Introduction (English version)

EN 13783 - English version

This European Standard specifies a microbiological screening method for the detection of irradiation treatment of herbs and spices, using the combined direct epifluorescent filter technique (DEFT) and aerobic plate count (APC). The DEFT/APC technique is not radiation specific, therefore, it is recommended to confirm positive results using a standardised method (e.g. EN 1788, prEN 13751) to spec...

Chapter 1 English Version

Recent years have seen object-oriented, component-based, agent-oriented and service-oriented paradigms coexist and develop in parallel. This has led to the emergence of similar or specialist concepts that are often juxtaposed with misinterpretations of vocabulary. These misinterpretations are exacerbated by the existence of hybrid approaches that borrow elements from the four paradigms. Moreove...

EN 1788 - English version

Silicate minerals are therefore isolated from the foodstuffs, mostly by a density separation step. In order not to obscure the TL, the isolated silicate minerals should be as free of organic constituents as possible. A first glow of the separated mineral extracts is recorded (Glow 1). Since various amounts and/or types of minerals (quartz, feldspar etc.) exhibit very variable integrated TL inte...

English Corpus Linguistics An Introduction

Introduction to the English Edition

In his letter to the prospective contributors to the Cambridge Modern History, one of the greatest collaborative works of history published in the twentieth century, British historian Lord Acton triumphantly declared that “the long conspiracy against the knowledge of truth has been practically abandoned, and competing scholars all over the civilized world are taking advantage of the change.” Ci...