Negotiating nature: exploring discourse through small group research

Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Exploring Discourse in Context and in Action

Exploring Substitutability through Discourse Adverbials and Multiple Judgments

In his systematic analysis of discourse connectives, Knott (1996) introduced the notion of substitutability and the conditions under which one connective (e.g., when) can substitute for another (e.g., if ) to express the same meaning. Knott only uses examples which he constructed and judged himself. This paper describes a new multi-judgment study on naturally occurring passages, on which substi...

Exploring the Nature of the Smart Cities Research Landscape

As a research domain, Smart Cities is only emerging. This is evident from the number of publications, books, and other scholarly articles on smart cities indexed in Google scholar and Elsevier’s Scopus—an abstract and citation database. However, significant literature is available on related topics like intelligent city, digital city, and intelligent community based on search results research r...

Exploring Protected Nature Through Multimodal Navigation of Multimedia Contents

We present a framework useful to explore naturalistic environments in a multimodal way. The multimedia information related to the different natural scenarios can be explored by the user in his home desktop through virtual tours from a web based interface, as well as from a dedicated mobile app during an on site tour of the considered natural reserves. A wearable station useful to a guide to bro...

Exploring Knowledge Management Perceptions Among Information Systems Managers - empirical sense-making through focus group research

Despite the increasing knowledge management (KM) awareness and interest among academia and industry, a very diverse range of views and perceptions still exists. There is a need to appreciate the issues and concerns surrounding KM research and implementation among communities of researchers and practitioners. Our research aims to provide a deeper empirical insight of practitioners in terms of th...