Foreign direct investment (FDI) ownership decision is one of the most researched topics in the international business literature. However, little is known about the extent to which this knowledge can be applied to emerging-economy multinationals. Building on the institutional, transaction…

This article documents the operation of multimodal and rhetorical strategies in cosmetic surgery leaflets, with a focus on the interplay between the verbal and visual channels. It describes how advertising discourse exploits the image of an idealized female body in…

The project “hedgerow” is a cooperation between the head of the nature conservation project “Altmühlleiten”, the assistant professor of the department of didactics of geography of the Catholic University of Eichstätt, and pupils of a primary school. The aim of…

En este artículo presentamos una herramienta de acceso a la información, basado en los conceptos, enfocada tanto a textos médicos como turísticos. Usando técnicas para el marcado de entidades reconocidas, el sistema permite extraer conceptos relevantes para aportar más información…

A decade before there was getting up the 'Atlantic Wall', there was executed a system of defenses along the Mediterranean coast in Spain (1936-39). The recovery of the same constructions (both of his graphical documents and of the constructed works…

Expert and novice soccer players (N=140) from five different competition levels (inexperienced, provincial, regional, national and international levels) were examined for differences in procedural knowledge. A video-based test was developed recording four matches of the under-16 Spanish football final play-off.…

Con la presente contribución se pretende abordar el tema de la práctica reflexiva en el ámbito del trabajo social. Las teorizaciones sobre la reflexividad, si bien numerosas y heterogéneas, pueden agruparse en torno a conceptos clave de «conocimiento» y «sociedad».…

La correspondència escrita per l’actriu i directora d’escena Margarida Xirgu (1888-1969), tant la familiar o amical com l’estrictament professional, permet d’aprofundir en la seva vida pública i privada i, especialment, en la xarxa de coneixences i relacions al llarg d’una…

Este artículo presenta el resultado del estudio de un amplio conjunto
de bases de conocimiento multilíngües actualmente disponibles que pueden ser de
interés para un gran número de tareas de procesamiento semántico a gran escala. El
estudio incluye una amplia…

The present paper constitutes an attempt to establish the parameters between
specialized trends in approach, methods or aims, in order to place the analysis of
meaning within the boundries of objetivism and humanism, and to organize in
adequate epistemological channels…