cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pragmatics in Medical English: Introducing ESP Learners to Negative Politeness Strategies
Creators: name: Corrizzato, Sara
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: The unprecedented spread of the English language around the globe has contributed to the even-growing use of English in many international contexts that focus on politics, business, safety, technology, science, and tourism. The increasing number of international academic conferences and meetings, whose main language is English, also testifies the special status that this language has acquired all over the world in recent decades, and emphasises the importance of being able to speak and interact with it. Acknowledging the importance of keeping going on developing students’ linguistic skills at the higher level of education, Italian Universities have modified academic programmes by both offering new English language courses and giving additional emphasis to the existing courses. The result is a remarkable increase in undergraduates’ interest in learning English, not only in those who have chosen to get a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures but even in those who are attending different Schools such as Law, Architecture, Economics, Engineering, Natural Sciences and Medicine. In order to meet the specific requirements of Italian academic path, tailor-made programmes following students’ needs have been gradually conceived giving birth to what is now universally known as English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This article explores future healthcare professionals’ acquisition of negative politeness strategies to mitigate patients’ face threats in the subject field through a cycle of tailor-made lectures by the first year undergraduate ESP students at the course degree in Physiotherapy and Nursing at the University of Verona in 2014. This project will describe the approach used to plan the lesson, and the techniques involved in the teaching/learning process (work in pair and groups of work).
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
ROADMAP: extending the Gaia methodology for complex open systems
Creators: name: Juan, Thomas
name: Pearce, Adrian
name: Sterling, Leon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper is concerned with improving the software engineering of agent-based open systems. It critiques the existing Gaia methodology in the light of a motivating example of intelligent home networks. It describes the ROADMAP1 methodology, which extends Gaia with four improvements - formal models of knowledge and the environment, role hierarchies, explicit representation of social structures and relationships, and incorporation of dynamic changes.
title: El papel del radiólogo en el diagnóstico y seguimiento de las lesiones quísticas ováricas
Creators: name: Lombardo, Sagrario
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Pelvis
subject: Abdomen
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: MR

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Las lesiones quísticas en el ovario son muy frecuentes y en su gran mayoría son benignas. Dentro de los tumores,
el 90% son benignos. En relación a los malignos,
el cáncer de ovario es el segundo en frecuencia de los ginecológicos,
tras el de...
LGBT and Queer Research in ESP: Theoretical Implications
Creators: name: Goracci, Giada
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Gender discrimination in higher education is a rooted phenomenon. The overall structure of Western society shows that scholarship on LGBT and queer individuals and organisations in higher education deserves deeper theoretical concern. The presence of several approaches and research on gender issues is the outcome of a limited application of queer theory on academic education in that, as Kristen A. Renn suggests, “[l]esbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and queer research in higher education is embedded in a central paradox: although colleges and universities are the source of much queer theory, they have remained substantially untouched by the queer agenda”[1]. This article ventures to suggest that, notwithstanding the effort to recognise the value of queer theory, universities have not surrendered on the queering of higher education itself. It also proposes reflections and theoretical implications on the interrelation between ESP and the new directions in LGBT and queer research to enhance and improve educational practise and expertise within both queer and nonqueer academic organisations. [1] Renn Kristen A., “LGBT and Queer Research in Higher Education: The State and Status of the Field”, in Educational Researcher, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2010, pp. 132-141, https://www.msu.edu/~renn/RennLGBTQueerEdResearcher.pdf, accessed online 29/10/2014.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Protecting the environment and climate - creating living space - improving quality of life
Creators: name: Becken, Katja
name: Bartke, Stephan
name: Breitmeier, Maresa
name: Brozowski, Frank
name: DeTroy, Sarah Eileen
name: Grimski, Detlef
name: Ilvonen, Outi
name: Keßler, Hermann
name: Meilinger, Valentin
name: Messner, Dirk
name: Schlippenbach, Ulrike Von
name: Schlippenbach, Ulrike Von
name: Schröder, Alice
name: Schuberth, Jens
name: Schubert, Susanne
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Umwelt
subject: Stadtentwicklung
subject: Gebäudebestand
subject: Innenentwicklung
subject: Ressourcenerhaltung
subject: living space
subject: urban development
subject: sustainable building
subject: building stock
subject: inner urban development
subject: resource saving
subject: reduction of pollutants
subject: Climate | Energy
subject: Waste | Resources
subject: Health
subject: Transport
subject: Soil | Land
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: We are facing an enormous challenge: the climate crisis and scarcity of resources require a consistent paradigm shift in housing construction and urban development. Quality of life, health and aesthetics must be combined with environmental, resource and climate protection. This position paper of the German Environment Agency and the Commission for Sustainable Building (KNBau) at the German Environment Agency presents recommendations for the creation of affordable housing that is environmentally, climate and resource efficient, and at the same time climate-adapted, health and socially compatible. The recommendations are primarily addressed to federal policy-makers, especially the departments of building and urban development, environment, climate protection, transport and health. Quelle: umweltbundesamt.de
description: We are facing an enormous challenge: the climate crisis and scarcity of resources require a consistent paradigm shift in housing construction and urban development. Quality of life, health and aesthetics must be combined with environmental, resource and climate protection. This position paper of the German Environment Agency and the Commission for Sustainable Building (KNBau) at the German Environment Agency presents recommendations for the creation of affordable housing that is environmentally, climate and resource efficient, and at the same time climate-adapted, health and socially compatible. The recommendations are primarily addressed to federal policy-makers, especially the departments of building and urban development, environment, climate protection, transport and health.
