Swiss Multilingualism: A Historical Background to Language Policy

Multilingualism, language policy and creative writing in Kenya

Language use and creative writing go hand in hand. In the process of exploring language, we also engage in the study of literature. An engagement with literature is, indeed, a continuing process of improving our capacity to use language and refining our sensibility to good language use. In Kenya, there are clearly discernible patterns of creative writing which may be linked to language policies...

Multilingualism and Electronic Language Management

The volume aims to inform the implementation of human language technologies (HLTs) in the service of language policy in South Africa. Its 12 papers are organized into five sections whose themes, except for the first, “HLT resources and policy development,” considerably overlap. The contributors, most with backgrounds in computer science, computational linguistics, and language engineering, are ...

Historical background of strategic culture of "egalitarianism" in foreign policy of Shah Abbas Safavi

Historical Background

The clinical and diagnostic aspects of cystic fibrosis have been extensively reviewed, with an emphasis on neonatal screening. This systematic literature review involved a search for relevant contributions in the PubMed and SciELO databases. The first references to cystic fibrosis date to the Middle Ages. Cystic fibrosis is the most frequent autosomal recessive hereditary disease among Caucasia...

Historical Background

Definition Metasearch is to utilize multiple other search systems (called component search systems) to perform simultaneous search. A metasearch engine is a search system that enables metasearch. To perform a basic metasearch, a user query is sent to multiple existing search engines by the metasearch engine; when the search results returned from the search engines are received by the metasearch...