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E-LEARNING STRATEGIES IN THE CONTEXT OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
No full textGiven the actual society, called often knowledge society, most organizations are experimenting with some form of computer-assisted instruction, in order to train their employees. This article presents briefly the main characteristics of the knowledge society and of the e-learning systems, and how these two concepts interact and affect each other. Also, there are identified the most important informatics technologies which can be used in the e-learning applications. In order to analyze the actual e-learning systems, some of them are identified and compared based on various criteria.e-learning, Web Based Training, Knowledge Society, informatics technologies
Extreme ultraviolet emission lines of Ni xii in laboratory and solar spectra
No full textA linear force-free field solution is presented in cylindrical coordinates, formulated in terms of trigonometric and Bessel functions. A numerical exploration has revealed that this solution describes magnetic field lines that meander in Cartesian space, as well as field lines that lie on toroidal flux surfaces. These tori are in (or close to) the plane perpendicular to the cylindrical axis. Nested tori, as well as tori with shells that have finite thickness, were found. The parameter space of the solution shows that the tori exist within a bounded range of values
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
O poder da palavra e implícitos conversacionais no discurso político de Pieter W. Botha
No full textAbstract (English): The current research article tackles word power, taking into account talking inferences adopting Grice´s perspective (1975). Being so, for the working out of this study, a political speech analysis was needed. Thus, Pieter W. Botha´s political speech of 1985 was adopted, at the time he was South Africa´s Prime Minister and President during the Apartheid system. Methodologically, the study embraced a bibliography consulting methodology (c.f. Marconi & Lakatos, 2003, Freixo, 2011), for allowing in a descriptive study to check the analogy and the differences between the elements of a structure for its analysis. To sum up, it might be stated that the speech analysis of the selected author, can be clinched that there is a systematic saying that leads to a gossiping as a discourse strategy. It might mean that a politic man never take responsibility of his sayings, for letting the receiver check the speech deed.
Key-words: Analysis, Discourse, Inference, Conversational Implicatures.
Abstract (English): The current research article tackles word power, taking into account talking inferences adopting Grice´s perspective (1975). Being so, for the working out of this study, a political speech analysis was needed. Thus, Pieter W. Botha´s political speech of 1985 was adopted, at the time he was South Africa´s Prime Minister and President during the Apartheid system. Methodologically, the study embraced a bibliography consulting methodology (c.f. Marconi & Lakatos, 2003, Freixo, 2011), for allowing in a descriptive study to check the analogy and the differences between the elements of a structure for its analysis. To sum up, it might be stated that the speech analysis of the selected author, can be clinched that there is a systematic saying that leads to a gossiping as a discourse strategy. It might mean that a politic man never take responsibility of his sayings, for letting the receiver check the speech deed.
Key-words: Analysis, Discourse, Inference, Conversational Implicatures.O presente artigo reflete sobre o poder da palavra, tendo em conta as implicaturas conversacionais e visa analisar os efeitos pragmáticos e retóricos da linguagem utilizada por Pieter W. Botha no seu discurso de 1985, considerando os implícitos conversacionais, com o intuito de compreender como esses recursos linguísticos contribuíram para a sustentação ideológica do apartheid e para a perpetuação de um regime baseado na exclusão e no silenciamento do outro, bem como identificar os tipos de implícitos conversacionais presentes no discurso no seu discurso. O trabalho adotou a perspectiva de Grice (1975). A escolha desse discurso resulta do facto de que, apesar de o mesmo ter mais de 30 anos ainda é atual, na medida em que as estratégias discursivas usadas na época, ainda hoje fazem ecos nos nos discursos políticos. Por ser de natureza descritiva e interpretativa, o trabalho adotou uma metodologia baseada em consulta bibliográfica, recorrendo as principais obras que abordam sobre o tema. Os dados analisados foram constituidos a partir do discurso de 1985 de Botha. A análise foi feita mediante trechos de falas retirados no referido discurso. a seleção baseou-se no objetivo do estudo. Análise revelou que a linguagem desempenhou um papel central na sustentação ideológica do regime do apartheid. Por meio de implicaturas conversacionais, insinuações, ironia, eufemismos e omissões estratégicas, Botha construiu enunciados que ocultavam a violência institucional, ao mesmo tempo em que legitimavam a repressão e a exclusão racial. A análise permitiu também verificar a violação sistemática das máximas conversacionais, ao recorrer a metáfora, a ironia, a insinuação. Contudo, pode dizer-se a perspectiva de análise adotada permitiu fazer generalizações ao discurso selecionado, denotando que o mesmo é ideológicamente carregad
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Curriculum inquiry in South African Higher Education: some scholarly affirmations and challenges
No full textCITAITON: Bitzer, E. & Botha, N. 2011. Curriculum Inquiry in South African Higher Education: Some Scholarly Affirmations and Challenges, Stellenbosch: SUN PRESS.The original publication is available from AFRICAN SUNMeDIA - www.sun-e-shop.co.zaBOOK BLURB: In looking at the construction of curriculum from a trans- and multidisciplinary perspective at the higher education level, this book initiates and supports the issues of curriculum design and purposes, escpecially in fields outside the discipline of educational studies.publishers' versio
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
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