The relationship between language and culture has become a rich source of inquiry in the context of English language teaching. Learning materials can depict cultural content in different cultural senses, namely aesthetic, sociological, semantic, and pragmatic. The present study aimed to investigate the way cultural aspects are represented in the reading and dialog sections of global (American E...

This paper introduces the Focused Stochastic Diffusion Network as a novel method of self-localisation for an autonomous wheelchair in a busy, complex environment. The space of possible positions is explored in parallel by a set of cells searching in a competitive co-operative manner for the most likely position of the wheelchair in its environment. Trials of the SENARIO autonomous wheelchair pr...

During the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-83) a most fierce political repression developed which led to one of the blackest periods of the history of our nation and left thousands of dead, disappeared and exiled. Physical and psychiatric torture was systematically implemented and applied on every prisoner. As a consequence of this repression, characterised as terrorism of the sta...

" Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret AUTUMN, 1941. For the purpose of this address the term medicine is used in t e sense given to it by the distinguished American doctor, Le Koy Crummer, when he said that medicine meant to him not the discoveries of the great men, but the land of medical attention available to the common man down the centuries.1 , and that I may appear to be stra...

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