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The value of a network in the digital era: insights about Doctor Chat case study
2017
Networks are ubiquitous in our lives in their social, physical, and digital forms. A growing number of firms today rely entirely on networking and lack a physical location or material infrastructure; they are, so to speak, 'liquid'. Through a theoretical analysis and its application to the case of Doctor Chat mobile app, this paper aims to analyse the fundamental laws of networks and to answer the following questions: 1) are the traditional methods to estimate the network value still valid in the current digital age and in particular for mobile applications?; 2) how do the laws of networks work when networks expand? We conclude with some suggestions for a research agenda in order to inspire…
The value of academics’ research-related online writing
2020
Research productivity indicators tend to ignore online and social media writing of academics, nevertheless, many academics for instance tweet and blog. It thus seems that there is additional value for writing in these genres. This study sets out to explore what roles writing in these hybrid online genres plays in relation to academics’ research activities. Drawing on in-depth research interviews with 29 academics with various L1s from three different disciplines, the study focuses on the participants’ perceptions of tweeting and blogging, and how they value writing in these genres in relation to core research-writing genres in their fields. Besides some differences in the evaluations betwee…
The verb semblar in old Catalan
2017
En català actual, els verbs semblar i parèixer són dos verbs quasi sinònims distribuïts territorialment de forma desigual: mentre que el verb parèixer perviu al País Valencià, a les Illes Balears i al català nord-occidental, el verb semblar, a més de conviure amb parèixer als territoris anteriors, ha esdevingut hegemònic al centre-nord del domini lingüístic. Aquesta distribució no és, però, la que trobem en la llengua antiga, en la qual semblar és un verb relativament poc freqüent si el comparem amb parèixer i, a més, la major part dels exemples els constatem en un grup reduït d’obres (especialment dels ss. XIII i XIV). En aquest article volem descriure els usos sintàctics i signifi cats de…
Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference “Onomastic Investigations” (Rīga, May 10-12, 2018)
2020
Zinātnisko rakstu krājumā „Onomastikas pētījumi II / Onomastic Investigations II” apkopoti Latvijas, Lietuvas, Amerikas, Baltkrievijas, Jaunzēlandes, Krievijas, Polijas, Spānijas, Ungārijas un Vācijas pētījumi par īpašvārdiem. Vairāk nekā 20 rakstos stāstīts par to, kā un kāpēc Latvijā maina personvārdus, kā personvārdi atstāj pēdas vietvārdos, ko vietvārdos esam aizguvuši no lībiešiem, kā vietas nosaukums var glābt no iznīcības, kā vietvārdus ietekmē karš, kādi tie bija 17. gadsimtā un ko nozīmē vietvārdos sastopamais „sāmal-” un „sāman-”, kā nosaukumus veido Latvijas uzņēmumi. Arī par to, kā Jaunzēlandē iedala vietvārdus pēc to struktūras, ko Vācijā domā par Romas vārda izcelsmi, par viet…
What does it mean to be visually literate? Examination of visual literacy definitions in a context of higher education
2018
Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Get access Abstract Competency in visual literacy (VL) is crucial for effective visual communication, and thus for living and working in a visually saturated environment. However, VL across disciplines is still marginalized in higher education curricula. This tendency is partly caused by the lack of knowledge and agreement on what it means to be visually literate. This study juxtaposes and evaluates 11 VL definitions, selected as the most relevant for higher education practitioners and coined from 1969 (the first one) to 2013 (the most recent one). The study further proposes three lists of VL skills with themati…
Does the Visual Attention Span Play a Role in Reading in Arabic?
2018
It is unclear whether the association between the visual attention (VA) span and reading differs across languages. Here we studied this relationship in Arabic, where the use of specific reading strategies depends on the amount of diacritics on words: reading vowelized and nonvowelized Arabic scripts favor sublexical and lexical strategies, respectively. We hypothesized that the size of the VA span and its association to reading would differ depending on individual �script preferences.� We compared children who were more proficient in reading fully vowelized Arabic than nonvowelized Arabic (VOW) to children for whom the opposite was true (NOVOW). NOVOW children showed a crowding effect in th…
Vocabulary Gains of Mono- and Multilingual Learners in a Linguistically Diverse Setting: Results From a German-English Intervention With Inclusion of…
2018
Today, group settings (e.g., in kindergarten) are more linguistically-diverse than ever. However, concepts in language acquisition only rarely include this fact. This paper reports on the effects of a language intervention which is based on a concept specifically designed for linguistically-diverse settings („PROgramme for BI- and MUltilingual Children“; Festman and Rinker, 2014). The implementation of the programme and its outcomes are described with the example of a German-English-immersion kindergarten, which was in fact plurilingual. We aimed at supporting children’s acquisition of the two languages in parallel with inclusion of their home languages. Overall, 52 (mono-, bi-, and triling…
Rigasches Wörterbuch
1913
Vorwort: "Der Zweck diese Büchleins ist, Rigasche Zustände und Rigasche Volksart in der Zeit um das Jahr 1869 und die Volkssprache, welche damals besonders am Dünaufer gebräuchlich war, frölich der volkommenen Vergessenheit einstweilen zu entziehen."
Filoloģijas zinātņu doktors Valdis Bisenieks: biobibliogrāfiskais rādītājs
1989
Biobibliogrāfiskajā rādītājā ietverti filoloģijas zinātņu doktora V. Bisenieka publicētie darbi no 1958.gada līdz 1988.gadam (daļēji), kā arī uzrādīta literatūra par viņu.
Accessibility of the Italian institutional web pages: a survey on the compliance of the Italian public administration web pages to the Stanca Act and…
2014
Accessibility of the Italian public administration web pages is ruled by the Stanca Act and in particular the Decree of the Minister issued on July 8, 2005. In this paper, an objective test is performed on the official web pages of the Italian province and region chief towns to check their compliance to the 22 technical requirements defined by the Stanca Act. A sample of 976 web pages belonging to the websites of the Italian chief towns have been downloaded in the period October---December 2012. Such a data collection has been submitted to Achecker, the worldwide recognized syntax and accessibility validation service. Several accessibility and syntax errors have been found following the aut…