The A2BX4 family of ternary compounds represents an important class of materials. Members of this group, in addition to being among the earth most abundant materials, also span a significant range of physical properties including ferromagnetism, coexistence of transparency and p-type conductivity, ferroelectricity, etc. Today we know for about 800 ...

The A2BX4 family of compounds covers �44 different crystal structure types and manifest a wide range of physical properties, including ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity, transparent conductivity, as well as superconductivity. We describe here a diagrammatic separation of the different crystal structures of �688 ...

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... Title : The Effect of Text Difficulty on Machine Translation Performance -- A Pilot Study with ILR-Rated Texts in Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, Russian and ...

The program is designed for adults with no previous knowledge of the language. The emphasis is on the development of conversational ability for survival in a Spanish-speaking country and is supported by authentic reading materials. The audiocassettes incl...

Equations are developed for the heat transfer by both conduction and radiation between two separated surfaces at different temperatures. The text for explaining the steps in developing these equations is in Spanish. (LCL)

The course is designed for those who already have a good command of Spanish and want to learn Brazilian Portuguese. It focuses on Portuguese pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary that have similar, but not always identical counterparts in Spanish.

A page which celebrates the 2008 International Exposition Zaragoza. The properties of the Oblique Cone and the Curve of Claveria are explained. The text is in Spanish.

A text on the classical and folk dance of Spain includes a pretest, provided in both English and Spanish; text about the dance in general and the dance of Spain, both classical and folkloric; tests on the text, in both English and Spanish; more specific readings about the traditions of ...

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...more Equal Housing Lender Posters, the text of which is prescribed in paragraph...least 11 by 14 inches in size, and the text shall be easily legible. It is recommended...Spanish-speaking population. (b) The text of the Equal Housing Lender Poster...

A collection of 11 papers presented at the conference on applications of foreign languages and international studies to business addresses curriculum development and materials selection for college business Spanish. The following papers are included: "Procedures for Implementing and Funding Spanish Courses for University Business Students" (Laura J. ...

In this paper, the authors analyse the conceptual contents related to plant nutrition in the widely-used school texts of six Spanish publishers. An analysis dossier was elaborated based on the epistemological and pedagogical study of this subject. The publishers deal with the issue of plant nutrition at three different levels (multicellular, cellular and ...

An assessment is presented of the current situation of text reading comprehension research with Spanish-speaking blind persons. An overall view is offered on the operativity and evaluation of text reading comprehension processes, presented in a number of different media, such as braille, recordings and speech synthesis. A programme of ...

Emphasis is on speaking and understanding useful Spanish. Study at your own pace; no instructor required. Four modules comprise this course with one or more units in each module. Each module has its own glossary, with a cumulative glossary also provided. ...

Spanish programmatic in Latin American dialect is intended to lead you to a minimum professionally useful level of proficiency. The course offers five learning modes as follows: introduction, dialogue, grammatical practice, variations, and application. Th...

Bienvenido--Welcome to our yearly list of recently published Spanish or bilingual science texts. Although most of these titles are for grades K-2, Spanish-speaking scientists-to-be of all ages will find these selections both enjoyable and informative. For

Jan 7, 2004 ... The left column on each page is in Spanish; the right is in English. "The book has been primarily intended to educate the Costa Ricans in ...

... In addition, there are now 31 foreign editions of this classic text in such languages as Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Nepali, Tibetan, German, French, Italian ...

Units 31-45 introduce nominalized verbs and adjectives, numbers, past progressive and present subjunctive verb forms, days of the week, months, and colors.

... with structures referred to in the keys. The bilingual nature of the labels may be useful for ... end of the book, the text is mostly bilingual, except the Spanish-only dedication, copyright pages, and ....

A teaching manual for small business accounting is prepared in Spanish text by a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia.

Medical Center of Akron. Also available in Spanish Related Pages Spina Bifida Birth Defects CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Text size: s m...

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This beginning through advanced Spanish text includes grammar explanations, readings, and exercises with the emphasis on situations involving travel and tourism. The introductory lesson covers the Spanish language, the importance of Spanish in the United States, the Spanish alphabet, ...

In Experiment 1, monolingual native Spanish speakers (NSSs) had better kernel recall and longer end-of-clause (EOC) pauses than native English speakers (NESs) when reading texts that varied in syntactic complexity as a function of the number of nonessential clauses added to the kernel text. NSS familiarity with embedded clauses in ...

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This publication, written primarily in Spanish, is an activity book designed to teach Spanish through translation based on the theory that, in order to produce an acceptable translation, students must focus their attention on lexical and grammatical detail. The book combines incisive grammar explanations, relevant lexical information, and a wide variety of ...

