73,671 research outputs found
A Mixed-Method Approach for Quantifying Illegal Fishing and Its Impact on an Endangered Fish Species
No full textIllegal harvest is recognized as a widespread problem in natural resource management. The use of multiple methods for quantifying illegal harvest has been widely recommended yet infrequently applied. We used a mixed-method approach to evaluate the extent, charac- ter, and motivations of illegal gillnet fishing in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia and its impact on the lake’s fish populations, especially that of the endangered endemic Hovsgol grayling (Thymallus nigrescens). Surveys for derelict fishing gear indicate that gillnet fishing is widespread and increasing and that fishers generally use 3–4 cm mesh gillnet. Interviews with resident herders and park rangers suggest that many residents fish for subsistence during the spring grayling spawning migration and that some residents fish commercially year-round. Interviewed herders and rangers generally agree that fish population sizes are decreasing but are divided on the causes and solutions. Biological monitoring indicates that the gillnet mesh sizes used by fishers efficiently target Hovsgol grayling. Of the five species sampled in the monitoring program, only burbot (Lota lota) showed a significant decrease in population abundance from 2009–2013. However, grayling, burbot, and roach (Rutilus ruti- lus) all showed significant declines in average body size, suggesting a negative fishing impact. Data-poor stock assessment methods suggest that the fishing effort equivalent to each resident family fishing 50-m of gillnet 11–15 nights per year would be sufficient to over- exploit the grayling population. Results from the derelict fishing gear survey and interviews suggest that this level of effort is not implausible. Overall, we demonstrate the ability for a mixed-method approach to effectively describe an illegal fishery and suggest that these methods be used to assess illegal fishing and its impacts in other protected areas.Peer reviewe
Services in Free Trade Agreements
No full textThis paper reviews the treatment of services in a sample of free trade
agreements. Some of the questions motivating this review are:
1. The extent to which the agreements have a common structure and
content, which will facilitate their amalgamation and the extension of
their conditions to current non-members;
2. The extent to which the agreements go beyond the commitments made
by their members in the GATS;
3. The likelihood that preferential agreements of the type studied here will
have a significant effect on regional services trade
ESP Across Cultures
No full textDiana Al-Aghbari
Pragmatics in the ESP context: an interdisciplinary study 9
Richard Chapman
Questioning assumptions in English language teaching and ESP 25
Stefania Consonni and Michele Sala
Taboo, tabloids and Trump: the rise and twilight of a US President
in digital mainstream news media 37
Ester Di Silvestro and Marco Venuti
Populist leaders and masculinity: a multimodal Critical Discourse
Analysis of hegemonic masculinity performances on social media 57
Daniele Franceschi
Fostering multimodal literacy in ESP teaching: the case of lawyer-client
interviews 81
Christopher Goddard
Legal terminology in English: the challenges of international contexts 105
Jennifer Lertola
Free commentary to enhance writing and speaking skills in EFL teacher
training 125
Ian Michael Robinson
Preparing for CLIL in southern Italy and beyond: CLIL teacher trainin
Roseland Reads Together, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.), 2002
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
ESP Across Cultures
No full textThis present volume constitutes the third online edition of ESP Across Cultures.
The decision to change from a paper-based to an online edition has undoubtedly
been beneficial in terms of enjoying greater visibility within the international academic
community. One thing that has not changed over the years, however, since
the inception of the journal in 2004, has been the policy of double-blind peer reviewing,
which means that only a selected number of the papers submitted end up as
being published.
There are seven papers in the current issue, each one analysing a particular aspect
of English for Specific Purposes from a cross-cultural perspective.
The first paper, by Hmoud S. Alotaibi, focuses on research article introductions
in Arabic, analysing the extent to which scholars writing in Arabic in the sphere of
education adhere to the CARS (Create A Research Space) model delineated by John
Swales which was elaborated in particular with regard to the academic conventions
widely adopted in the English-speaking world. Instead of restricting the investigation
to the introductory section as past studies in this field did, the author examines
all of the subheadings and he concludes that all introductions include Move 2 in a
subheading entitled the Problem of the Study, a result that contradicts previous
findings where the paucity of Move 2 was common in non-English RAs, and especially
in Arabic ones.
Patrizia Anesa analyses the websites of the main arbitration centres operating in
Asia from a textual perspective to define how they are discursively constructed and
can be used as promotional tools, thereby helping us to evaluate the importance assumed
by internationalization processes or by local cultural elements in promoting a
particular centre as a seat for international arbitration. She concludes that while
some scholars argue that we are witnessing the ‘Asianization’ of arbitration, with
the increasing bargaining power of Asian parties, on the other hand a phenomenon
of ‘Universal Arbitration’ is also emerging, i.e. a form of convergence of how disputes
are resolved so that parties of any nationality can operate in the same way
with ever fewer language barriers.
