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Prior Experience and Student Satisfaction with E-Tandem Language Learning of Spanish and English

2018

Recent literature in the field of foreign language learning has indicated that classroom learning is not necessarily enough for students to acquire proficiency in a foreign language. Learners who achieve a high level in the target language often combine work in the classroom with activities outside it. At the same time, a number of studies indicate that, when foreign language learners do work with their target language beyond the classroom, it is often to practice the receptive skills of reading and listening as opposed to the productive ones of speaking and writing. For this reason, students at The College of New Jersey in the United States and Universidad de Alcalá in Spain were paired up…

Social Networks, Communication and the Internet

2015

The internet has changed our lives within just a few decades: we watch TV, pay our bills and fill in our tax forms, book appointments and hotel rooms, look for recipes, communicate, form networks and share our everyday lives on the internet. It would actually be easier to list what we cannot do on the internet rather than list what we do or could do on it. For example, sociologist Christine Hine (2015) has noted that the internet is embedded in our daily lives, cultures, social interactions and economies to the extent that it should no longer be considered a curiosity. The call for papers in Ethnologia Fennica 2015, volume 42, asked writers to discuss how internetrelated communication and so…

Connecting others: Does a tertius iungens orientation shape the relationship between research networks and innovation?

2021

Research on social networks and innovation emphasizes that individuals spanning structural holes and crossing institutional boundaries have more opportunities for knowledge recombination and innovation involvement. However, transforming the potential knowledge and resources available through personal networks to attain innovation can be difficult for the focal individual. Using an ego-network approach, this study examines whether and to what extent an individual strategic orientation to cooperation (i.e. tertius iungens) contributes to strengthening the relation between two personal network properties (structural and institutional separation) and involvement in innovation. Our analysis is c…

El jurista, colaborador necesario en la traducción jurídica. Reflexiones sobre su intervención en el proceso de traducción

2020

espanolEn este articulo presentamos los resultados de un proyecto colaborativo entre juristas y alumnos de traduccion de la Universitat de Valencia. De los resultados se desprende que el especialista, que interviene desde el inicio del proceso traductor, juega un papel destacado en la fase de comprension. La consulta al experto no solo se limita a cuestiones terminologicas, sino tambien a la comprension del genero textual, los destinatarios y la finalidad de los textos. La intervencion en la fase de traduccion es mas anecdotica, cobrando especial protagonismo en la fase de revision de las traducciones finales. El proyecto contribuyo a reforzar la autoeficacia de los alumnos, entendida como …

Health Promotion Interventions in Sports Clubs: Can We Talk About a Setting-Based Approach? A Systematic Mapping Review

2019

Many researchers and authorities have recognized the important role that sports clubs can play in public health. In spite of attempts to create a theoretical framework in the early 2000s, a thorough understanding of sports clubs as a setting for health promotion (HP) is lacking. Despite calls for more effective, sustainable, and theoretically grounded interventions, previous literature reviews have identified no controlled studies assessing HP interventions in sports clubs. This systematic mapping review details how the settings-based approach is applied through HP interventions in sports clubs and highlights facilitators and barriers for sports clubs to become health-promoting settings. In…

Laboratorium udręki wzajemnego bytowania na podstawie "Matki" Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza

2016

The topie of my article is solitude of the titled mother in the drama of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. The play was organized in Cracow’s The National Old Theatre by a magnificent and, unfortunately, deceased artist - Jerzy Jarocki. It is rare to experience such a piece of art where all human feelings are, in a radical way, mocked and rotten. Witkacy overemphasizes a motif of a widów mother - used by their children. It helped him in reaching a comic effect and ridiculing his characters. The Mother is an unpleasant play. In a fiction layer it shaped in a form of a parody of a psychological family drama, kept in poetics grotesąue poetics. Witkacy, obsessed with exposing the lowest human instin…

Equilibrium and studies on sorption of heavy metals from solutions by algae

2013

Use of peat-based sorbents for removal of arsenic compounds

2013

Abstract It is important to apply sorbent materials for purification of water from arsenic contamination due to serious arsenic pollution worldwide. We have developed new sorbents based on natural materials that provide a cheap and environmentally friendly alternative. For the first time, peat modified with iron compounds and iron humates were tested for sorption of arsenic compounds. The highest sorption capacity was found in peat modified with iron compounds. We have found that sorption of different arsenic speciation forms was strongly dependent on solution pH, reaction time and temperature. Calculations of the sorption process using thermodynamic parameters indicate the spontaneity of s…

Removal of ammonium ions from aqueous solutions using alkali-activated analcime as sorbent

2023

Five alkali-activated analcime (ANA) sorbents (ANA-MK 1, ANA 2, ANA 3, ANA-MK 4, and ANA-MK 5) were developed for ammonium (NH4+) ion removal. Acid treatment and calcination were used as pre-treatments for analcime, and metakaolin (MK) was used as a blending agent in three sorbents. Sorption experiments were performed to evaluate the effects of sorbent dosage (1–20 g L−1), initial NH4+ ion concentration (5–1000 g L−1), and contact time (1 min–24 h). ANA-MK 1, ANA 2, and ANA-MK 4 were the most efficient sorbents for NH4+ ion removal, with a maximum experimental sorption uptake of 29.79, 26.00, and 22.24 mg g−1, respectively. ANA 3 and ANA-MK 5 demonstrated…

Non-abusing mothers’ formal support needs after child sexual abuse disclosure : the case of North Cyprus

2023

This article investigates the formal support needs of mothers whose child has been sexually abused. Previous research has focused mostly on the provision of support for abused children to the relative neglect of mothers’ support needs. Here, formal support refers to resources and services from organisations, professionals and authorities, with a specific focus on social welfare services. This article is based on a thematic analysis of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 15 non-abusing mothers in North Cyprus. Analysis of the mothers’ experiences revealed needs of support in four important domains: financial support; child day-care services and social facilities for children and adults…