If watermarks could talk: On telltale watermarks and their applications for digital content authentication
Creators: name: Abdel-Aziz, Bassem
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.
subject: Computer Science.

description: The increasing popularity of digital media is a mixed blessing. As opposed to analog media, replication usually produces perfect copies of the original digital content. Digital watermarking has been proposed as a method for embedding a known piece of digital data within another piece of digital data. Many digital watermarking algorithms have been proposed and tested by several parties. This has led to the emerging of new attacks against these algorithms. A good watermark must survive all known attacks to a certain acceptable degree based on the application. In this work, we first present a brief review of the digital watermarking literature. We look into the class of fragile and semi-fragile digital watermarks used specifically for embedding copyright and authentication codes into digital media. We discuss attacks against semi-fragile watermarks, and propose methods to counter these attacks. We also implement a selected semi-fragile watermarking algorithm in order to analyze its performance. We propose some improvements in order to achieve better performance. The performance of the proposed techniques is verified and evaluated by simulations' results. We conclude that without well designed watermarks that can withstand various types of attacks, watermarking may be rendered useless as a scheme for proof of ownership or for discouraging illicit copying of copyright material.
Supplementary document for Improved light extraction efficiency of AlGaN deep-ultraviolet light emitting diodes combining Ag-nanodots/Al reflective electrode with highly transparent p-type layer - 4983578.pdf
Creators: name: zhang, na
name: Xu, Fujun
name: Lang, Jing
name: Wang, Liubing
name: Wang, Jiaming
name: Sun, Yuanhao
name: Liu, Baiyin
name: Xie, Nan
name: Fang, Xuzhou
name: Yang, Xuelin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Hall data for a p-Al0.4Ga0.6N/Al0.67Ga0.33N superlattice layer. The hole concentration in this p-AlGaN superlattice layer is 3.7×1018 cm-3 at room temperature.
JOOF Digital preservation
Creators: name: Parakkal, Thabassum
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320308
subject: Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopaedics
classificationCode: 320312
subject: Special needs dentistry
classificationCode: 320305
subject: Oral and maxillofacial surgery
classificationCode: 320302
subject: Dental materials and equipment

description: Soft tissue changes after Anterior Maxillary Distraction in growing cleft lip and palate patients
Spatial Heterogeneity in Glacier Mass-Balance Sensitivity across High Mountain Asia
Creators: name: Wang, Rongjun
name: Liu, Shiyin
name: Shangguan, Donghui
name: Radić, Valentina
name: Zhang, Yong
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Mass balance of glaciers in High Mountain Asia (HMA) varies substantially across the region. While the spatial variability is attributed to differences in climatic setting and sensitivity of these glaciers to climate change, an assessment of these factors to date has only been performed on a small sample of glaciers and a small set of climate perturbation scenarios. To advance the assessment to larger datasets, we first reconstruct the time series of reference-surface mass balance for 1952–2014 periods using an empirical model calibrated with observed mass balance from 45 glaciers across the HMA. Forcing the model with a set of independent stepwise changes of temperature (±0.5 K to ±6 K) and precipitation (±5% to ±30%), we assess the reference-surface mass balance sensitivity of each glacier in the sample. While the relationship between the change in mass balance and the change in precipitation is linear, the relationship with the change in temperature is non-linear. Spatial heterogeneity in the simulated mass balance sensitivities is attributed to differences in climatic setting, elevation, and the sensitivity of mass-balance profile (gradient) to changes in temperature and precipitation. While maritime and low-lying continental glaciers show high sensitivity to temperature changes and display a uniform mass-balance sensitivity with elevation, the high-lying continental glaciers show high sensitivity to precipitation changes and display a non-uniform mass-balance sensitivity with elevation. Our analysis reveals the dominant drivers of spatial variability in the mass balance sensitivity across the region: temperature as a single driver for maritime glaciers, and a superposition of temperature, precipitation seasonality, and snow/rain differentiation for continental glaciers. Finally, a set of sensitivity tests with perturbed model parameters confirms the robustness of our results. The model’s ability and robustness to resolve spatial patterns in the sensitivities and their drivers implies that simple modeling approaches remain a powerful tool for analyzing glacier response to climate change in HMA.
