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 New Points of View on Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility (New Trends in Translation Studies) By Anna Jankowska (editor), Agnieszka Szarkowska (editor) 2015 | 309 Pages | ISBN: 3034318421 | PDF | 2 MB This collection of articles offers a comprehensive overview of some of the most current research approaches found in the field of audiovisual translation (AVT) and media accessibility across Europe. The authors, well-known experts in the field of AVT, reflect on new challenges and look into potential avenues for investigation in professional practices like subtitling, surtitling, dubbing and voiceover as well as audio description (AD), subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing (SDH) and audio subtitling. The book is divided into four sections. The first part discusses some of the cultural challenges encountered by professionals when dubbing and subtitling audiovisual productions and when surtitling live events. The second part focuses on AVT training, particularly on the teaching and learning of voiceover and subtitling. The third section is dedicated to AD and provides a detailed overview of some of the latest developments taking place in this area. The last section examines some of the most prevalent issues in SDH.
 New Literacies, New Agencies?: A Brazilian Perspective on Mindsets, Digital Practices and Tools for Social Action In and Out of School (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) By Eduardo S. Junqueira (editor), Marcelo E.K. Buzato (editor) 2013 | 185 Pages | ISBN: 1433121123 | PDF | 3 MB From students as teachers' pets to teachers as Second Life avatars, or from being ridiculed for not knowing your syntax to ridiculing others through multimodal remixing, something has changed in the way people are acting and being acted upon through literacies. From parallel text processing «under a cloud» to text-as-process enhanced by cloud computing, or from one laptop per child to several laptops left behind by children in creative spoken interaction, learners and educators' actions through and around texts and technologies provide quite a telling example of such changes. From writing as technology to blogging as a tool for fostering critical mindsets within complexity, or from automatized knowledge acquisition routines to new forms of relating to knowledge and new perspectives on autonomy, social ordering and Self constitutional processes defy binaries such as agent/structure, global/local, social/technical, virtual/real, or even human/non-human. In this volume a team of scholars from some of the most prestigious Brazilian universities address these issues, and illustrate them with findings from research on the interplay between new literacies, digital technologies and social action in and out-of-school. The chapters introduce, or revisit, an array of theoretical constructs from education, sociology, linguistics and media studies, while presenting a new inside perspective about how research on new literacies is being carried out in Brazil. Altogether, they provide a very useful set of ideas, tools and analytical frameworks for researchers, teachers, and students of Education, Language and Arts and Communication worldwide, especially those concerned with technology-enhanced education and social inclusion.
 New Discoveries in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031118014 | 941 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 20 MB New Discoveries in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder reviews the latest developments in preclinical and clinical research of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
 Networks of Empire: The US State Department's Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France and Britain 1950-1970 (Cite Europeenne/ European Policy) By Giles Scott-Smith 2008 | 514 Pages | ISBN: 9052012563 | PDF | 3 MB Exchange programmes have been a part of US foreign relations since the nineteenth century, but it was only during and after World War II that they were applied by the US government on a large scale to influence foreign publics in support of strategic objectives. This book looks at the background, organisation, and goals of the Department of State's most prestigious activity in this field, the Foreign Leader Program. The Program (still running as the International Visitor Leadership Program) enabled US Embassies to select and invite talented, influential 'opinion leaders' to visit the United States, meet their professional counterparts, and gain a broad understanding of American attitudes and opinions from around the country. By tracking the operation of the Program in three key transatlantic allies of the United States a full picture is given of who was selected and why, and how the target groups changed over time in line with a developing US-European relationship. The book therefore takes a unique in-depth look at the importance of exchanges for the extension of US 'informal empire' and the maintenance of the transatlantic alliance during the Cold War.  