The largest and most important urban centres in Germany, Berlin the Ruhr metropolitan area, share a very similar socio-historical linguistic past. vernaculars spoken these regions are both High German varieties that have developed on Low substratum. Thus, emerged from language-shift situation preserved number of features. Moreover, lost prestige during process massive immigration period industr...

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Luara Ferreira dos Santos, Rehabilitation Robotics Group (TU Berlin/ Fraunhofer IPK), Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Industrial Automation Technology, Germany Thomas Schüler, SALT AND PEPPER, Software Solution Center & University of Osnabrück, Germany Simon Hoermann, Department of Medicine (DSM) & Department of Information Science, University of Otago, New Zealand Henning Schmidt,...

Department of Psychology and Ergonomics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Berlin, Germany, Center for Advanced Neurological Engineering, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, 3 School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, 4 Team PhyPA, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Berlin, Germany, 5 School of Biomedical ...

Elsorra E. Idris1, 2, H. Bochow2, H. Ross3, R. Borriss1 1 Humboldt University, Berlin, Institute of Biology, Dept. of Bacterial Genetics, Chausseestr. 117, D-10115 Berlin, Germany 2 Humboldt University, Berlin, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Sect. of Phytomedicine, Lentzeallee 55/57, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany 3 Humboldt University, Berlin, Ins...

The present research addressed the prosodic realization of global and local text structure and content in the spoken discourse data produced by Persian EFL learners. Two newspaper articles were analyzed using Rhetorical Structure Theory. Based on these analyses, the global structure in terms of hierarchical level, the local structure in terms of the relative importance of text segments and the ...

341. Heterogeneous regional distribution of nosocomial infections due to ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Germany: Data from the German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (KISS) Rasmus Leistner, MD; Christin Schröder; Christine Geffers, MD; AnnChristin Breier, MD; Petra Gastmeier, MD; Michael Behnke, PhD; Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, ...