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ADVANCING VOCABULARY ACQUISITION THROUGH MORPHOLOGICAL INSTRUCTION: EVIDENC E FROM DUTCH EFL LEARNERS
No full textThis study investigates the effects of explicit instruction in derivationa l morphology on English vocabulary acquisition among Dutch high school students. Forty two learners participated in a pre test/post test intervention comparing two approaches: Focus on Forms (FoFs), emphasizing systematic teaching of ffixes, and Focus on F orm (FoF), embedding affixes in communicative contexts. Mixed factor ANOVA analyses revealed no significant overall effects of instructional type or time, though task type significantly influenced outcomes. Students consistently performed worse on derivati on tasks than on decomposition or sentence completion, with prefixes posing greater challenges than suffixes. These findings highlight the cognitive complexity of productive morphological tasks and the need for more targeted, sustained instruction. The study underscores that while explicit morphological teaching may not yield immediate gains across all tasks, it illuminates task and affix specific difficulties that must be addressed in vocabulary pedagogy
Traveller engagement with aircraft flight tracker applications
No full textIn exploring flight trackers through a mobility lens, this study is situated at the nexus of the movements of people and objects, near real-time location-based navigational technologies, cartographic and mobile digital applications, and flows of information. Flight tracking applications (apps), allow users to see where aircraft are at any given moment from digital devices such as smartphones, yet little is known about their use, a gap which this paper starts to fill. This qualitative survey provides new insights into people’s actual day-to-day use of flight trackers. Within the context of critical mobilities and the right to information and movement, findings indicate (un)equal access to, and use of, flight trackers. Implications for the travel industry, particularly airports and airlines, include effectively integrating flight tracker and other information, through the digitalised and co-ordinated development of a seamless door-to-door journey, to enhance the experience for all travellers
The relationship between intermediary actors in the aquaculture supply chain at Tam Giang Lagoon, Central Vietnam
No full textAquaculture\u27s profitability depends on a whole linkage chain involving all stages of producing, distributing and commercializing the product to reach final consumption. The efficiency of a supply chain is affected by the types of relationships among actors. Thisstudy aims to explore the nature of intermediary actors’ relationship in the aquaculture supply chain and the determinants of this relationship. Tam Giang Lagoon, Thua Thien Hue province, Central Vietnam, was selected as a case study. Fifty-five semi-structuredinterviews were conducted to collect primary information, while secondary information was collected from statistical data. The relationship between collectors and their buyer group plays a vital role in the product flow, and each collector has one wholesaler andretailer group. Their long-term business relationship is based on trust and informal transactions. Fair commercial treatment and willingness to lend without interest have created a binding relationship
Rural areas are more resilient than urban areas to the COVID-19 pandemic. Is it true? (Lessons from Indonesia)
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic affected the world’s life systems and food security. To deal with the food crisis, the Indonesian government has provided directives to maintain the availability of food supply chains in areas that are regional and national food sources.Restrictions on activities not directly related to the food chain indirectly affect the region’s food security sustainability. The purpose of this study is to analyse the effect of the level of regional food security on the conditions of the COVID-19 incident in Bogor Regency. The methodology used was quantitative at the level of food security figures and cases at the village level using Geographically Weighted Regression spatial analysis. The data used are food security indicators and the incidence of COVID-19 at the village level. The research findings show that urban areas with high food security tend to increase cases of COVID-19, but rural areas with high food security tend to be able to reduce them
Effects of motivation and infrastructure on MSME (Micro Small Medium Enterprise) performance in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted MSMEs; most of them stopped due to difficulties in producing and obtaining raw materials because of the rigorous health protocol policy; only a small amount can still survive. The smoked fish home industry is oneof them. The main problem is constrained by facilities and resources as well as the motivation to keep their spirit during the pandemic Covid 19. This study aims to determine the effect of motivation, facilities and human resources on the performance of this homeindustry using SEM analysis. The results of this study showed that the performance of MSMEs was influenced by skill and facilities (not motivation). Skill and facilities significantly impact performance (income, turnover, and productivity), while the motivation was only for their family and themselves to survive in the covid era
De la ororism la compasiune: re-figurând chipul de Medusă al alterităţii, în dialog cu Adriana Cavarero şi Bracha Ettinger: Translated by Raluca Bibiri
No full textÎn registrul voluminos al violenţelor umane, se regăseşte un anume tip de atrocitate ale cărei caracteristici îmi propun să le însumez în categoria ororismului. Această calchiere, dincolo de evidenta asonanţă cu cuvântul „terorism”, urmăreşte să accentueze caracterul cu totul respingător al atât de multor scene de violenţă contemporană, care le situează mai curând în sfera ororilor decât în cea a terorii. (Adriana Cavarero, Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence 29
Foreword
No full textImages – an academic publication conceived and edited by the Center of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI), University of Bucharest – has established itself as a forum for intellectual debate in the field of cultural and visual studies. One of its major aims is to provide a platform for the development of both theoretical reflection and in-depth analysis of recent phenomena, with an eye to their impact on local cultural practices
Georges Didi-Huberman : Une sensibilité deleuzienne
No full textWe try here to understand the relationship between the work on images performed by Georges Didi-Huberman, art historian and philosopher, and the thought of Gilles Deleuze. Everything seems to oppose these two thinkers, from the question of dialectic to the place devoted to psychoanalysis. The connection between them, however, is deeper than it appears at a cursory glance: let us take a look at the importance given to the concept of problem against any idea of evidence, or to the relation between feelings andideas as related to the question of intensities. Epistemologically, but also from the perspective of a theory of images, it is perhaps the claim of a superior empiricism that best captures the unity of the two approaches: a way of always starting from visual singularities in order to gain access to something like a sensible idea that can be experienced only through them, while still not merging withthem. The question of poetics is becoming essential here because the distortions produced in the visuality make sense for the art historical discourse on images only if they are translated into the order of language
A public conversation held at University College London\u27s Institute of Advanced Studies, on 3rd May 2016
No full textA public conversation held at University College London\u27s Institute of Advanced Studies, on 3rd May 201
Reflections on Fidelity and Feminism: A Feminist Space at Leeds Past and to Come
No full textI started teaching at Leeds in September 1977, forty years and some months before a symposium was held at the University of Leeds titled Looking Back to Look Forward A Feminist Space at Leeds. The title introduces us to a politics of memory as a means to foster a politics of the future. Yet the location of this event both engendered profound personal meaning for me looking back at a feminist career of forty years and incited hope and anguish in equal measure. Hope is inspired by the extraordinary women and men who have been part of this feminist space at Leeds and the current group specifically who organized this event. Anguish is shared with many artists and thinkers world wide as we survey our ruined present like a collective Angel of History being driven backwards into a future we cannot see, but whose current lineaments seem so hostile to thought, critique, feminism, and the humanities in general