Bridging the Gap between ESP and CLIL in the University Context
Creators: name: Leonardi, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Further to the establishment of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), many European countries have joined the Bologna Process in order to standardise their higher education systems to create an open market for both European and non-European citizens (Wächter 2008). As a result, universities felt the need of internationalising their curricula to foster academic cooperation, thus encouraging staff and student mobility. Internationalisation of tertiary institutions implies the use of English as a lingua franca to both attract students and staff from other countries as well as allowing one’s own peoples to move abroad. University teachers of English, then, can choose whether to implement CLIL or teach ESP courses in order to meet these needs of standardisation and internationalisation. The present paper attempts to explore the relationship between ESP and CLIL in the context of tertiary level education. These teaching approaches have been at the core of heated controversies as to whether they are different methodologies or two different terms used for the same approach. From a theoretical point of view, ESP and CLIL share several key features, such as 1) the use of context from different non-linguistic subjects, 2) the use of communicative language teaching methodology and 3) the development of academic and communication skills, among others. Nevertheless, there are also some significant differences between ESP and CLIL such as 1) the objectives and learning outcomes, 2) different approach to L2 and 3) different teachers’ roles, among the most important features. In broad terms, ESP is viewed as being single-focused on language, whereas CLIL is meant to teach both language and subject content simultaneously. This work supports the belief that there are more areas of convergence than divergence between ESP and CLIL and, therefore, English language learning in university contexts could benefit from a gradual and mutual collaboration between these two approaches.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Towards performance-based route selection guidelines for heavy vehicles (the dynamics of heavy vehicles over rough roads)
Creators: name: George, Rodney M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: With an increasing number of transport operators seeking permits to operate nonstandard or purpose-built vehicle types, information is required to assist road authorities to determine which vehicle types could operate on the road network without compromising the safety of other road users. A project was created by ARRB TR to develop guidelines for determining route access for heavy vehicles. This project was developed in conjunction with the state road authorities, the National Road Transport Commission and the transport industry to obtain an understanding of the road space requirements for a range of common vehicle types. This project is the subject of this thesis. Two series of field experiments were conducted with six common heavy vehicle types on public roads west of Parkes NSW. Information collected during these full-scale experiments was used to increase the knowledge of the dynamic behaviour of these vehicles and to develop model route access guidelines. Data obtained from these field experiments also provided information to validate computer models and simulation outputs. This thesis showed that: 1) There was experimental evidence to demonstrate that vehicle lateral movement is excited by differences in vehicle wheelpath profiles (point-by-point pavement crossfall), which make a contribution to trailing fidelity (swept width), offtracking and swept path; 2) Vehicle type and speed are prime influences on the lateral movement of the rear trailer and therefore an important input into the model route access guidelines. Notwithstanding the practical and safety implications of applying different speed limits for various vehicle types, speed is a prime contributor to vehicle lateral movement and should be considered when determining route access; 3) Limited lateral position information suggested that one driver of two vehicle types position the vehicles so that the tyres on the rear trailer track on the sealed pavement and not on the pavement shoulder; 4) Based on a statistical analysis of the data obtained from the small sample which only considered the average crossfall of each test section the relative importance of the key parameters was (highest to lowest), IRI, vehicle speed and vehicle type. It was shown that good estimates of lateral movement can be obtained using a double integration technique of the measured lateral acceleration, without applying compensation for the trailer roll or the pavement crossfall. It is recommended that route access guidelines be developed using the lateral performance of a larger sample of vehicles in each class of heavy vehicles operating over a larger range of road types. The route access guidelines should contain a matrix of information on vehicle type/length, pavement condition roughness/profile and lane width. This would provide operators and regulators with a desk-top assessment tool for determining route access.
