Nominally free, unrestricted training in portable computer skills is offered by the majority of U.S. temporary help supply (THS) establishments, a practice that is inconsistent with the competitive model of training. This paper asks why temporary help firms provide free general skills training. The answer proposed is that in addition to skills formation, training plays an informational role at ...

the need for intercultural awareness and skills emerges strongly in both distance learning courses, and in social life in multicultural societies. the study of online language transactions is therefore an important aspect of the emerging culture and sociolinguistics of computer mediated communication. the research reported in this paper concerns perceptions held by students in an iranian univer...

Many children with specific language impairment (SLI) show impairments in discriminating auditorily presented stimuli. The present study investigates whether these discrimination problems are speech specific or of a general auditory nature. This was studied using a linguistic and nonlinguistic contrast that were matched for acoustic complexity in an active behavioral task and a passive ERP para...

This study analyses the role of Chile's Productive Alliance Programme (PAP) in increasing welfare and improving access to market for smallholder producers, by developing a sustainable agriculture both social environmental terms. programme started 2007 under Ministry Agriculture now serves 3,600 smallholders Chile. It seeks create commercial partnerships between these large companies, providing ...

Economic inequality in South America decreased steadily since 2002. However, as the beginning of 2010s marked end commodities boom region, economic showed constant or even increasing rates some these countries. The decrease has often been related to impact macro changes, like commodity prices and institutional reinforcement, changes labor market. Therefore, proposedhyphotesis is that productive...