This article will first give an overview of multicultural, multilingual Britain and place it within the context of community literacy. It will then discuss education reforms and policies that have aimed to place multicultural and multiple literacy at their centre…

The topic of pacing at the level of the individual class hour has received relatively little coverage in research literature.  In order to provide a research-based take on the issue, the current work surveys the existing literature, develops terminology and…

This article provides a summary of some of the key ideas of Seedhouse (2004). The study applies Conversation Analysis (CA) methodology to an extensive and varied database of language lessons from around the world and attempts to answer the question…

This article will examine the level of sustainability for companies in Continuous Improvement Management and the factors which are supporting sustainability during time, through a survey to 350 companies of Basque Autonomous Community and Navarra in June of 2009. The…

In the last 30 years of research of lean manufacturing many different questionnaires was proposed to check the degree of the use of the concept. The set of the items used changed considerably from one investigation to another one. Until…

In this work, the design, construction, calibration and compliance measurement of a universal testing machine for tension tests of materials in film geometry are presented. A commercial load cell of 220 N and sensitivity of 1.2345 mV/V is used to…

An important tool for teaching is used at University of Alicante: the virtual campus. We think that information and communication technologies can help us to improve our teaching. Last year, we prepared some materials for our students and checked whether…

Se han estudiado los efectos de los complejos zinc-metionina con la relación molar 1:1 y 1:2 como suplementación alimentaria de zinc en ratones. La obtención y la caracterización de dos complejos de zinc fueron evaluadas por análisis elemental y FTIR.…

Since academic year 2003/2004 a series of modifications has been introduced in physics subjects of the Engineering degrees of the University of Alicante in order to achieve a continuous evaluation. The importance of continuous evaluation increases the students’ success, in…

DATA QUALITY IS DEGRADED DURING THE PROCESS OF EXTRACTING AND MERGING DATA FROM MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES. BESIDES, USERS HAVE NO INFORMATION REGARDING THE QUALITY OF THE ACCESSED DATA. THIS DOCUMENT PRESENTS THE METHODS UTILIZED TO ASSESS DATA QUALITY AT MULTIPLE…