True and Fair: a Truly Fair Hendiadys or a Fairly True Tautology? Considerations on a Specialized Formulaic Item
Creators: name: Zanola, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Fairness is not a description, it is an evaluation. As for truth, the concept represents the real facts about a situation, an event, a person. What is true is real and reliable, and what is fair is good. In general English, there is no need to describe anything as both fair and true, but strangely enough the two adjectives are strictly joined in the accountancy domain. Ultimately, the use of such terms seems to raise old well-known problems regarding rhetoric. The couple finds its foundations in literary contexts in the 16th century, it soon becomes a hendiadys in the following centuries, and then it is a codified ‘formula’ in the specialised financial field. A discussion over the need for an interpretation of the terms used by auditors in expressing their opinion appears in the accounting literature. But, this does not change the inherent and long-standing vagueness and ambiguity of the undefined expression, ‘true and fair’ view, which has been used since it was introduced in the 1948 UK Companies Act. The term has a legal origin in the 18th century, and it appears to have been translated into a legal definition concerning corporate accountability in the 20th century. The aim of this short contribution is that of analysing the possible linguistic ‘ordinary’ contexts where the hendiadys true and fair was born, and exploring the meaning of the same ‘formula’ during the centuries in non-financial contexts. We start from the hypothesis that true and fair is a hendiadys, that is to say, a formulaic expression, in which the two components of ‘truthfulness’ and ‘fairness’ are by no means independent. On the contrary, the two terms take strength and completeness one from the other, so as to generate an only complex meaning, whose original usage was, last but not least, a literary and poetical one. The analysis of the hendiadys from the non-financial to the financial context, following steps of the etymological and lexical research methodology, should give a contribution to a more complete definition of the very complex concept of the true and fair view in the Fourth Council Directive.
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A Few Reflections on Specific Learning Disorders and Foreign Language Teaching in Italian Secondary Schools
Creators: name: Panicieri, Silvia
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Foreign language study is an increasingly important part of education everywhere. In Italian primary and secondary schools the teaching of a second language, in particular of English, has been made compulsory with Decreto Legislativo 59 (2004). English is now taught at any level, from Infantry (optional) to Secondary Schools. Furthermore, according to the so called “Gelmini Law” (2010), which transposes a European directive, all students in the final year of secondary schools are required to learn a discipline in a foreign language, according to the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) syllabus. Starting from the observation that the Italian educational system is based on mixed-level/mixed-ability classes, where the principle of inclusiveness is fully applied, the paper reflects on nowadays teachers, who must face in any class the presence of one or more students with a diagnosis of Specific Learning Disorder (In Italian DSA), sometimes combined with an ADHD diagnosis. Therefore, all the teachers are involved in first person and after the implementation of “Law 170” (2010), they have to receive adequate training to recognize and treat these learning disorders. While it has long been agreed that the study of a foreign language is a great challenge to disabled students, this fact has long been generally ignored in the field of foreign language instruction until very recently. Current technologies are undoubtedly effective classroom supports for language teaching activities, while teachers, parents and schools must cooperate to create tailored plans to help students become successful learners. Starting from the writer’s personal experience in the teaching of English in Italian secondary schools, the article examines the educational approach and some of the latest methodologies implemented in a today’s Italian class.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
title: Patrones de lesión cerebral en RM potenciada en difusión en pacientes estabilizados tras sufrir parada cardiorrespiratoria
Creators: name: Perez Piñas, Isabel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
- Definir los conceptos de encefalopatía hipóxico-isquémica y de parada cardiorrespiratoria. - Identificar patrones de daño cerebral en RM potenciada en difusión en pacientes estabilizados mediante maniobras de resucitación tras una parada...
The Importance of Teaching Intercultural Competence in English for Specific Purposes Course in European Medical Schools
Creators: name: Bakić-Mirić, Nataša
name: Gaipov, Davronzhon Erkinovich
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: As demographic and cultural change of Europe continues, European Medical Schools need to take initial steps to educate the future health care providers to become culturally competent in order to be able to treat and cure patients’ who have different perspectives, values, beliefs, and behaviors about health and wellbeing. Hence, the introduction of the concept of intercultural communicative competence in English for Specific Purposes course at European Medical Schools is very important for the future health care providers because it will help them to understand that effective health care delivery depends on clear and effective communication between patients, physicians, and other health care professionals who come from different cultures. By contrast, if communication between health care providers and patients is not clear (due to cultural differences), the entire medical treatment process can be hindered. Thus, this paper will discuss the importance of teaching intercultural communicative competence at European Medical Schools.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Formation of voids in a doped polymethylmethacrylate polymer
Creators: name: Day, Daniel
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We report on the formation of submicrometer voids within a doped polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) polymer under multiphoton absorption excited by an infrared laser beam. An ultrashort pulsed laser beam of pulse width 80 fs at a repetition rate of 82 MHz and a wavelength of 800 nm is focused into a PMMA-based photorefractive polymer consisting of 2,5-dimethyl-4(p- nitrophenylazo)anisole, 2,4,7-trinitro-9-fluorenone, and N-ethylcarbazole. The large change in refractive index associated with a void allows confocal reflection microscopy to be used as a detection method. Voids can be arranged in a multilayered structure for read-only high-density optical data storage. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.
