Through an examination of three different contexts and aspects of language in development programs - the particular needs of Lao PDR as it seeks greater integration with South East Asia and the global economy; the struggles ...

The Language of New Media Design is an innovative new textbook presenting methods on the design and analysis of a variety of non-linear texts, from websites to CD-Roms. Integrating theory and practice, the book explores a ...

Interpersonal or evaluative meaning has been described in systemic functional linguistics with the help of appraisal theory (Martin & White 2005), which distinguishes between different types of evaluation. One sub-system ...

Although the notion of language ecology has been both popular and productive as a way of understanding language and environment, drawing our attention to the ways in which languages are embedded in social, cultural, ...

Bounding the sidelobe and mainlobe levels of an array with complex weights is attractive in that it allows direct control of the radiation pattern. In this paper we propose an efficient beamforming technique for synthesizing ...

This paper proposes a new technique for visualizing large graphs of several ten thousands of vertices and edges. To achieve a graph abstraction, a hierarchical clustered graph is extracted from a general large graph based ...

We report on the magnetoresistance (MR) and magnetic properties of In1.90−xMn0.1SnxO3 (0<x <0.06) oxide. All samples were found to be ferromagnetic below TC=46 K. Sn doping changed In1.90Mn0.1O3 from an insulator to a ...