A RECAPTURE FROM A RIVER PIRATE

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Some Simple Pirate Strategies

Illegal copies of digital objects (images, texts, movies, music etc.) are easy to make. With the use of Internet more and more products are distributed in its digital form. To prevent illegal redistribution we propose to uniquely mark each distributed copy with a digital fingerprint. This fingerprint has to be part of the information to prevent it from being easily removed. This method is discu...

Growth in Nephrops norvegicus from a tag-recapture experiment

Nephrops norvegicus is a commercially valuable fishery in the EU but management of stocks is challenging due to difficulties in aging individuals and calculating growth and biomass production. Growth of N. norvegicus was estimated by releasing 1177 tagged individuals in western Ireland in Summer 2013 and recapturing these in 2014 (n = 207, an average of 344 days later) and 2015 (n = 38, 654-665...

Beyond the Boundaries of Open, Closed and Pirate Archives: Lessons from a Hybrid Approach

The creation of open archives i.e. archives where access is regulated by open licensing models (content, source, data), should be seen as part of a broader socio-economic phenomenon that finds legal expression in specific organizational and technical formats.This paper examines the origins and main characteristics of the open archives phenomenon. We investigate the extent to which different mod...

A Shanghai "pirate": the 13th edition of William Osler's textbook.