Supplementary document for Improved light extraction efficiency of AlGaN deep-ultraviolet light emitting diodes combining Ag-nanodots/Al reflective electrode with highly transparent p-type layer - 4983578.pdf
Creators: name: zhang, na
name: Xu, Fujun
name: Lang, Jing
name: Wang, Liubing
name: Wang, Jiaming
name: Sun, Yuanhao
name: Liu, Baiyin
name: Xie, Nan
name: Fang, Xuzhou
name: Yang, Xuelin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Hall data for a p-Al0.4Ga0.6N/Al0.67Ga0.33N superlattice layer. The hole concentration in this p-AlGaN superlattice layer is 3.7×1018 cm-3 at room temperature.
title: Evaluación de las complicaciones de las  Fístulas Arteriovenosas Internas para hemodiálisis, mediante Angiografía por Resonancia Magnética.
Creators: name: Astigarraga Aguirre, Elena
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fistula
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Vascular
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Las fístulas arteriovenosas internas(FAVI) ( Fig. 1 ) y las prótesis (o injertos) arteriovenosas (PAV) ( Fig. 2 ) tienen una importancia fundamental en el manejo de pacientes en el estadio final de insuficiencia renal crónica,
ya que dependen de...
An investigation of the neuroregulation and circadian expression of brown fat heat production.
Creators: name: Kelly, Lisa Ann.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.

description: The overall aim of this work is to gain insight into the physiological role of brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis in thermoregulation; to that end, the studies reported here comprise an investigation, in the rat, of both the neural control of interscapular brown fat and the daily pattern of BAT temperature change in the rat. In the first experiment, an acute stimulation paradigm was employed in combination with moveable electrodes, in order to precisely map the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) for sites which elicit stimulation-induced increases in BAT thermogenesis. Of roughly 30 stimulated sites in the VMH region, 20% gave rise to a BAT response; temperature rises ranged from 0.6 to 4.6$\sp\circ$C, and returned to baseline in approximately an hour. In the course of this first study, stimulation of a number of extra-VMH sites was observed to evoke a rapid drop in BAT temperature, a response which has not been well-characterized. Therefore, in the second study, structures outside the VMH were systematically evaluated, using moveable electrodes, for sites associated with a BAT temperature decrease. About 70% of electrode tracks located in the ventral lateral thalamic nucleus (VLT) and the zona incerta (ZI) displayed sites which elicited repeatable drops in BAT temperature. The typical profile showed a temperature drop of approximately 0.5$\sp\circ$C, and took about 30 min drop in core temperature. To investigate the daily pattern of BAT temperature changes, radio-frequency disc transmitters (Mini-Mitter Co., Inc.) were implanted beneath the interscapular BAT deposit, and temperatures were recorded throughout the 24 h cycle of equal light/dark periods, for up to six days. As expected, all data show a circadian cycle; the analysis confirms the strong visual impression given by the temperature profiles of an elevated nocturnal baseline. However, the presence of ultradian rhythms is less clear; spectral analysis suggests that the 8h and 4h cycles are most consistent, and the 4h cycle may be the stronger as it persists in the analysis of the deseasoned data. Three subjects also had a second transmitter placed in the intraperitoneal cavity in order to collect simultaneous core and BAT temperature. The temperature profiles we observe appear to be highly correlated; both the BAT and core patterns are characterized by an elevated nocturnal baseline, peaks and valleys throughout the 24h, and an anticipatory rise in temperature that appears about three hours before light offset. This latter feature, along with the persistence of the BAT nocturnal rise even in the 24h lights-on condition, suggests that BAT temperature rhythm is driven by an endogenous pacemaker, similar to the regulation of core temperature. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Nursing Students and the ELF-aware Sy llabus: Exposure to non-ENL Accents and Repair Strategies in Coursebooks for Healthcare Professionals
Creators: name: Franceschi, Valeria
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: As research on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication increased over the years, interest has started to emerge in the pedagogical implications that the notion of ELF may have in English Language Teaching (ELT). While the majority of the body of work in this area has focused on the (English as Business Lingua Franca) (Louhiala-Salminen and Kankaanranta; Bjørge; Pullin), health care professionals may also benefit from an ELF-oriented syllabus and from ELT materials developed according to the learners’ communicative needs (Takahashi 2014) rather than the traditional RP-based model. This paper aims at analyzing the audio tracks included in two ESP textbooks targeting nursing students at a pre-intermediate level in order to determine the presence of: non-ENL accents, communication between non-native speakers, instances of meaning negotiation of linguistic accommodation. In the last section of the paper, potential activities are outlined that may contribute to fostering awareness of the need for negotiation and accommodation in the students as well as encourage them to reinforce these skills in class.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
