This paper studied the current situation of the talent resource in Athletic Gymnastics in Shaanxi Province of PRC with reference to data and by methods of investigation & visit, expert interview and mathematical statistics, etc. The research revealed that there is shortage of high-level athletes, coaches and referees in the field of gymnastics in Shaanxi Province with its level lower than the n...

Urbanization is an important process in the development of human society. The more developed countries have already achieved a high level of urbanization and have entered a stage of mature urbanization. The less developed countries are just accelerating their pace of urbanization and are in a stage of expanding urbanization. The number of urban population in the poor and less developed countrie...

Collaborative environments development has significantly increased in the last years, as well as the complexity of such systems and the search for better quality. On the collaborative environment development, the definition of precise rules set is important to allow correct interactions among the actors. The goal of this work is to present Forum, a model and a language to specify rules for coll...

Data from ten Swedish-Arabic preschool children with language impairment and ten Swedish-Arabic children with normal language development matched for age and exposure to Swedish were analyzed. Specific tasks for both Swedish and Arabic were designed. By using the hierarchy predicted by processability theory as a yardstick, grammatical development was measured in the two languages of the childre...

This paper presents the challenges involved in designing a full set of online tutorial materials for a beginners’ Spanish course for distance language learners utilising an online audiographic conferencing VLE for synchronous oral interaction. Although much has been written about task design and task-based learning and teaching (TBLT) in language learning, the shift to an audiographic Computer ...

The worldwide boom in the use of information technology has spurred software development efforts around the globe. Our ongoing research program focuses on three aspects of the global development of software: (1) collection of quantitative data regarding current practice and performance in a variety of countries; (2) determination of the adoption of competing models of software development acros...

Necessity of different competencies with high level of knowledge makes it inevitable that software development is a team work. With the todays technology, teams can communicate both synchronously and asynchronously using different online collaboration tools throughout the world. Researches indicate that there are many factors that affect the team success and in this paper, effect of individual ...

ING Group is a global financial services institution offering banking, insurance and asset management to 60 million private, corporate and institutional clients world-wide. ING has a market capitalisation of 23 billion euros and total assets of over 700 billion euros. Similar to other global financial institutions ING depends on information technology for delivering its services. Obviously, all...

The present paper generally reviews the history of second language (L2) researchers’ efforts in an attempt to find such an index and the possible reasons for the difficulties in establishing the developmental index from both the theoretical and the empirical viewpoints. Two contradictory views—interlanguage theory and emergentism—can finally reconciled so as to have a comprehensive view of seco...

The application of the general theory of high-level replacement systems has proven to be most rewarding in many diierent areas, especially in Petri nets EGPP99]. In this paper the extension of high-level replacement systems to reenement morphisms Pad99] is applied to place/transition nets. The combination of morphisms, that preserve safety properties, with transformations of place/transition ne...