I had never been to a language technology conference in France before, but when I saw the 2005 ad for the “Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching,” know as UNTELE for short, I thought this conference looked too…

From the perspective of Michel Foucault’s conceptualizations of biopower and technologies of normalization, disability activism emerges as a collective protest against the form of power/knowledge that produces disability as an abject identity. Yet, disability activists also claim a “right to…

Esta investigação teve como objetivo reconhecer semelhanças e diferenças na configuração de casos de professoras de Educação Física caracterizados de abandono do trabalho docente. Particularmente, buscou compreender como os membros da comunidade escolar, em especial os gestores, enxergam (se é…

Second language teaching strategies have long evolved with changes in educational technology.  In today’s Web 2.0 environment, we strive to ensure students richly participate in computer-mediated communicative (CMC) activities so as to expand students’ target language and/or target culture knowledge.…

The growth of culturally and linguistically diverse population in Malaysia has led to many efforts to encourage or ensure that health care systems respond to the distinct needs of culturally and linguistically different patients by becoming “culturally competent”. So the…

This paper is describes the method of measuring the flux linkage versus current and rotor position of SRM for submersible pump application. The knowledge of flux linkage characteristics of motor is utilized for determination of performance of motor, design of…

APRESENTAÇÃO   A vida oportuniza momentos para leituras, reflexões e ações! Durante o percurso profissional acadêmico e social, enfrentamos os desafios de continuar a jornada, de acolher novos membros na trajetória (autores, avaliadores, revisores e editores), com os quais aprendemos que…

Computers play crucial rule in our daily life. It seems that avoiding use of computers is totally impossible nowadays. Computers are found in everywhere in any devices, for example, in TV sets, cell phones, refrigerators, even microwave oven and laundry…

El número de rescates en montaña, al igual que el número de heridos, sigue una línea ascendente en España y en Aragón, que es donde se ubica cerca del 40% del total de los rescates. Sin embargo, los montañeros rescatados…

In this dissertation I examine the conceptions of opinion (<italic>doxa</italic>}), knowledge (<italic>gnosis</italic>), and understanding (<italic>episteme</italic>) that are presented by the character Socrates in Plato's <italic>Meno</italic> and <italic>Republic</italic>. A central claim I make, and one that sets my interpretation apart from…