The Master of Petersburg: Coetzee and Dostoevsky Merging Through Fiction
Creators: name: Civieri, Alice
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: In 1994, John Maxwell Coetzee, the white South African writer recipient of the Nobel prize for literature in 2003, writes The Master of Petersburg, a novel different in style and narrative structure from his previous works that features the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky as its main character. The article aims to focus on the functions of biography and autobiography (or better, autre-biography) in the novel. The ‘lies’ of identity and of History, an important theme in Coetzee’s fiction, will be highlighted in relation to the role of the writing process, and the parallelism between Dostoevsky’s predicament in Russia and Coetzee’s in South Africa will be attempted. Particular attention will be given to the role of art and writing in such peculiar historical contexts.
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title: Hallazgos por imagen tras la reconstrucción protésica mamaria y sus principales complicaciones
Creators: name: Buitrago Weiland, Guadalupe
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Mammography
subject: Prostheses

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
- Conocer los diferentes tipos de prótesis mamarias y su apariencia en pruebas de imagen. - Describir las principales complicaciones de las prótesis mamarias y sus hallazgos radiológicos. - Describir las complicaciones tras la retirada de...
Beyond Myth:The Memory of Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
Creators: name: Compagnoni, Michela
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Since her death in 1603, Queen Elizabeth I has been remembered in ways that increasingly depart from history (Doran and Freeman 2003). Soon after James I was enthroned, mythical representations of Elizabeth – the warrior queen epitomizing chastity and national glory – were revived in popular recollections and literary eulogies, while the more controversial aspects of her reign were being partly repressed. Shakespeare’s treatment of Elizabeth’s legacy in his Jacobean plays was however different from most of his contemporaries’. Albeit drawing from the renowned androgynous representations and virginal imagery of the Queen (Palfrey 1997) – Shakespeare’s feminine roles do not celebrate the mythologized memory of Elizabeth as an imperishable model of sovereignty. On the contrary, they feed on the paradoxes of her femininity, thereby retrieving the whole complexity and contradictoriness of the Virgin Queen’s myth (Montrose 2006). My paper intends to address Shakespeare’s idiosyncratic recasting of Elizabeth’s myth through an insight into the articulation of gender roles in The Winter’s Tale. As it bears nuanced traces of the lost Queen, such a reshaping of femininity – I argue – polemically targets the widely contested rule of the present King in line with widespread discontent.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
The Function of Titles in Some Postcolonial Literary Texts in English
Creators: name: Pes, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: The article analyses the function of titles in a selection of colonial and postcolonial novels in English. By availing herself of the theoretical premises of Jerrold Levinson, John Fisher and S.J. Wilsmore, the author argues that the hermeneutical purpose of titling has in postcolonial literature both an aesthetic impact and a political connotation. In this light, the title becomes a vector of specific postcolonial issues inherent in the text, and denounced by it, by means of which the writer takes a specific position in relation to imperialist ideologies and dominant modes of representation. In such a context, the aesthetic value of the postcolonial text is in the political message it transmits, and the title indeed contributes to strengthen or to focalize the meaning and resonance of this message. Some significant titles of works produced in different geographical contexts and historical periods (Heart of Darkness, A Passage to India, Things Fall Apart, My Place, Where We Once Belonged, Foe, The Lonely Londoners, The Emigrants, Brick Lane, N-W) are examined as representative of a typically postcolonial coincidence of poetic value/political message and they are considered in the light of different levinsonian categories like “undermining titles”, “reinforcing titles”, “focusing titles”, “allusive titles”.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Il meticciato nell'Italia contemporanea. Storia, memorie e cultura di massa
Creators: name: Petrovich Njegosh, Tatiana