From well-designed series with colorful illustrations and easy-to-read Spanish texts for the very young, to exquisite publishers' series with eye-catching, close-up photos about the world of animals, to clear explanations about basic concepts of energy and matter and more, these recently published science books in Spanish will ...

from a Portuguese Seed Lexicon Stefan Schulza,b Korn�el Mark�ob,c Eduardo Sbrissiaa Percy Nohamaa Udo of a Spanish medical subword lexicon from an al- ready existing Portuguese seed lexicon. Using two non the similarity of fixed-window context vectors on the basis of Portuguese and Spanish text cor- pora. 1

This performance guide is the result of work conducted at the University of Virginia's National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 1989, on "Spanish Literature in Performance," in which 25 secondary school Spanish teachers studied Spanish texts from the perspective of classroom performance to deepen ...

This performance guide is the result of work conducted at the University of Virginia's National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 1989, on "Spanish Literature in Performance," in which 25 secondary school Spanish teachers studied Spanish texts from the perspective of classroom performance to deepen ...

This performance guide is the result of work conducted at the University of Virginia's National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, in 1989, on "Spanish Literature in Performance," in which 25 secondary school Spanish teachers studied Spanish texts from the perspective of classroom performance to deepen ...

Chalcogenides, A2BX4, with the Th3P4 structure were identified as potential IR window materials. A crystal chemical evaluation showed that this chalcogenide structure alone is cubic with all cations in 8-fold coordination. Compounds with the formula MLn2S4 (where M=Ca, Sr, Ba, Eu2(+), Pb, and Cd and Ln = La, Ce, ...

A method for text block detection is introduced for old handwritten documents. The proposed method takes advantage of sequential book structure, taking into account layout information from pages previously transcribed. This glance at the past is used to predict the position of text blocks in the current page with the help of conventional layout analysis ...

As part of a larger project to examine the complexities of patient adherence to medical directions, the current study compares written information given with prescribed medicines to patients in the United States (US) and Spain suffering from two chronic diseases. First, the legal context of the voluntary nature of the provision of such information in the US, and the mandatory nature of provision ...

This volume, entirely in Spanish and Pima, presents extensive descriptive information about the language spoken by the Pima of Mexico. An introductory chapter reviews the history of research on the language. The second and third chapters explain its phonology and morphology. In the fourth chapter, a number of oral histories and ethnographic texts are ...

First-principles super-cell investigation of the rattling effect in Li-doped KCl This article has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text article. 2009 J. Phys-cell investigation of the rattling effect in Li-doped KCl Xing Gao and Murray S Daw Department of Physics

Despite the growing body of research investigating the nature of text-reading fluency and its relationship to comprehension among monolingual children, very little is known about text-reading fluency for language minority (LM) learners reading in English. The present study investigated the nature of text-reading fluency--its ...

Three analyses of Spanish-English cognates were conducted, with the purpose of identifying features that might facilitate or inhibit bilingual students' cognate recognition and cross-language transfer of vocabulary knowledge. Results revealed that both the General Service List and the Academic Word List (AWL) contain a substantial number of English-Spanish ...

This article from Agriculture21 cites the management practices and policies that will be necessary to avoid water crises in the coming three decades. There are links to information on raising water productivity, improving irrigation technology, and modernizing irrigation management. The text is available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese.

This version of the 2003 TUS-CPS has been modified somewhat from the original to reflect slightly different text at some items on the Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese translations of the 2003 TUS.

Units 46-55 drop the phonetic spellings, introduce past, past perfect and present perfect subjunctives, conditional tenses, the passive voices, and noun-forming suffixes.

... of the text that were beyond my limited fluency in Spanish. Literature CitedRivero, J. A. 1978. Los ... ...

An analysis was conducted of English and Spanish text. The statistical analysis determined the independent probability of letters and the joint probability of various letter combinations for large samples of each language. Various methods were tested in a...

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Using photometric and spectroscopic data of the region of the open cluster Trumpler 9, we estimated the distance, age and reddening of the cluster. The age derived in this work is lower than previous estimates from other authors. FULL TEXT IN SPANISH

Using a visual approach, this applet is designed to help students learn to solve equilibrium calculations and also to help them gain a deeper understanding of the topic. It can be used by the instructor in the classroom as equilibrium topics are introduced. Sample exercises for students are included. The text is available in both English and Spanish.

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The report gives the results obtained in comparing English, German, Spanish and Japanese in the light of Yngve's Depth Hypothesis. Sixty-eight different language patterns distributed over 111 different sentences in these languages and a scientific text we...

...Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. Each petition filed under this part must� (a) Be written in the English or Spanish language; (b) Have, preceding its text, the word �Petition�; (c) Contain a brief statement concerning the...

This guide presents essays and curriculum units designed for use by secondary and college teachers of French, German, and Spanish as a foreign language. The first section of the work includes two essays, in French, and eight curriculum units based on the stories of Guy de Maupassant. The second section contains seven curriculum units that incorporate the German-language ...

