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Technology- mediated language learning has matured over the past few decades, with various tools and contexts now widely used in language education for all ages and levels. Many of today’s language learners have experienced technology as an ever- present feature both within and beyond the classroom, highlighting how the role of technology has expanded into many daily activities, and underscoring how research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) can inform and support the use of established and emerging technologies. The role of technology in language learning has continued to grow, with the recent COVID- 19 global pandemic further demonstrating the potential contributions of technology for supporting and facilitating second language development. Answering this increasing interest, this Handbook provides students, teachers, and scholars with a comprehensive collection of chapters on foundational topics and key issues related to technology, SLA, and where relevant, pedagogical applications.

Este livro é uma homenagem de amigas, amigos e colegas à Benedita Mac Crorie (1977-2021). Licenciada em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto (2000), doutora em Direito, na área do Direito Público, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2011), foi professora na Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho durante 20 anos. Nele se reúne a biografia, quatro testemunhos e sessenta estudos, escritos para celebrar a vida da Benedita Mac Crorie e a amizade, que tanto e tão bem cultivou sempre.

La maîtrise des langues des pays d’accueil est un des principaux vecteurs de l’intégration des migrants, par un apprentissage « sur le tas » ou en formation. Une synthèse des connaissances sur cette question est rendue nécessaire parce que l’immigration est au centre des débats publics et politiques depuis trois décennies en France et de façon plus générale en Europe. Or, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire, les opinions à ce sujet se manifestent, mais relèvent de partis pris bien souvent sans r...

This Topical Collection is committed to exploring novel nanocomposite materials reinforced with carbon nanostructures for improved mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. This Topical Collection covers the development of metallic, ceramic, and polymeric multifunctional nanocomposites through the incorporation of graphene-based materials, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, nanodiamonds, and nanohorns. Carbon nanomaterials with different dimensions are characterized by excellent mechanical resistance, electrical and thermal conductivity, and high versatility for chemical surface functionalization. This is a critical feature for modulating their interfaces at the atomic level for improved dispersibility and compatibility with several matrices. Within this context, this Topical Collection is dedicated to manufacturing processes, simulation prediction and analysis, and structural characterization of the carbon-based nanocomposite.

The volume presents the reports and discussions held at the conference of the “Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers” in Rostock from October, 4th to October 7th, 2006.

Leaching is a primary extractive operation in hydrometallurgical processing, by which a metal of interest is transferred from naturally occurring minerals into an aqueous solution. In essence, it involves the selective dissolution of valuable minerals, where the ore, concentrate, or matte is brought into contact with an active chemical solution known as a leach solution. Currently, the hydrometallurgical processes have a great number of applications, not only in the mining sector—in particular, for the recovery of precious metals—but also in the environmental sector, for the recovery of toxic metals from wastes of various types, and their reuse as valuable metals, after purification. Therefore, there is an increasing need to develop novel solutions, to implement environmentally sustainable practices in the recovery of these valuable and precious metals, with particular reference to critical metals; those included in materials that are indispensable to modern life and for which an exponential increase in consumption is already a reality, or will be in a short-term perspective. For publication in this Special Issue, consideration has been given to articles that contribute to the optimization of the kinetic conditions of innovative hydrometallurgical processes—economic and of low environmental impact—applied to the recovery of valuable and critical metals.

This book, Wheat Research and Utilization, presents some research areas in plant breeding, production, mitigation, and quality. Wheat is one of the key food crops in the world, cultivated in almost every region, and plays a key role in the global economy. About 20% of the calories humans consume come from wheat, one of the major staple crops in more than 40 countries. As the world population and urbanization continue to increase, there is a shift in dietary patterns where easy-to-cook meals such as wheat-based diets are preferred. Wheat production faces challenges due to biotic and abiotic factors that limit production and productivity, and therefore this book focuses on some of the breeding techniques for abiotic and biotic stresses, climate change and global warming, insect pests and diseases, and insights into end-use quality of wheat.

The here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing.

This open access book details fault diagnosis, prognosis, and tolerant control for complex industrial systems. It is also dedicated to Professor Steven X. Ding for his retirement. This book proposes data-driven quality-related fault diagnosis schemes based on space projection for linear/nonlinear systems. It also introduces credible and efficient fault prognosis techniques for complex industrial systems. It combines fault detection and re-configuration toward the design of fault-tolerant control methods. It will be a useful reference for students and researchers working on fault diagnosis.

Des documents araméens d’Éléphantine dans l’Égypte du viie siècle avant l’ère chrétienne aux enquêtes ethnologiques du xxie siècle sur les juifs éthiopiens en Israël, cet ouvrage présente des problématiques his­toriques, ethnologiques, linguistiques et anthropologiques sur la famille juive à différentes époques, dans les espaces où les juifs ont su fonder des cultures originales. Comment les sociétés juives ont-elles adapté l’arsenal juridique hérité de la Bible et du Talmud relatif au mariage, au divorce, au lévirat ou à l’héritage des filles? Quelle mission éducative relève de la famille? Quel est le rôle de cette dernière dans la transmission de valeurs, rites et coutumes qui fondent l’appartenance ou l’identité? Quelles images apparaissent à l’écran, au théâtre ou encore à travers les stéréotypes de l’épigraphie funéraire ? La construction de la famille s’appuie-t-elle sur les représentations et modèles de parenté engrangés dans une mémoire collective et individuelle ? Ce livre, issu de la collaboration de quinze chercheurs spécialistes des études juives, s’efforce de répondre à ces questions avec clarté et érudition.

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This reprint is to immerse the readers in the latest knowledge and technologies on seismic risk analysis and the management of structure systems. Traditional deterministic approaches are on course to be replaced by risk-based methods for the seismic analysis and design of structures and infrastructure systems. A noted merit of risk analysis is the provision of a broader set of rigorous performance indicators accounting for various sources of uncertainties involved in earthquake hazard analysis, infrastructure exposure modeling, and structural damage assessment, particularly from a view of life cycle management for aging infrastructure facilities under an increasingly deteriorating built environment. A reliable risk analysis is therefore crucial for pre-event planning and post-event restoration decision-making. This reprint paves the way towards advanced and cutting-edge knowledge and technologies for the risk analysis and management of structure systems, including but not limited to bridges and buildings.

Deterrence is possible only when others have at least a good idea of possible U.S. military reprisals, but cyberattack capabilities resist such demonstration. This report explores ways they can be and under what circumstances, then goes on to examine the difficulties and the drawbacks. Such “brandishing” is no panacea and could even backfire if misinterpreted. Its success also relies on the strength of other elements of the deterrence posture.

In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially depraved robbers and the enemy of all, but Heebøll-Holm shows that piracy was often part of private wars between English, French, and Gascon ports and mariners, occupying a liminal space between crime and warfare. Furthermore he shows how piracy was an integral part of maritime commerce and how the adjudication of piracy followed the legal procedure of the march. Heebøll-Holm convincingly demonstrates how piracy influenced the policies of the English and the French kings and he contributes to our understanding of Anglo-French relations on the eve of the Hundred Years’ War.