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: While race is being dismissed as a scientific category, it exists as a socio-symbolic category producing racializing dynamics which heavily affect the life, opportunities and death of racialized people at a global level. Together with material repercussions, race simultaneously engenders performative and symbolic effects. Both in Italy and abroad, dominant approaches have been based on true/false-real/unreal binaries (Winant), recently put into question by different, interdisciplinary perspectives. As many scholars argued and the current debate on citizenship furtherly demonstrates, contemporary Italian identity is still built on colonial and Fascist racial beliefs and interdictions. A silenced, invisibilized taboo in the public, institutional debate as well as in the official memory of the nation, racial miscegenation is a crucial and problematic issue within the mass popular culture of the last thirty years.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Supplementary document for The influence of different linear polarized light on the measurement of water absorption coefficient, a case study in Qujiang lake, China - 4983851.pdf
Creators: name: Cao, Hongye
name: Han, Ling
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Li, Liangzhi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Material
Klimaschutz in der räumlichen Planung: Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Raumordnung und Bauleitplanung
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Emissionsminderung
subject: Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie
subject: Energiepolitik
subject: Energieeffizienz
subject: Siedlungsstruktur
subject: Bebauungsdichte
subject: Siedlungsentwicklung
subject: Erneuerbare Energie
subject: Raumordnung
subject: Klimaschutz
subject: Raumplanung
subject: Leitfaden
subject: Grundsätze der Raumordnung
subject: Bauleitplanung
subject: Raumordnung und -planung
subject: CO2-Minderung
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Climate | Energy
subject: Waste | Resources
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Soil | Land

description: Als Grundlage für die Praxishilfe „Klimaschutz in der räumlichen Planung“ wurde im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes eine Reihe von Konzepten, Plänen und Programmen auf teil- bzw. gesamtstädtischer, regionaler und Landesebene untersucht, die für die Integration des ⁠Klimaschutz⁠ in die räumliche Planung beispielhaft sind. Es handelt sich im Schwerpunkt um formelle Instrumente (Bebauungs- und Flächennutzungspläne, Regionalpläne, Landesentwicklungspläne). Komplementär wurden auch informelle Instrumente untersucht, die die fachliche Grundlage für eine integrierte und effektive Bearbeitung des Klimaschutzes in der förmlichen Raumplanung darstellen (v.a. Energieversorgungs- und Klimaschutzkonzepte).
Restriction of sccess to healthcare and discrimination of individuals of sexual and gender minority: an analysis of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights from an ethical perspective
Creators: name: Skuban, Tobias
name: Orzechowski, Marcin
name: Steger, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: access to healthcare
subject: discrimination
subject: LGBTQI
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Sexual and gender minorities
subject: Health services accessibility
subject: Health inequities
subject: Minority health
subject: Vulnerable populations
subject: Ethics, Medical
subject: LGBT
subject: Medizinische Versorgung
subject: Diskriminierung
subject: Medizinische Ethik

description: Individuals of sexual and gender minority (SGM) form a vulnerable group with specific healthcare needs that might be prone to experience discrimination and restrictions regarding their access to healthcare. As the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) offer a normative perspective on these issues, we analyzed them systematically (1) to identify whether and in what manner ECtHR’s judgments concern restriction of access to healthcare for SGM individuals and (2) to identify and categorize the ways of discrimination to which SGM individuals are exposed. We conducted a systematic search of the database of the ECtHR’s judgments with the use of specified search terms. Descriptive statistics were performed on the identified judgments. Subsequently, we analyzed the judgments with the use of a qualitative method of thematic analysis. We identified n = 73 cases relevant for our study. In n = 7 (9.59%) of judgments, we found limitations of access to healthcare for SGM individuals, e.g., in cases of restrictions for transsexual individuals to receive hormone or surgical therapy. We regard this as a specific form of discrimination. Furthermore, we identified five other categories of discrimination: restriction of parental rights, failure to respect one’s gender identity/sexual orientation, discrimination by jurisdiction, prohibition of promotion, and verbal/physical attacks. The ECtHR proves to have a balanced view on the sensitive topic of sexual self-determination condemning any form of discrimination or restriction of access to healthcare. However, there is a need for further research on discriminatory acts by other individuals, e.g., healthcare providers, rather than by public authorities.
El orden de Melquisedec, de Calderón de la Barca / estudio y edición.
Creators: name: Urzáiz Tortajada, Héctor.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Literature, Romance.

