This qualitative study analyzes the reasons of college students for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in Costa Rica and the reasons of high school students for learning German as a foreign language (GFL) in the US. It asks to what extent the learners’ reasons align with or deviate from neoliberal discourses that commodify foreign languages. The analysis of 27 interviews in a US high ...

raising all kinds of interesting questions. How did surgeons fight to establish their position, especially since the "German" context is rather different from the English? How did the relations between the various German states affect the pattern of moving around of medical men? Could we, through the biographies of these two men, learn something more about the differences between Berlin and Vie...

this qualitative study analyzes the reasons of college students for learning english as a foreign language (efl) in costa rica and the reasons of high school students for learning german as a foreign language (gfl) in the us. it asks to what extent the learners’ reasons align with or deviate from neoliberal discourses that commodify foreign languages. the analysis of 27 interviews in a us high ...

Degenerative lumbosacral stenosis (DLSS) is a common condition amongst active large breed dogs with a complex aetiopathogenesis. Large-breed dogs, especially the German Shepherd (GSD), Retrievers and active or working dogs (Police, military or sporting dogs), are the most commonly affected by DLSS. Affected dogs are generally mature (mean age 5 1⁄2 years), and are predominantly heavier than 25 ...

BACKGROUND This study estimated the discharge diagnosis due to non-cancer diseases of German seamen employed on German vessels in comparison to the general German male population. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a database, the German health insurance company for seafarers determined the discharge diagnoses from hospital for all German seafarers. In the time period from January 1997 to December 2007...

This paper presents a lightweight object migration protocol that preserves centralized object semantics yet allows for precise prediction of network behavior. The protocol is implemented in Distributed Oz, an extension to the publicly-available DFKI Oz 2.0 system.

in order to assess the influence of breed on the vertebral heart scale (vhs) of dogs, the vhs was measured and compared in left to right (ll) and right to left lateral (rl) views. for all dogs (n=56), the mean vhs on the rl radiographs [9.7 vertebra (v)] was significantly larger than the mean vhs on the ll radiographs (9.6 v) (p=0.047). doberman dogs had higher mean values of the vhs in ll (9.9...

Background: German chamomile (Matricaria recotita) as a medicinal plant has several therapeutic effects. Since the extract of this plant contains a high amount of α-bisabolol (Terpenoid) its antibacterial properties can be considered. Staphylococcus aureus as a pathogenic bacterium is important in clinical situations and food hygiene. So, investigation of effects of antibacterial compounds agai...