Conceptualizing Internationalization at a Distance: A “Third Category” of University Internationalization

Internationalization of a Distance Exam Web Environment

This paper describes an architecture to provide multilingual support for an exam Web environment with an emphasis on Arabic localization (or Arabization). Developing software products for populations with different cultures is a two-step process: internationalization followed by localization. Proper Arabization is particularly complex with many interesting challenges. In this context, we develo...

The Psychic Distance of the Enterprise Internationalization

Firstly, this article defines the basic concept of the psychic distance, analyzes the influencing factors of psychic distance and establishes an evaluation model based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation on the basis of psychic distance. On this basis, the paper made it clear that the psychic distance is an important factor to affect international development of enterprises. When enterprises want...

Internationalization

Globalization and internationalization are terms of the corporate world. In this scenario, mastering the English language is indispensable and with Brazilian science is not different. CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) and CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) have encouraged postgraduate programs and scientific research to effu...

Internationalization of Universities as Internationalization of Bildung

Internationalization of a Talking Head

In this paper we describe a general scheme for internationalization of our talking head, Baldi, to speak other languages. We describe the modular structure of the auditory/visual synthesis software. As an example, we have created a synthetic Arabic talker, which is evaluated using a noisy word recognition task comparing this talker with a natural one.