To federate collections with varying degrees of metadata richness across continents poses a number of challenging issues such as: how to build a rich unified search interface when there is a lack of controlled vocabulary, and how to federate collections in different languages. The focus of this paper is on the approaches we have taken to address these issues in Arc, an OAI compliant federated d...

1. The shallow ponds of the nature reserve ‘De Maten’ form a metacommunity, in which individual ponds are highly interconnected via a system of overflows and rivulets. This study reports on the relations between cladoceran species richness and (a) connectivity patterns and (b) local environmental variables. 2. No relation was found between local species richness and three connectivity variables...

We introduce a systematic approach to language change quantification by studying unconsciously used language features in time-separated parallel translations. For this purpose, we use objective style markers such as vocabulary richness and lengths of words, word stems and suffixes, and employ statistical methods to measure their changes over time. In this study, we focus on the change in Turkis...

With the rapid development of network communication technology, since beginning 21st century, flipped classroom, as a new hybrid teaching method based on computer has changed traditional and formed process "learning first later". Applied to many fields. In university teaching, classroom is widely used, changing students' passive learning active learning, adjusting time time, emphasizing autonom...

this study has examined the effect of semantic mapping on learning vocabulary across genders. the researchers selected 120 intermediate students after the administration of a standard proficiency test. a vocabulary test was also used to measure the students’ vocabulary knowledge. the experimental group received semantic mapping in the pre-reading stage, butthe control group did not receive this...

Two main features of vocabulary knowledge, namely breadth and depth, have a fundamental role in vocabulary research. This research aimed to study the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension, and to investigate which feature of vocabulary knowledge, breadth or depth, had better impact on identifying reading comprehension performance. Therefore, three language tests we...

an important feature of the holy quran, which has often gone unnoticed, is its rich vocabulary and expressions employed to eloquently express various aspects of daily life. this aspect of the holy quran is often reflected in everyday conversations of people from various walks of life: the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the master and the peasant. this...