The Law of Sustainable Development: Keeping Pace

ELAN development, keeping pace with communities' needs

ELAN is a versatile multimedia annotation tool that is being developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. About a decade ago it emerged out of a number of corpus tools and utilities and it has been extended ever since. This paper focuses on the efforts made to ensure that the application keeps up with the growing needs of that era in linguistics and multimodality research; growi...

Keeping Pace with Extreme Data

A fter perusing the articles and guest editors’ introduction for this issue on extreme data, I googled “extreme,” and hundreds of links bubbled up—from computing, coupons, data, and fatigue, to science, scientists and science fun, to “extreme x” (don’t ask). I then concluded that “extreme” has become an unreliable buzzword, used somewhat indiscriminately for its shock value. That said, the fact...

Keeping Pace with the Military-Technological Revolution

President Clinton took office in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the international security environment. Reacting to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the administration’s new civilian leaders at the Pentagon undertook a “Bottom-Up Review” of U.S. military requirements to set the guidelines for the administration’s $1.3trillion, five-year defense program. Despite its p...

the impact of morphological awareness on the vocabulary development of the iranian efl students

this study investigated the impact of explicit instruction of morphemic analysis and synthesis on the vocabulary development of the students. the participants were 90 junior high school students divided into two experimental groups and one control group. morphological awareness techniques (analysis/synthesis) and conventional techniques were used to teach vocabulary in the experimental groups a...

The Principle of Sustainable Development in International Development Law