The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life. Under this view this article analyses the decision-making stage translators go through in the course of…

The objective of this thesis is to clarify the ways that organizational factors influence nuclear power plant performance in order to improve performance. Therefore, this thesis studied the nuclear power plant organizational environment by identifying and detailing its important work…

by Kah-Peng Aw., Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2001., Includes bibliographical references (leaf 55).

La investigación tuvo como propósito generar constructos teóricos que fundamenten las competencias del profesor universitario para la gestión del conocimiento en contextos virtuales de aprendizaje. Los referentes teóricos sobre la gestión del conocimiento, sobre las competencias y lo relacionado con…

Data from a network of experiments conducted during 1998 for 25 maize cultivars and 30 hybrids cultivated in 19 and 16 different environments, respectively, in the states of Piaui, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, and Bahia, Brazil, were…

In this dissertation, I trace methods for organizing skilled workers engaged in creative, limited-term projects in the United States between the nineteenth century and the 1950s. Examining eras of system building in technical fields-civil engineering in the nineteenth century, laboratory…

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This article aims to describe specific practices of television spectators based on
recordings of English families and friends while watching football on television. Their conversations and the talk and events on television are transcribed and analysed with interactional sociolinguistic and…

Depuis quelques années, les statistiques indiquent une croissance exponentielle de l’incidence de certaines infections transmissibles sexuellement chez les jeunes adultes. Certaines enquêtes témoignent en outre des comportements peu responsables en matière de santé sexuelle chez cette population, bien que l’offre…

The Sami people have struggled for centuries to maintain their culture in spite of pressures against it from colonialism. The formal education systems of Norway and Finland have acted in discord with Sami decision-making since their inception. In response to…