This book contains a study of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, as well as an overview of the historical development of the Mongolic languages. The description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, defined as the variety of Halh Mongolian spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia, is based on original data collected by the authors from Ulaan...

This work reports on a novel use of Information and Communication Technologies for composing an electronic book on the measurement field. The e-book “Laboratórios de Instrumentação para Medição/Laboratories of Instrumentation for Measurement” is written in Portuguese and in English. Dealing with concepts, methods, procedures and hands-on activity it combines sketches, figures, animations, video...

That is the way Miriam Butt begins her book. Apparently, she felt that the quote fits her introduction to case theory within grammatical traditions (Latin grammar is one) and their relationship to various notions of case within modern theoretical linguistics. In her introduction to the book, Butt states “...several issues must be dealt with. One is the issue of what “case” really means and what...

This paper describes a series of three evaluations of electronic textbooks on the Web, which focused on assessing how appearance and design can affect users’ sense of engagement and directness with the material. The EBONI Project’s methodology for evaluating electronic textbooks is outlined and each experiment is described, together with an analysis of results. Finally, some recommendations for...

This paper summarizes our efforts to develop a new computer based learning environment to teach adaptive systems in the EE undergraduate curriculum. The learning environment is based upon an electronic book containing a hypertext document linked with a software simulator which runs interactive examples on-line, and is fully controlled by the student.

Morphological productivity is one of the most contested areas in the study of word formation. In this research volume Bauer reviews the significant contributions of scholars to the subject over the past 20–30 years. (As a caveat, amongst the 300 or so references to those who have made a contribution only one was to an SIL scholar, and that was Pike 1967). His chapters range over all the key are...

The World Wide Web (WWW) is an increasingly important source of educational material. However, only scant research has been directed towards making this educational information accessible to the deaf. Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) is an area of research that aims to enhance the functionality of hypermedia systems, such as the WWW, by enabling users to personalise their interaction with the digital c...

This paper considers the EBONI (Electronic Books ON-screen Interface) Project’s research into the importance of the user when designing electronic textbooks [1]. The results of the Visual Book (Landoni, 1997) and the WEB Book (Wilson, 1999) experiments, which explored design aspects of ebooks and provide a backdrop to EBONI’s research, are presented. EBONI’s methodology and evaluations, involvi...

Many markets, including the travel, music, and book markets, are undergoing dramatic changes due do the development of electronic commerce. Reseller margins often decrease significantly and sometimes even entire links in the supply chain are becoming completely superfluous. Even though power markets have been deregulated already for some years in many countries, electronic commerce has not yet ...