This research challenges prevailing popular ideas about the socalled "informal sector" and questions the very significance of the formal/informal classification. It also suggests an alternative analytical framework which stresses the need to understand the connections between a broad economic and political context and a set of micro socioeconomic arrangements involved in the work arena. In the ...

In 1992 in a historic move, the Church of England voted to allow women’s ordination to priesthood and in 1994 the first women priests started to be ordained. Despite much research interest, the experiences of priests who are mothers to dependent children have been minimally investigated. Based on in-depth interviews with seventeen mothers ordained in the Church, this paper will focus on how the...

pieces of literature. A pattern is a configuration or solution to a problem in the design and/or implementation of software that is repeatedly found, though almost always in slightly different form depending on the circumstances. A pattern then is not a programming language construct or an idiom, though in some cases it might be possible to generalize a pattern that way. Many software systems a...

The current study builds upon a previous study, which examined the degree to which the lexical properties of students’ essays could predict their vocabulary scores. We expand on this previous research by incorporating new natural language processing indices related to both the surfaceand discourse-levels of students’ essays. Additionally, we investigate the degree to which these NLP indices can...

NETSPEAK is a Web service which helps writers in finding alternative expressions for what they want to say.1 It provides a large index of writing samples in the form of ngrams, n ≤ 5, along with an efficient means to retrieve them by the use of wildcard queries. When in doubt about a phrasing, a user can get additional evidence by retrieving samples that match a given context. The figure below ...

This short paper relates the main features of LELIE, phase 1, which detects errors made by technical writers when producing procedures or requirements. This results from ergonomic observations of technical writers in various companies.