description: This M.A. thesis offers an annotated edition of Calderon's auto sacramental El orden de Melquisedech. The thesis consists of: (1) an introductory study, composed of: (a) a general survey of the dramatic genre to which the auto sacramental belongs; (b) the date of composition of El orden de Melquisedech; (c) a critical analysis of the auto, with special emphasis on staging and allegory; (d) editing criteria; (e) a bibliography. (2) the edited text of the auto, whose spelling and punctuation have been modernized except where the pronuntiation would be affected. All the changes introduced in the copy-text have been registered in the textual notes. (3) philological notes, where any difficult passage, internal references and biblical, literary and other allusions are explained.
Da Gordon a Django. Figurazioni dell'eroismo e memoria della schiavitù negli Stati Uniti
Creators: name: Scacchi, Anna
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Even before its release in 2012 Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained was the object of hot transatlantic discussions, mostly criticizing the film as one more item to add to the long list of “white savior narratives” produced by Hollywood and questioning the right of white authors to appropriate black stories. Indeed, unlike the Caribbean and other former slave countries, where the public memorialization of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade has recently shifted its focus from benevolent white heroes to black freedom fighters, the US still finds black heroism and the representation of the agency of the enslaved problematic. While challenging the interpretation of Tarantino’s film as a white savior narrative, this essay deals with the US failure to represent black rebels fighting for emancipation in the public space. It also explores African American visual and literary counternarratives of black heroism, finally asking whether Jamie Foxx’s Django, though an individualistic hero who lacks racial awareness, responds to contemporary young blacks’ distrust in progressive narratives of the US race question.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
The problem of a visually based theory of knowledge for the presentation of design practice as academic research
Creators: name: Feast, Luke
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Design has been traditionally seen as either a form of applied science or applied art. However, as this paper will show, the epistemological legacies of art and science provide models of knowledge insufficient for design which has consequently created problems in defining the nature of 'formal' design knowledge and its relation to academic research.
Estetica della razza. Continuità e rotture in Brasile
Creators: name: Sansone, Livio
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In Latin America the physical appearance of the various groups in the population, both native and of foreign origin, has never left unaffected the scores of foreign travelers or sojourners that made it to this part of the world between 1500 and 1800: they experienced it as either seducing or repulsive. In this region physical appearance and, more generally, someone´s look have effectively heavily determined someone´s position in a social pyramid where being white – or been seen as such – was associated to its top. This aesthetic past has influenced the way today´s notions of beauty, ugliness, whiteness, blackness are constructed as an aesthetic phenomena in which the category of race takes a key role. After giving an overview of the racial aesthetics of the past this article focuses on Brazil and expands on how this bears on the contemporary process of semantic transformation - from liability to asset - and promotion of the tangible and intangible cultures associated with the native population and the population of African descent.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
The NANOGrav 11 yr Data Set: Solar Wind Sounding through Pulsar Timing
Creators: name: Madison, D. R.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Arzoumanian, Z.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Crowter, K.
name: DeCesar, M. E.
name: Demorest, P. B.
name: Dolch, T.
name: Ellis, J. A.
name: Ferdman, R. D.
name: Ferrara, E. C.
name: Fonseca, E.
name: Gentile, P. A.
name: Jones, Glyn
name: Jones, M. L.
name: Lam, M. T.
name: Levin, L.
name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Lynch, R. S.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Mingarelli, C. M. F.
name: Ng, C.
name: Nice, D. J.
name: Pennucci, T. T.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Ray, P. S.
name: Spiewak, R.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Swiggum, J. K.
name: Zhu, W. W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has observed dozens of millisecond pulsars for over a decade. We have accrued a large collection of dispersion measure (DM) measurements sensitive to the total electron content between Earth and the pulsars at each observation. All lines of sight cross through the solar wind (SW), which produces correlated DM fluctuations in all pulsars. We develop and apply techniques for extracting the imprint of the SW from the full collection of DM measurements in the recently released NANOGrav 11 yr data set. We filter out long-timescale DM fluctuations attributable to structure in the interstellar medium and carry out a simultaneous analysis of all pulsars in our sample that can differentiate the correlated signature of the wind from signals unique to individual lines of sight. When treating the SW as spherically symmetric and constant in time, we find the electron number density at 1 au to be 7.9 +/- 0.2 cm(-3). We find our data to be insensitive to long-term variation in the density of the wind. We argue that our techniques paired with a high-cadence, low-radio-frequency observing campaign of near-ecliptic pulsars would be capable of mapping out large-scale latitudinal structure in the wind.