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Chapeau! First-Year French
No full textChapeau! is a first-year college text. Although it may appear/ at first glance/ to move very fast and introduce a large amount of material early/ the vocabulary and grammatical structures that we expect students to control actively by the end of the year are limited in accord with our notion of a reasonable application of the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. As a result/ while some instructors may be surprised at such things as the absence of the possessive pronoun/ no insistence on the use of optional subjunctives/ and no active treatment of the relative dont/ others may be disturbed by what we still include in a first-year text. What we do expect students to acquire (which is quantitatively less than what we present in the text for them to know about)/ we believe they will acquire well/ providing a sound basis for further study (formal or informal) and permitting us to say to them/ both during and at the end of the course/ Chapeau!https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1518/thumbnail.jp
Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order
No full textThe Technical Project Management class is designed to help students build on their past experiences and develop effective strategies for managing complex technical projects/ with an emphasis on applying project management concepts to real-world problems. In the weekly web conferences/ the class comes together in community to discuss the lesson topics/ considering the practical applications of the concepts in each subject area.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1541/thumbnail.jp
Desafíos De La Formación Ciudadana En La Era Digital: Estadodelarte
No full textEsta publicación es posible gracias al proyecto “Fortaleciendo la Democracia a través del Ciudadanía Digital en Chile y México”/ desarollado por La Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile y el Instituto Belisario Domínguez del Senado de México/ y financiado por el Fondo Conjunto de Cooperación México–Chile (convocatoria 2015). Dicho fondo es administrado por la Agencia de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo de Chile (AGCID) y la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID).https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1563/thumbnail.jp
A grammar of Pite Saami
No full textPite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland. This grammar is the first extensive book-length treatment of a Saami language written in English. While focusing on the morphophonology of the main word classes nouns/ adjectives and verbs/ it also deals with other linguistic structures such as prosody/ phonology/ phrase types and clauses. Furthermore/ it provides an introduction to the language and its speakers/ and an outline of a preliminary Pite Saami orthography. An extensive annotated spoken-language corpus collected over the course of five years forms the empirical foundation for this description/ and each example includes a specific reference to the corpus in order to facilitate verification of claims made on the data. Descriptions are presented for a general linguistics audience and without attempting to support a specific theoretical approach/ but this book should be equally useful for scholars of Uralic linguistics/ typologists/ and even learners of Pite Saami.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1572/thumbnail.jp
A grammar of Komnzo
No full textKomnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family/ which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12 hours recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. Komnzo provides many fields of future research/ but the most interesting aspect of its structure lies in the verb morphology/ to which the two largest chapters of the grammar are dedicated. Komnzo verbs may index up to two arguments showing agreement in person/ number and gender. Verbs encode 18 TAM categories/ valency/ directionality and deictic status. Morphological complexity lies not only in the amount of categories that verbs may express/ but also in the way these are encoded. Komnzo verbs exhibit what may be called ‘distributed exponence’/ i.e. single morphemes are underspecified for a particular grammatical category. Therefore/ morphological material from different sites has to be integrated first/ and only after this integration can one arrive at a particular grammatical category. The descriptive approach in this grammar is theory-informed rather than theory-driven. Comparison to other Yam languages and diachronic developments are taken into account whenever it seems helpful.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1574/thumbnail.jp
Oregon Writes Open Writing Text
No full textThis textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis/ the writing process/ researching/ citing/ rhetorical modes/ and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field/ the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1604/thumbnail.jp
Building Information - Representation and Management: Fundamentals and Principles
No full textThe book presents a coherent theory of building information/ focusing on its representation and management in the digital era. It addresses issues such as the information explosion and the structure of analogue building representations to propose a parsimonious approach to the deployment and utilization of symbolic digital technologies like BIM.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1605/thumbnail.jp
First Semester in Numerical Analysis with Julia
No full textFirst Semester in Numerical Analysis with Julia presents the theory and methods/ together with the implementation of the algorithms using the Julia programming language (version 1.1.0). The book covers computer arithmetic/ root-finding/ numerical quadrature and differentiation/ and approximation theory. The reader is expected to have studied calculus and linear algebra. Some familiarity with a programming language is beneficial/ but not required. The programming language Julia will be introduced in the book. The simplicity of Julia allows bypassing the pseudocode and writing a computer code directly after the description of a method while minimizing the distraction the presentation of a computer code might cause to the flow of the main narrative.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1612/thumbnail.jp
Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals
No full textDiagnostic Imaging principles and concepts are augmented by the presentation of images for common clinical conditions. Guiding principles related to minimizing radiation exposure and requesting the most appropriate imaging examination are addressed.Static images are enhanced by the ability to access images stored and displayed on an Html-5 compatible/ Dicom image viewer that simulates a simple Picture Archive and Communication system (PACS). Users can also access other imaging from the Dicom viewer (ODIN)/ beyond the basic curriculum provided/ to further advance their experience with viewing diagnostic imaging pathologies.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1639/thumbnail.jp
ClicaBrasil: Portuguese Language and Culture for Intermediate Students
No full textClicaBrasil was developed for intermediate level Portuguese language courses at UT-Austin. People all ove the world are now using it for different purposes: self-study/ classroom instruction/ tutoring/ or as a pastime.The lessons in ClicaBrasil integrate reading/ writing/ listening and reading comprehension/ grammar/ vocabulary/ oral communication/ and cultural activities. Numerous video clips (157/ to be precise!) that show different Brazilians speaking about their lives/ their culture/ and their country support and enhance these activities.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1658/thumbnail.jp