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The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices, 2017
Gradus. Rivista di Archeologia, Restauro e Beni Culturali , 2022
Journal of Language and Social Psychology , 2019
Willingness to communicate (WTC) in a foreign language is linked to a range of interacting learner-internal and learner-external variables. The present study identified the predictors of WTC of 210 foreign language learners of English from Spain. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the strongest (negative) predictor of WTC was foreign language classroom anxiety, while foreign language enjoyment and frequency of foreign language use by the teacher were positive predictors.
As it is a form of thinking, and an especially significant form at that, the question of the contemporary value and significance of philosophy cannot be asked apart form the question of the value and significance of thinking itself. Yet as Martin Heidegger argues, ours seems to be a time in which we are " in flight from thinking " – a time in which, if thinking is seen as valuable and relevant at all, it is only to the extent to which is serves an instrumental purpose – usually a purpose construed in monetary or commercial terms. Such monetized instrumentalism is deeply problematic, not only because of the way it corrodes any real sense of value or undermines even the idea of the instrumental as such, but because of the way it brings with it a loss of any real sense of limit or bound. It is just such a sense of limit or bound that is central to thinking, and so the contemporary " flight from thinking " can also be understood as a flight from limit or bound. Moreover as thinking finds its own bound, as well as its ground, in truth, so the flight from thinking is also a flight from truth, and a flight, too, from our own humanity.
Comunicación y Medios, 2024
Los deportes electrónicos o esports se han consolidado en los últimos años como uno de los productos culturales con mayor impacto a nivel global en la industria de los medios y el entretenimiento. Aunque las competiciones entre equipos profesionales surgieron como herramienta de marketing, el aumento de su popularidad las está convirtiendo en alternativa a los deportes tradicionales, sobre todo entre los públicos más jóvenes. A ello contribuye el uso de las retransmisiones paralelas a las oficiales por parte de creadores independientes de contenido, quienes amplifican su descubrimiento y alcance. Este artículo realiza un análisis de la audiencia en la edición 2022 de la “Superliga”, el máximo torneo de League of Legends en España. Mediante una metodología cuantitativa, se han representado los 96 encuentros y sus respectivas coberturas, incluidas las producidas por co-streaming. Los resultados muestran un significativo incremento en las audiencias medias y máximas con respecto a las ediciones anteriores que no utilizaban esa técnica. Esta experiencia abre nuevas fórmulas de explotación susceptibles de aplicar a otros espectáculos digitales.
Zede Journal, 2014
A well maintained database system for the Ethiopian roads network would play a significant role in the road maintenance, traffic safety, mobility management, environmental and socioeconomic planning, etc. This paper addresses the design and development of software system called Ethiopian Roads Network Information System (ERNIS). ERNIS is a web application which incorporates geographical information (WebGIS) that is used for gathering, updating and working with the national roads network data for Ethiopia. Using this system, road agencies and other stakeholders can add new road data in the system, update existing roads information, and investigate the maintenance and other requirements of road networks, etc. by remotely accessing the central database through a web browser. Geographical Information System (GIS) data of the roads’ physical location, the towns each pass through, the rivers they cross, location of bridges on the road and other geographical features accompany each road ...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2020
Cancer Causes & Control, 2012
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2007
Scientific Data, 2024
The Legitimacy of Transnational Orders, Workshop, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College, US., 2018
International Journal of Construction Management, 2019
Nova Scientia, 2018
The Proceedings of the International Plant Nutrition Colloquium Xvi, 2009