Network Architect's Guide to 5G English | 2022 | ISBN: 0137376847 | 464 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 64 MB As 5G transforms mobile usage and services, network professionals will need to significantly evolve their transport network architectures towards greater sophistication and stronger integration with radio networks, and facilitate transition towards cloud-native 5G mobile core. Until now, however, most 5G guides have foregrounded RF/radio and mobile core innovations, not its implications for data networks. A Network Architect's Guide to 5G fills the gap, giving network architects, designers, and engineers essential knowledge for designing and planning their own 5G networks.  Johnny Lung, "Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care Practice Questions: 35 Questions, Answers, and Rationales to Help Prepare for the TMC Exam" English | 2018 | ASIN: B07L4WJFM9 | EPUB | pages: 80 | 0.1 mb Are Preparing for the TMC Exam?  Negotiating International Commercial Contracts : Practical Exercises by Gustavo Moser and Michael McIlwrath English | 2021 | ASIN: B09929DB15 | 173 Pages | ePUB | 0.16 MB
 Natural Language Processing In Healthcare A Special Focus on Low Resource Languages English | 2022 | ISBN: 9780367685393 | 261 pages | True PDF | 10 MB Natural Language Processing In Healthcare: A Special Focus on Low Resource Languages covers the theoretical and practical aspects as well as ethical and social implications of NLP in healthcare. It showcases the latest research and developments contributing to the rising awareness and importance of maintaining linguistic diversity. The book goes on to present current advances and scenarios based on solutions in healthcare and low resource languages and identifies the major challenges and opportunities that will impact NLP in clinical practice and health studies.
 National Conference as a Strategy for Conflict Transformation and Peacemaking: The Legacy of the Republic of Benin Model By Jacques L. Koko 2008 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 1905068875 | PDF | 2 MB Events in the post Cold War era have challenged the notions of realism and realpolitik, with an upsurge in intrastate conflicts involving other actors than just the state. During this period, the international community has witnessed the limitations of the tenets of realism for addressing disastrous civil wars or ethno-political conflicts internal to the states. Largely because of this, and alongside the emerging field of conflict resolution in western countries, transitional conflict resolution mechanisms emerged with characteristic multi-track diplomacy orientations for solving national problems within African countries. By the end of the 1980s and early 1990s, several African countries, including South Africa, Burundi and Sierra Leone resorted to either a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or an international tribunal to handle violence and restore peace and justice. In the same period, other African countries opted for what was called 'national conference' to solve their national problems and transform conflict into an opportunity for structural change. In February 1990, the Republic of Benin, a small nation-state in West Africa, achieved peace through a national conference. The national conference in Benin was a national gathering for crisis resolution through social debates on critical issues facing the nation, and political decision making for constructive changes. As a pioneer, Benin led the political change movement of the national conference and was later followed by eight other African countries namely, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Mali, Niger, Togo, the Central African Republic, and the former Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. To date, most of the existing literature on the subject explores the phenomenon of national conference as something of a prelude to political transition to multipartyism and democracy. Part of the literature depicts the national conference as a civil coup d'état, and recommends its institutionalization as a system for democratic transitions. This book takes a different approach by conceptualizing the national conference phenomenon as a multi-track diplomacy tool or as a process for conflict transformation and peacemaking. Building upon theories of conflict and conflict resolution, the author analyzes the national conference as a unique diplomatic approach to transforming national crisis, which expands the scope of strategies for peacemaking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jacques KOKO is an Adjunct Professor in the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA, where he teaches "Peacemaking and peacekeeping", "Conflict and Displacement in Africa", and "Ethnopolitical conflict". A Beninois, Professor Koko has worked as a Senior Social Analyst with the Institut Africain pour le Développement Economique et Social (INADES) in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and as an Associate Researcher with the Université Nationale d'Abomey Calavi in Cotonou (Benin). Correlatively with his teaching position at Seton Hall University, he currently serves as a Senior Political Analyst for Americans for Informed Democracy. He publishes in both English and French.  Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, Zhou Xun, "Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China" English | 2004 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0226149056 | PDF | 63,7 mb To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium-a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition. |
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