Theories of the sign T his consideration begins in the theories of signification proposed in Structuralism, particularly as elucidated by Ferdinand de Saussure and interpreted by Roland Barthes (drawing on Hjelmslev and others). It will further be informed by the general theory of “autopoiesis” as articulated byMaturana and Varela (1987) and by other recent studies of language and signification...

There are important gaps in the health status of citizens across Europe, as measured by life expectancy, mortality or morbidity data (Report for the European Commission on the health status of the European Union, 2003). Among the main determinants of the major causes of mortality and morbidity, stated in this report, stands recurrently access to quality healthcare. There is a fundamental need t...

The International Forum on Translation Technology will be held on the theme of cooperative work between humans and the computer. As an example of the cooperative work, the present situation and prospects for the machine translation value-added network (MT-VAN) service will be described below. In the MT-VAN, users, the machine translation systems and the translators are satisfactory linked by th...

This article is devoted to the question of how a native speaker exercises his authority over non-native speaker. The research was carried out within framework theory linguistic imperialism. To reveal these relations, concept right correction introduced. describe figures and speaker, we turn researchers imperialism, in particular R. Phillipson, Yu. Tsuda, etc. It said that standard view dominanc...

Introduction. Accreditation has a long antecedence in western countries educational systems and its history of implementation is more than a century in a country such as United States of America. In European countries, also different activities have been implied throughout the accreditation and its implementation has become an essential. Now, in our country the experts also think of the accredi...

The National Commission for Assessment, Assurance and Accreditation (NCAAA) is the Quality Assessment arm of the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE). In this paper we describe a locally-developed Webbased Outcome-Directed "Program-Level" accreditation system that complies and provides guidance with the NCAAA program accreditation requirements. It has dual purpose: first to automate the pr...