This paper examines the connection between translation and narratives of history, with particular attention to Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" and its Spanish version, "La otra historia de los Estados Unidos". It is argued that translation interacts with history in many ways: translation is fundamental to history and, in addition, the translational ...

This website, maintained by Dr. Denise Meeks, Faculty and Department Chair of Science & Mathematics at Pima Community College in Arizona, provides an English-Spanish dictionary, or glossary, of mathematical terms. It is intended to facilitate the teaching of mathematics to students whose primary language may be Spanish. The Bibliography lists the ...

This paper presents an algorithm for dividing Spanish words into syllables. This algorithm is based on grammatical rules which were translated into a simple algorithm, easy to implement and with low computational cost. Experimental results in an evaluation text corpus show an overall error rate of 1.6%. Most of the error is attributed to words with ...

This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. Use of the internet as a source of health information by Spanish adolescents

Examined the strategies used by native-English-speaking foreign language (FL) learners to read Spanish and English texts in order to investigate differences in FL reading strategies between males and females. Results indicate that students processed the Spanish and English passages using local and global strategies, respectively, and ...

Linguistic mechanisms of 18th century scientific language are studied in the first Natural History text originally drafted in Spanish. William Bowles describes linguistic concerns in science over the definition of terms that refer to realities in the three natural kingdoms. Diatopic and diastratic variants and definition procedures are reported, ...

This booklet is intended for classroom use in first-year high school Spanish to acquaint students with the McDonald's fast food restaurants in Costa Rica. The specific objectives are for the student to: (1) discuss the similarities and differences between the American and Costa Rican McDonald's, (2) set up a miniature McDonald's in the classroom, (3) order a meal in ...

The notion that academic writing is not only a conventional entity but also carries the representation of the writer has been supported by several researchers. Few studies have explored identity representation in language across two written cultures, such as English and Spanish, although Spanish might be a language of interest for non-native speakers due ...

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This quasi-experimental study investigated the effects of an Internet-delivered universally designed depth of vocabulary intervention that targeted both English-speaking and Spanish-English-speaking students. Two hundred forty students, 49% of whom were Spanish-English bilinguals, participated in the 16-week intervention. Intervention students read eight ...

Spanish translations of 19 of the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Public Schools' elementary school science units are presented. The materials were translated for use in a partial immersion program. Unit topics include, among others: magnets, organisms (grade 1), seeds and plants (grade 1), butterflies (grade 2), electricity (grade 3), the food chain (grade 3), current electricity ...

In order to carry out the translation into Spanish of the Manual of diagnostic tests and vaccines for terrestrial animals (mammals, birds and bees) ensuring full scientific and linguistic accuracy, its authors relied on coordination between three types of experts: linguistic, translational and veterinary. In this paper the planning, execution and quality control of such work, ...

This study used medium-term auditory repetition priming to investigate word-recognition processes. Highly fluent Catalan-Spanish bilinguals whose first language was either Catalan or Spanish were tested in a lexical decision task involving Catalan words and nonwords. Spanish-dominant individuals, but not Catalan-dominant individuals, ...

Focusing on reading methods and practices in rural Indian Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century, this article explains why schooling had little impact in terms of literacy in Spanish yet played a successful political and ceremonial role resulting in what I call a ritual literacy. At the time, the emerging educational system did not consider the difficulties of speakers ...

Phonological awareness (PA), phonological memory (PM), and phonological access to lexical storage (also known as RAN), play important roles in acquiring literacy. We examined the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of these phonological processing abilities (PPAs) in 147 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children whose native language was Spanish. Confirmatory factor ...

This website consists of a fact sheet that provides a brief account of the ancient and modern history the Navajo peoples. The text discusses the Navajo transition from nomadic hunting and gathering people in the early Spanish period to the sheep herding, blanket-weaving peoples of the nineteenth century. Links within the text lead to a ...

parallel text is translated text. For example, The Bible exists in French, English, Spanish, Mandarin, etc of the English and French translations of the Canadian Hansard's. The Bible verses come to us from the Blinker that indicates the English word king is translated into French as roi, and that the English word people

A Computational Lexicon of Portuguese for Automatic TextParsing Ehsabete RANCHHOD FLUL/CAUTL-IST Av dictionaries and grammars, we elaborated for Portuguese a set of lexlcal resources, that were implemented in IN, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Within that common framework, important fragments

This collection of papers includes the following: (1) "Insights from Research and Practice in Spanish as a Heritage Language" (M. Cecilia Colombi and Ana Roca); (2) "Toward a Theory of Heritage Language Acquisition: Spanish in the United States" (Andrew Lynch); (3) "Profiles of SNS Students in the Twenty-First Century: Pedagogical Implications of the ...

