was meant to provide perspectives for the future of the Max Planck Guest Laboratory, just founded in the CBI. When I attended, I did not anticipate that my visit to Shanghai would initiate a long‐term commitment to China. I did not even expect to return to China in the near future. But early in 1987, my colleague Uli Schwarz from the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology in Tubingen, who was and still is in…

2018

Currently, there are various definitions for extreme sports and researchers in the field have been unable to advance a consensus on what exactly constitutes an 'extreme' sport. Traditional theory-led explanations, such as edgeworks, sensation seeking and psychoanalysis, have led to inadequate conceptions. These frameworks have failed to capture the depth and nuances of experiences of individuals who refute the notions of risk-taking, adrenaline- and thrill-seeking or death-defiance. Instead, participants are reported to describe experiences as positive, deeply meaningful and life-enhancing. The constant evolution of emerging participation styles and philosophies, expressed within and across…

A prequel to Nollywood: South African photo novels and their pan-African consumption in the late 1960s

2010

This article interrogates the history of the photo novel in Africa with particular reference to African Film, a magazine of almost pan-African circulation, published between 1968 and 1972 in South Africa. Featuring the adventures of Lance Spearman, an African crime fighter, the magazine was read widely across Anglophone Africa, from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. After a brief introduction to the history of the photo novel, the author discusses the production, content, reception, and legacy of the Lance Spearman photo novels. It is argued that Lance Spearman may be understood as a crossover of James Bond and Philip Marlowe, and several influences from…

Mašīnmācīšanās uzdevumu risināšanai interaktīvās tekstuālās vidēs

2021

Interaktīvas tekstuālas piedzīvojumu spēles var izmantot, lai pārbaudītu mašīnmācīšanās aģentu spējas tikt galā ar dažādiem izaicinājumiem, kas saistīti ar dabiskās valodas izpratni, problēmu risināšanu un atbilžu meklēšanu, vai tādas darbības izvēles stratēģiju apgūšana, kas vispārinās uz iepriekš nesastaptām vidēm. TextWorld platforma ir šādiem pētījumiem domāts ietvars un palīgrīki, ar kuru palīdzību var darbināt daudzas iepriekšpublicētas teksta piedzīvojumu spēles, vai arī definēt un ģenerēt jaunas spēles, dažādās sarežģītības pakāpēs un gandrīz bezgalīgās variācijās. Šajā darbā aprakstīta tāda algoritmiska orākula (oracle) ieviešana, kas var veiksmīgi atrisināt spēles no 3 dažādām iep…

Manna Springing from the Earth

2012

At one of my aunt’s, there was an illustrated children’s edition of the Bible. I was six or seven years old, and on Saturday afternoons she would often take care of me. It was a fortunate deal everybody gained from. My parents were free to do the shopping and get some fresh air. My aunt enjoyed stuffing me with biscuits and milk, but not as much as I enjoyed the adventures of the Bible lands: Yahweh furiously unleashing plagues on the Pharaoh, the miraculous escape from Egypt, with the Red Sea saving the tribes, in extremis, from Ramses’ troops; the great king on his knees, watching the bodies of his drowned soldiers, wondering why God might favor a bunch of goat keepers; Moses wandering th…

Group-level analysis on multiplayer game collaboration: how do the individuals shape the group interaction?

2010

In this study, the aim was to examine how small-group collaboration is shaped by individuals interacting in a virtual multiplayer game. The data were collected from a design experiment in which six randomly divided groups of four university students played a voice-enhanced game lasting about 1 h. The ‘eScape’ game was a social action adventure developed as a part of the study. In the analysis of the video data, students' discourse functions during the game were analysed with content analytic methods for studying the nature of their interaction. An effort was made to analyse the data on both group and individual levels, and therefore the participants' prior social ties and experience in gami…

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: METAPHORS AND RELATED CONCEPTS

1998

In past research there has been continuous controversy over the definition of entrepreneurship and the identification of entrepreneurs. By combining the ideas of entrepreneurship and linguistics, this paper takes a different approach to examining entrepreneurial definitions. An exploratory analysis of entrepreneurial metaphors and concepts is conducted to study informants' perceptions of these two terms. The sample consists of 751 respondents from Scandinavia, Ireland, Australia and Canada. In the quantitative analysis of entrepreneurial concepts, respondents defined the terms 'entrepreneur' and 'entrepreneurship' with suggested conceptual equivalents. In the metaphor analysis, informants …

Evaluation of payment for ecosystem services in Mediterraneanforest: An empirical survey

2016

Abstract The relationship between humans and the forest has always been an important element, sometimes characterizing in the history of man himself. During the last years, the socio-economic context is profoundly changed, diversifying economic services provided by the forest. In the past, in fact, the primary function of the forest was the firewood production, while nowadays it grants several socio-economic benefits such as climate change mitigation, soil protection, protection and conservation of biodiversity, landscaping and recreational value. So, in recent decades a new type of socio-economic interest was developed in order to create a market of goods and services for the forests, call…