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Bologna’s process and the opening of university teaching to new educational scenarios provide an opportunity for the implementation of innovative and active methodologies. This paper describes a practice implemented by the share and reuse of learning contents using streaming technology. Streaming technology was used since it promotes the support of pedagogical activity as a dynamic resource and...

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The message, stylistic focus, language and readability of financial reports are good indicators of the perspectives and developments of any company. These indicators can guide companies ̓decision makers to more efficient actions in the dynamic business environment. In this paper, we have studied the language and contents of quarterly financial reports using automated linguistic and text mining ...

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HomeBank is a new component of the TalkBank system, focused on long-form (i.e., multi-hour, typically daylong) realworld recordings of children’s language experiences, and it is linked to a GitHub repository in which tools for analyzing those recordings can be shared. HomeBank constitutes not only a rich resource for researchers interested in early language acquisition specifically, but also fo...