Male and female homosexuality among the Aztecs during the period immediately prior to the Spanish Conquest has been studied infrequently, even though a Nahuatl document, the Florentine Codex, written shortly after the Spanish Conquest, contains a number of texts on the subject. The Florentine Codex has been translated into English; ...

The autobiography "I, Rigoberta Menchu" is a complicated text--the conditions of its production, the complexity of its subject matter, and the wide range of possible responses among North American readers create challenges for composition students and instructors. A week of taped interviews with Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian whose native language is a dialect of ...

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This collection of conference papers begins with "Introduction" (Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz), then presents five sections. Section 1, "Morphosyntax," includes "Preterit and Imperfect in Spanish: The Early Stages of Development" (Joaquim Camps); "The Relationship between Syntactic and Morphological Abilities in Advanced FL Learners of Spanish" (Joseph ...

This study examines the effects of learners' production (i.e., pushed output) during a multi-stage reconstruction task on learners' noticing of Spanish past tense morphology, aural text comprehension, and development of preterite/imperfect usage in writing. Participants included 47 intermediate L2 Spanish learners in a content-based ...

This bibliography of literature concerned with Puerto Rican children lists both English-language and Spanish-language titles. (The introductory text is in Spanish.) The bibliography has nine major parts, each dealing with one of the following: demography (population trends and migration); physical and mental health and nutrition; the ...

A study of fourth- and fifth-grade students who were taught science in Spanish as a second language is reported. The primary issues studied were: (1) the role of first-language skills in learning science in a second language, and (2) whether hands-on instruction, seen as effective by many for science teaching, is appropriate for second-language-medium instruction. Forty ...

Four booklets present articles on Spanish language and culture aimed at teachers of Spanish in the United States for student use in their classes. Number 17, "Los Jovenes Espanoles" (Spanish Youth), includes articles on Spanish youth sports, music, gangs, thoughts, and t-shirt slogans: (1) "Young ...

Written for teachers to use with migrant children in elementary grades and to highlight the many Americas, this bilingual English/Spanish social studies resource booklet provides historical and cultural background information on the Guyanas--French Guyana, Surinam, and Guyana. A table of contents indicates the language--Spanish or English--in which the ...

Designed for elementary teachers to use with migrant students, this bilingual English/Spanish social studies resource booklet provides an encyclopedia-style overview of Ecuador's history, geography, economy, and culture. Topics include the history of Ecuador's flag and coat of arms, geographic regions, food, Quito (the capital), recent wildlife exploration, Jivaro Indians, and ...

An analysis of a random sample of first- and second-year Spanish textbooks reveals that language textbooks fall short of achieving the affective goals learners and teachers value most, the aspect of culture that focuses on philosophical perspectives involving meaning, value, attitudes, and ideas. Moreover, most textbooks treat culture as products or behavioral practices. Other ...

Using a socio-psycholinguistic perspective of literacy and a social-semiotic analysis of texts, this study investigates how six students made meaning of informational texts. The students came to school from a variety of English and Spanish language backgrounds. The research question being asked was 'How do Latino(a) fourth and fifth ...

The main goal of the present study was to examine the efficacy of a multi-component programme to improve reading fluency and text comprehension in Spanish children with reading disabilities (RD). Special needs teachers were trained in the application of the programme, which included repeated reading plus phonological awareness training and grapheme-phoneme ...

Critics have traditionally looked to the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 as the origin of the doctrine of transubstantiation and the inspiration for Gonzalo de Berceo's "Sacrificio de la misa". Textual evidence proves that this belief far predated 1215 and that Berceo based his text on the Latin tradition of explicating the Mass that had become common in the eleventh and ...

This K-8 online text on aeronautics at age-appropriate reading levels for beginner, intermediate, and advanced. There is also a Spanish version. The topics include fundamentals of space flight, the atmosphere, mythology of flight and the solar system, and more. There is also an Instructor's site with a library of lesson plans that includes experiments and ...

Articles focus on the following: reading comprehension and writing; an approach to argumentative discourse writing; a didactic experiment on the construction of two academic texts; Denzil Romero's work; communication and its implication--a vision from the teaching of the mother tongue; orthography/spelling in the Real Academia Espanola (RAE) (1999); the linguistic component of ...

This paper presents a research report on an investigation into the reading eye movements of a bilingual 10-year, 10-month old girl with language impairment secondary to Downs Syndrome. Eye movement miscue analysis (Paulson, 2000) was employed to evaluate the visual sampling and oral productions of this child as she read from complete texts presented in ...

In this article, the "multiple voices" of 13-15-year-old German and Italian adolescents in internet guest-books are analyzed. The study is based on guest-books texts with a mixture of different registers, languages and dialects. In particular, the German adolescents from the Augsburg region (Bavaria) display a strong regional linguistic identity in combination with a tendency ...

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