In their paper, Mahmood Reza Atai and Fatemeh Asadnia examine the communicative
and promotional function of university homepages by looking at the ‘university
overview’, ‘university mission statement’, and ‘university introduction at a
glance’ genres, using a corpus of 210 texts selected from homepages of the top 500
universities ranked by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The findings
demonstrated that the three genres shared communicative purposes, functional
units, certain moves and steps, socio-academic contexts, and discourse community
members that led to the formation of a genre set.
Gaetano Falco explores ways of using comics in an MA course on translation of
economic texts as a means of stimulating the interest of language students with no
economics skills in order to introduce economics-related lexis and improve thematic
competence in general. He observes that empirical research has shown that films
and comics can indeed be useful resources to teach economic translation to students
with no skills in economics. However, the author warns that the use of comics for
educational purposes may have its drawbacks, e.g. when students deal with complex
sign systems which embody complex economic concepts, where often the humorous
element is lost.
In her paper, Irina Khoutyz describes the differences in how scholars present
their findings in research articles (RA) in international journals in English and in
Beyza Björkman
Christian Burgers
Jan Chovanec
Anda-Elena Cretiu
Erika Dalan
John Douthwaite
Hanem El-Farahaty
Said Faiq
Silvia Ferreri
Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
Pedro Fuertes-Olivera
Giuliana Garzone
Christoph Hafner
Ruba Khamam
Anna Loiacono
Geraldine Ludbrook
John McRae
Susan Petrilli
Silvia Pireddu
Tarja Salmi-Tolonen
Jeffrey Segrave
Charlotte Taylor
Margherita Ulrych
John Kenneth White
Jessica Williams
I hope you will enjoy the current issue of this journal and will make the most of
the free access to all past issues.
Christopher Williams
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local journals in Russian. She then looks into the reasons for these differences, seeking
explanations from the sociocultural contexts in which these RAs were written,
as well as providing advice to local authors as to how to make their RAs more competitive
at the international level. The differences include the apparent lack of
structure of Russian RAs with respect to English RAs; the tendency in Russian authors
not to specify the purpose in writing a paper; and the tendency of Russian authors
to present the methodology used in less detail compared with English RAs.
Luisella Leonzini investigates the use of verbal and visual metaphors in economic-
media discourse within the context of the euro crisis by studying the correlation
between linguistic and pictorial metaphors and text-image intersemiotic relations.
The research is based on a cross-analysis of English and Italian editorial
articles published between 2009 and 2012. In both corpora, metaphorical realizations
frame the economic crisis which hit the single currency and the eurozone in
2009 as a partial collapse and hint at a possible return to stability in the form of a
recovery. The aim of this paper is to analyse the collapse/caduta and
recovery/ripresa metaphors across languages in the press.
Ian Robinson reports on using corpus linguistics to aid students in writing a creative
text. He looks at the available literature to help understand what is meant by
‘creativity’. A worksheet was prepared using a corpus linguistic analysis of modern,
English versions of the stories of the Brothers Grimm. This worksheet was constructed
with the use of a specialized corpus, and a stop-list was created which contained
single words as well as word clusters found in the tales. Students were then
asked to select some of these words and phrases to help them write stories which
were then analysed, and a follow-up questionnaire was used to elicit the students’
perceptions concerning creativity. The author concludes that creativity is essential
in EFL and that it is something to be fostered in students
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WFCR interviews Psychological Services Center Director Christopher Overtree about free screenings for depression and anxiety
No full text© Copyright 2009, WFCR radio station http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wfcrThe Psychological Services Center at UMASS Amherst is offering free screenings for anxiety and depression for members of the local community. The clinic's director, psychologist Christopher Overtree, told WFCR's Susan Kaplan that, like other mental health clinics in the region, they've seen an increase in the number of patients with anxiety
Labor Saving Devices, inspired by Homer Price," Display, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.)
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
Roseland Reads Together, Sign, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.), 2002
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
Roseland Reads Together, Sign, Roseland Free Public Library (Roseland, N.J.), 2002
No full textAlbum chronicling the 30th Anniversary of the Roseland Library's Incorporation. The event was commemorated by a Borough-Wide reading activity. All families were invited to read the same book, "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey. The festivities on May 11, 2002 at the Library included events from the stories in "Homer Price." A Proclamation from the Mayor regarding this event is issued dated April 23, 2002
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