We present a study of the mappings from semantic content to a range of syntactic expressions with the aim of isolating the precise locus and role of pragmatic information in the text generation process. From a corpus of English, French, and Portuguese instructions for consumer products, we demonstrate the range of expressions of two semantic relations, Generation and Enablement [Goldman1970] in...

The work described in this report was carried out under contract as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's Cleaner Coal Technology Transfer Programme. The Programme is managed by ETSU. The views and judgements expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of ETSU or the Department of Trade and Industry. SUMMARY ETSU on behalf of the UK Department...

The majority of undergraduate students attending Australian universities now belong to Generation Y, and bring with them a unique outlook shaped by the social, political and cultural context of their childhood years. This change in outlook brings with it a shift in learning preferences, so to ensure a more effective learning environment for Generation Y students, learning and teaching strategie...

maleki mr1 (phd), nasrollahpour shirvani sd1 * (phd candidate), motlagh me2 (md), tofighi s3 (phd), kabir mj4 (phd candidate), jafari n4 (md)     1 department of health services management, faculty of management and medical sciences,   iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran   2 department of pediatrics, jendishapour university of medical sciences, ahvaz, iran   3 department of health...

The educational landscape of the United States has shifted as more low-income, first-generation Latinx students enroll in 4-year universities. Despite this, many underlying structures and practices these institutions still reflect cultural norms culturally dominant groups (e.g., White, upper-to-middle-class, continuing-generation), privileging individualism. This overlooks values students, who ...

with the advent of digitalization, information and communications technology facilities have become an indispensable part of education especially at the universities. this study has been undertaken with dual purposes - to find the existing scenario of information and communications technology facilities and to gauge the perception of the students onthe quality of those facilities - at the unive...

Kentucky has led the nation in adopting Common Core Standards to revitalize education for next-generation learners and schools. To improve preparation of the state’s next-generation teachers, Kentucky has also mandated reform in training student teachers. This article reviews experiences of teacher educators from four Kentucky universities that are collaborating to ensure both quality and consi...

The difficulties and the technical limitations of the Third Generation of Wireless Mobile Communication Systems (3G) as well as the emergence of new mobile broadband technologies on the market, have brought universities and industries to a throughout reflection on the Fourth Generation (4G). In this paper, we first present a vision that outlines the key features and the designing rules of the f...

Previously assumed to be a homogenous and highly skilled group with respect to information and communications technology, the so-called Net Generation has instead been shown to possess a diverse range of technology skills and preferences. To better understand this diversity, we subjected data from 2096 students aged between 17 and 26 from three Australian universities to a cluster analysis. Thr...