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Two languages in the air: a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers’ reflections on their flexible bilingual practices
2020
This book article was originally published as a special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. doi:10.1080/13670050.2016.1184615 Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic settings, in Finland (Finnish-Swedish and Russian-Finnish contexts), and Israel (an Arabic-Hebrew context) and interviewed the teachers about their use of languages in the classroom. We fou…
Aproximación al régimen jurídico del contrato de usuario con Twitch: Repercusiones en materia de protección de datos personales
2022
Twitch es una plataforma dedicada en sus orígenes al mundo del gaming y, que, en la actualidad reúne a millones de personas delante de sus pantallas viendo en directo a sus streamers favoritos. Debido a su imparable crecimiento, resulta necesario conocer los aspectos jurídicos, desde una óptica civil, del proceso de registro en la red social, analizando por ello, los principales aspectos de los términos y condiciones y, como no, de la política de privacidad de la compañía.
Con otro acento. El spanglish visto desde esta orilla
2016
Este libro colectivo proyecta una mirada distinta, abierta y crítica sobre las actitudes lingüísticas de una sociedad heterogénea y multicultural que vive en los Estados Unidos, los hispanounidenses. Un rasgo lingüístico, utilizado por buena parte de estos latinos, es el cambio de código, que se considera entre los aspectos más característicos del llamado popularmente spanglish. Cada uno de los trabajos recogidos en este volumen aporta un enfoque diferente y un tratamiento diferenciado del tema, configurando así una investigación polifónica sobre el spanglish. Es una obra fruto de la naturaleza polimórfica y poliédrica del tema en la que las varias voces se encuentran, se enlazan, se oponen…
Observaciones sobre la sintaxis del espanglish
2018
Se abordan en este trabajo cuestiones relacionadas con las características sintácticas más destacables del espanglish FFI2017-84951-P This paper addresses issues related to the most salient syntactic features of Spanglish
Peculiaridades del espanglish
2020
Se aborda en este trabajo el estudio del espanglish como fenómemo de mediación interlingüística con caracterís6cas «especiales». Para ello se presentan y valoran sus peculiaridades sintácticas y pragmáticas FFI2017–84951–P
Handy Manny, or the Pragmatics in the Interaction of Cartoon Characters
2012
This article presents the results obtained from the analysis of 20 episodes of the series with the intention of critically assessing the impact that it may have on teaching and learning English as a foreign language in a context where Spanish is the main language (L1). Handy Manny, similar to other series that follow this same format (e.g. Dora the explorer, Go Diego go) is broadcast predominantly in L1 (English in the U.S., and Spanish in Spain) with occasional inclusion of some expressions in L2. The terms from L2 are either single words or more complex lexical units naturally used by the fictional characters in the series. The purpose of this article is to explore when and how L2 is intr…
Temporal Control of Pulses from a High-Repetition-Rate Tunable Ti:Sapphire Laser by Active Q-switching
2003
We investigated the lasing characteristics of a Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a pulsed high-repetition-rate Nd:YAG laser. The pump laser has a pulsewidth of 450 ns, while the Ti:sapphire laser shows a significantly shorter pulse width of 25 ns for suitably intense pumping. The energy conversion efficiency of the laser is more than 10%. To synchronize different lasers and to avoid multiple spiking during one pump pulse, we use a Brewster-cut Pockels cell in the resonator for Q-switching. The temporal profile and conversion efficiency are determined and compared to theoretical estimates.
Muscle cross-sectional area, force production and relaxation characteristics in women at different ages
1991
Thirty women, divided among three different age groups, i.e. 30 years (range 26–35;n = 10), 50 years (range 46–55;n = 10) and 70 years (range 66–75;n = 10) volunteered as subjects for examination of the characteristics of the muscle cross-sectional area (CSA), maximal voluntary isometric force, isometric force-time and relaxation-time of their leg extensor muscles. The CSA of the quadriceps femoris muscle in the youngest age group was slightly larger (NS) than in the middle-aged group and much larger (P<0.41) than in the oldest age group whose CSA was markedly smaller (P<0.01) than the middle-aged group. Maximal force in the youngest group was slightly greater (NS) than in the middle-aged g…
Switching from omalizumab to mepolizumab: real-life experience from Southern Italy.
2020
Background: Current availability of several biologic treatments for severe asthma makes it possible to choose the most appropriate for each patient. Sometimes a good percentage of patients with severe asthma may be eligible for biologics that target either the allergic phenotype or the eosinophilic one, but not all respond to that selected as first choice. The aim of our real-life study was to assess whether, for patients with severe eosinophilic allergic asthma, not previously controlled by the anti-IgE omalizumab, the shift to another biologic targeting interleukin-5, such as mepolizumab, may represent a good therapeutic choice. Methods: A total of 41 consecutive patients with severe, per…
The relative contribution to the plantar-flexor torque of the soleus motor units activated by the H reflex and M response in humans.
2000
Abstract This study proposes a method of quantifying the relative contribution to the plantar-flexor torque of soleus H and M responses evoked by tibial nerve stimulation. For ten subjects, the amplitude of the twitch produced by the H wave was plotted against the corresponding potential, for stimuli producing H without M (i.e. in the ascending portion of the H-recruitment curve). It was then assumed that the contribution of H to twitches produced by M plus H was similar for similar H waves on the curve-descending portion. Hence, the contribution of M was estimated, for the range of M waves including those accompanying H max . The estimated mechanical contributions of H and M wave increase …