This paper addresses the problem of multilingual digital libraries. The motivation for a such a digital library comes from the diversity of languages of the Internet users as well as the diversity of content authors, from e-book authors to writers of courseware. The basic definitions of such a system, the specifications of its functionality and the identification of the items it holds are discu...

Non-native speakers of English far outnumber native speakers; English is the main language of books, newspapers, airports, air-traffic control, international business, academic conferences, science, technology, diplomacy, sports, international competitions, pop music, and advertising (British Council 2014). Online education in the form of massive online open courses is also primarily in English...

This report gives an overview of the main ideas in Chapter 9 of the studied book, about the dimension of a variety. After recalling some definitions and basic properties about projective varieties, homogeneous ideals and Gröbner bases, we will begin our study of the dimension of a variety with the observation of a geometric way to define the dimension of a variety defined by a monomial ideal. T...

“Are we going to read aloud today?” Kevin 1 asks immediately upon entering the classroom. “Of course,” I answer, but his impish grin warrants suspicion. Kevin’s outward enthusiasm for reading has been a recent development since we began the book. I’ve even seen him with the book outside of class, flipping pages to read ahead of the class. Then it dawns on me. Quickly, I recall what occurs in to...

! Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag for the 1978 San Francisco's Gay Freedom Celebration. In the original eight-color version, pink stood for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony and violet for the soul.! First unveiled on 12/5/98 the bisexual pride flag was designed by Michael Page. This rectangular flag ...

■ Abstract Legal consciousness as a theoretical concept and topic of empirical research developed to address issues of legal hegemony, particularly how the law sustains its institutional power despite a persistent gap between the law on the books and the law in action. Why do people acquiesce to a legal system that, despite its promises of equal treatment, systematically reproduces inequality? ...

CS245 course then covers implementation of a DBMS, notably storage structures , query processing, and transaction management. We're on a quarter system at Stanford, so the principal course using this book — CS245 — is only ten weeks long. In the Winter of 1999, Hector Garcia-Molina used a "beta" version of this book, and covered the following parts: Sections 2. The balance of Chapters 6 and 7 (...

Notre Dame student, Jim Kearns, along with a friend, James Brown of St. Louis UniVl'rsity recently wrote a hook exploring the relationship between the War in Vietnam and the generation gap. The book, Hra of Challenge, is due to he published in paperback form next week by tile !3. lieder Book Co. of St. Louis. The hook looks at the comnews media. They conclude that these stereotypes prevent dial...

The need for a book?or better still, books?on the needs of gifted children is beyond doubt. Of the 33 references given by the authors on this topic, only three are by British writers. It is therefore all the more regrettable that this book cannot be welcomed unreservedly. The preface calls it entertaining and pleasant, and that it certainly is. So are the 15 photographs it contains but, except ...

Motivated by the need to explore the introductory sections of textbooks, the present study attempted to scrutinize three realizations of academic introductions, namely, Preface, Introduction, and Foreword in terms of their functions and potential generic structures in light of Swales’s (1990) views of genre. Moreover, the study aimed to investigate genre-mixing as an interdiscursivity element a...