The great variety of traceability systems in the German food industry makes it difficult to describe them coherently and to distinguish them clearly one from another. Therefore a classification system or typology is needed to facilitate their description and analysis. This study suggests an approach to extract distinguishing aspects from a detailed description of traceability systems for pork. ...

This paper explores online learning communities, why they might be important, and how tutors might support their development. A simple typology is presented, which identifies online students’ expressed needs for tutor support and intervention, within a VLE-based online programme. The potential usefulness of this typology in assisting tutors to facilitate the development of an online learning co...

This paper investigates the bodily signals of vagueness. After presenting the conceptual notion of vagueness by contrasting with uncertainty, approximation, confusion and ambiguity, the notion of “metadiscursive vagueness signal” is presented, a case of metadiscursive signals that convey “I am being vague”. Then a qualitative analysis of bodily signals of vagueness is presented, while singling ...

This paper introduces a typology of speeches within board game players in order to examine their communication process from the view point of pedagogical effectiveness using an environmental education game "KEEP COOL". We already have analyzed the speeches issued by players applying KJ method as basic analysis. To generalize the classification of speeches, we introduce new typology mainly focus...

This article attempts to develop a general typology of transcultural wars in as broad and theoretical way as possible. My examples will be drawn primarily from early medieval European warfare (up to c. 1200, and sometimes from beyond Europe in this chronological era), but as the references to other articles in this collection will try to show, I aim at a general typology that transcends this ch...

This paper investigates the issue of intermediation and the role of intermediaries in the innovation process. The aim of this paper is three-fold. Firstly, to review and synthesis the literature in this field; from this to develop a typology and framework of the different roles and functions of the intermediation process within innovation; lastly to try and operationalise the typology within th...

Background Research on health worker migration in the Irish context has previously sought to categorize migrant health workers by country or region of training (e.g. non-EU nurses or doctors), by migration channel or mechanism (e.g. actively recruited nurses). This paper applies a recently developed typology of health worker migration [1], to the experiences of non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland...

This article presents an overview of the goals and methods of semantic typology, the study of the distribution of semantic categories across languages. Results from this field inform theoretical accounts of syntax-semantics interface phenomena, as well as the nature of the relationship between language and cognition. This article discusses a variety of quantitative methods that represent recent...