This contribution challenges the often misleading perception that there is only one way of doing analytical chemistry, i.e., with complicated and costly professional instrumentation. And if a school or university does not possess such instrumentation, or has no access to it, there is no other way to proceed. Here we describe a low-cost spectrometer with a microreaction chamber and a tri-colour ...

Abstract In the twenty-first century, multicultural encounters have become an experience that is familiar even to youngest. superdiverse trilingual Luxembourg, over 50% of population are foreigners, and many them do not speak titular language country. Multicultural classrooms studied very closely, but Russian-speaking students, a new exponentially growing addition cultural mix, been yet in thei...

Data-driven approaches to natural language processing have been shown to be greatly effective, and the case of bilingual lexicon extraction is no exception. While training data is readily available for many language pairs, many existing approaches fail for languages for which there simply does not exist parallel data. While there have been many studies on bilingual lexicon extraction, there has...

Despite anecdotal data on lexical interference among the languages of multilingual speakers, little research evidence about the lexical connections among multilinguals' languages exists to date. In the present paper, two experiments with a multilingual speaker who had suffered aphasia are reported. The first experiment provides data about inter-language activation during natural conversations; ...

How infants learn new words is a fundamental puzzle in language acquisition. To guide their word learning, infants exploit systematic word-learning heuristics that allow them to link new words to likely referents. By 17 months, infants show a tendency to associate a novel noun with a novel object rather than a familiar one, a heuristic known as disambiguation. Yet, the developmental origins of ...

Since its publication in 2001, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has gained a leading role as an instrument of reference for language teaching and certification. Nonetheless, there is a growing concern about CEFR levels being insufficiently illustrated in terms of authentic learner data. Such concern grows even stronger when considering languages other than English...

BACKGROUND Terminology and Lexicography have been especially addressed to the Allied Health Sciences regarding discussion of case reports or concerning publication of scientific articles. The knowledge of Human Anatomy enables the understanding of medical terms and the refinement of Medical Terminology makes possible a better anatomicomedical communication in a highly technical level. Most of t...