The present study focuses on the contraction of German compounds with an identical component in different text genres. Two approaches to process compound are discussed: first which tends treat it as a syntactic phenomenon, and second understand morphological phenomenon. Examples from contemporary fiction, press legislation classified order illustrate ambivalence between phrase formation word fo...

Automated and machine translation tools have become integral elements of the process, but their place in models is still not defined. On one hand, trend towards automating practices reducing burden on human translators, freeing them from repetitive, tedious low-tech tasks up for more complex creative tasks, other it also invading into territory professional translators at conversion level. This...

On the basis of a recognition semiotic theories on character, this paper aims to identify some cornerstones useful for developing theory transmedia characters. Firstly, we will reconstruct troubled fortune notion character in French structural semiotics which reduced it combinatorial conception, according identity relies first all fact being lexical unit that can be analyzed and decomposed, lik...

This research is about a small village school participating in an inter-institutional electronic network of schools using information and communication technologies in the context of the Kilpisjärvi project 1994 to 1997. The project concerned the establishment of the lower secondary school in the Kilpisjärvi village. The school was linked with a network which also included the Teacher Training ...

In an environment of escalating healthcare costs, chronic disease management is particularly challenging, since, by definition such diseases have no foreseeable cure and if poorly managed typically lead to further, complicated secondary health issues, which ultimately only serve to exacerbate cost. Diabetes is one of the leading chronic diseases and its prevalence continues to rise exponentiall...

To address the current limitation of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) in tackling urban–rural sustainability issues, this study proposes a Cooperative Human-Agent Service System (CHASS) by leveraging decentralized communication and coordination capability multi-agent system. The unique feature CHASS is collaboration between humans agents for real-world deployment. From perspective Service-Domin...

‘Take, for instance, an overhead projector’ as Bruno Latour wrote in a 1994 article (36). And why not? Introduced as a non-human actant by John Law in 1992 (3), Latour further employs this standardised piece of presentation equipment as an example of a generic black-box technology whose operation is hidden from the user. Most likely drawing on his own immediate experience as a lecturer, Latour ...

Résumé Le présent travail de recherche retrace la scène mythique du Coup l’éventail qui opposa le Dey d’Alger Hussein Pacha et Consul français Pierre Deval en 1827. Nous examinons dans quelle mesure l’interprétation dudit incident pourrait entraver recours à sémiotique les études historiographiques reposant sur théories sémiotiques Greimas, Fontanille Zilberberg. L’analyse des iconographies rep...

Currently, expert-analytical activity is being developed on digital network platforms as sociotechnical systems that organize algorithmized relationships between actors and actant in the field of assessing a problem situation making decisions to resolve it. The lag development expert analytical activities public administration system region leads slowdown processes their socio-economic developm...

On the basis of a recognition semiotic theories on character, this paper aims to identify some cornerstones useful for developing theory transmedia characters. Firstly, we will reconstruct troubled fortune notion character in French structural semiotics which reduced it combinatorial conception, according identity relies first all fact being lexical unit that can be analyzed and decomposed, lik...