Elever syns på nätet : multimodala texter och autentiska mottagare

This study is based on the notion that all students are likely to have a computer of some kind as their primary tool at school within a few years. The overall aim is to contribute to the knowledge of what this development of computer-assisted multimodal text production and communication on and over the net may entail in a school context. The study has an abductive approach drawing on theory from Media and Communication studies and from Pedagogy - particularly on media peda-gogy, multimodality, storytelling, conversation research and deliberative democracy – and is based on a DBR project in three schools. The empirical data are retrieved from four school classes, school years 4 and 5, with good access to computers and digital cameras. The classes have used the class blogs to tell the blog visitors about their school work and Skype to communicate with other classes in Sweden and Tanzania. A variety of research methods was employed: content analysis of texts, observations with field notes and camera documentation, interviews with individual students, group interviews with teachers and students, and a small survey. The study is essentially qualitative, focusing on students’ different perceptions. A small quantitative study was conducted to determine if any factors and variables could be linked to each other and to enable comparisons of the surveyed group with other research results. The results suggest that more computers at school offer more opportunities for real-life assignments and the chance to secure an authentic audience to the students’ production; primarily the students’ parents and relatives, students in the same class and at other schools. A theoretical analysis model to determine the degree of reality and authenticity in various school assignments was developed. The results also indicate that having access to cameras for documenting various events in the classes and to an authentic audience can create new opportunities for storytelling that have not been practiced previously at school. The documentary photo invites a viewer into the present tense of the image and the location where the picture was taken, whoever took the picture. It is used by the students and here too, a model has been developed to describe this relationship. The study also focuses on the freedom of expression and democracy. One of the more unexpected findings is that the students in the study did not see that they can influence other people’s perceptions or change various power structures through communication on the web, neither in nor outside of school.

Argument structures in Chinese university students’ argumentative writing: a contrastive study

Situated within a Systemic Functional Linguistics genre paradigm, this study adopted a function-based linguistic approach to examine the argument structures in English writing produced by Chinese university students of English as foreign language (EFL). Their English writing was contrasted with three other sets of argumentative essays in order to explore differences and similarities in the use of argument structures. The four sets of essays were produced by three groups of university students: native English- and Chinese-speaking university students and Chinese university EFL students. Participants’ interviews and questionnaire responses were also collected. The study found that most native English-speaking participants used an analytical arguing strategy, while most Chinese-speaking university participants preferred a hortatory argument structure both in their English and Chinese writing. It was also found that Chinese participants’ English writing was influenced by both English and Chinese.

A parentetização: estratégia de construção textual-interativa do chat educacional

Este artigo descreve, sob a Perspectiva Textual-Interativa, tal como definida por Jubran (2006a), a parentetização (JUBRAN, 1996, 2006b) em uma conversação síncrona mediada por computador, voltada para a esfera educacional, escrita em espanhol por participantes brasileiros - o chat educacional. Observamos que a parentetização constitui-se como uma das regularidades dos processos de elaboração textual. Trata-se, portanto, de uma estratégia de construção textual do chat educacional bastante produtiva.

O riso e a ironia: a leitura da história em O Nome da Rosa

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estágio supervisionado de Ciências Biológicas: aproximações entre o legal e o real

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Interpretazione per i media: il caso particolare delle interviste sul podio della Formula 1

This dissertation analyses the live simultaneous interpretation from English into Italian of six 2013 Formula 1 World Championship podium interviews and focuses on four main aspects: how the interpreter handled the décalage at the end of the interview and during the turn-taking; if he used any marker to indicate that he was starting to translate a new turn of the source text; what he did when overlapped speech in the source texts occurred; what happened when the Italian commentators talked during the interpreter’s translation. In the first chapter a description mainly of what a Formula 1 podium interview is and what an interpreter translates during the Formula 1 weekends is present. In the second chapter a literature review on media interpreting, with particular attention put on Straniero Sergio’s paper on translating Formula 1 press-conferences (2003), and turn-taking is provided. In the third chapter the methodology used to obtain and process the video and audio files of source and target texts and to transcribe them is described. We concentrated primarily on Thibault’s multimodal text transcription techniques (2000) and on how they were used and adapted to fit the purposes of this dissertation. In the fourth chapter the results obtained through the analysis of the source and target texts are shown and described, focusing only on the objectives of the dissertation, without aiming to provide a qualitative evaluation of the interpretations. In the fifth and last chapter the conclusions and some final remarks are made, based on the results obtained during the analysis and the hope for a more in depth knowledge of Italian Formula 1 interpreter’s working conditions.

DIVULGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA NAS REVISTAS CIÊNCIA HOJE, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN BRASIL E SUPERINTERESSANTE: ESTUDO COMPARATIVO

Estudo comparativo que analisa a divulgação científica (DC) praticada pelas revistas Ciência Hoje (CH), Scientific American Brasil (SAB) e Superinteressante (SI), apontando convergências e divergências entre as três publicações. Objetiva-se analisar como as formas de construção textual e o uso de ilustrações nas matérias e nos artigos de capa das revistas CH, SAB e SI podem contribuir ou interferir de maneira efetiva na DC que praticam. Para tanto, são delineados cinco pressupostos básicos: (1) as publicações de análise priorizam nas capas temas pertencentes às Ciências Básicas (CB) em detrimento das Ciências Humanas e Sociais (CHS); (2) no campo amplo das CB há preferência, nas capas das revistas, por temas relacionados à saúde; (3) as temáticas abordadas nas capas das revistas CH, SAB e SI não são, em geral, coincidentes entre si, pois não seguem uma lógica de matérias quentes ; (4) o uso freqüente de elementos explicativos, termos figurados, fontes de informação diversificadas e citações diretas nas construções textuais das matérias e dos artigos de capa das publicações, bem como o uso de ilustrações devidamente contextualizadas, contribuem para tornar os textos mais inteligíveis; (5) as revistas CH, SAB e SI, embora consideradas revistas de DC, apresentam níveis diferenciados de divulgação, em função do perfil de seus leitores. Em consonância com esses pressupostos, são objetivos específicos: a) identificar, dentro das duas amplas categorias (CB e CHS), os temas mais explorados, reunindo-os em subcategorias para identificar mais afinidade / proximidade entre eles; b) examinar, através das formas de construção textual e do uso das ilustrações nas matérias e nos artigos de capa, os critérios utilizados pelas publicações para divulgar ciência e tecnologia (C&T). Para responder os parâmetros estabelecidos nos objetivos apresentados, a metodologia inclui questionário aplicado aos editores das publicações investigadas e análise de conteúdo (AC) da amostra selecionada, que engloba 19 matérias / artigos de capa das revistas CH, SAB e SI, escolhidos entre julho de 2009 e junho de 2010. Os dados coletados e devidamente discutidos permitem confirmar os pressupostos enunciados, vez que, em termos gerais, é evidente que a DC praticada pelas três revistas apresenta mais divergências do que convergências. Isto possibilita estabelecer níveis distintos de divulgação, manifestos na forma como constroem os textos e como utilizam as ilustrações, com maior dificuldade em SAB e CH e com teor mais simplificado em SI.

Processos criativos com alunos-atores idosos: caminhos de uma dramaturgia de pertencimento

The present work is to present an experience artistic and pedagogical means of a laboratory-developed with senescent students from their memory files. Unlike other works developed with students of the third age, we make use of the archives of memory, where the drama takes from improvisations developed memories, in other words, the text is built not just recollected by students. Our work, however, is built by a look from the outside. The affective memories narrated by students serve as an engine for text construction and spectacle titled Vamos Falar de Amor. In this experiment the teacher-director also becomes an dramaturgista, and uses her imagination, that also comes filled with her own memories, in order to complete the gaps of the narrative, in a hybrid process in which the collective memory interlace the individual memory, transforming epic into dramatic. Here the route designed to get to the construction of the text and left the text for the second scripture, the spectacle. We want to show that old age is comprised of various hues, and that this phase of human development brings aspects that differ from old to old, and that education and theater can be a resumption of the social role of the elderly in contemporary surroundings. Therefore, the dramaturgy of memory creates the dramaturgy of belonging, facilitating in many aspects the Scenic Play with the elderly ones.

Development of a tool for the construction of "ground truth" for complex color images with text

Aquesta memoria resumeix el treball de final de carrera d’Enginyeria Superior d’Informàtica. Explicarà les principals raons que han motivat el projecte així com exemples que il·lustren l’aplicació resultant. En aquest cas el software intentarà resoldre la actual necessitat que hi ha de tenir dades de Ground Truth per als algoritmes de segmentació de text per imatges de color complexes. Tots els procesos seran explicats en els diferents capítols partint de la definició del problema, la planificació, els requeriments i el disseny fins a completar la il·lustració dels resultats del programa i les dades de Ground Truth resultants.

Construction of an index of information from clinical practice in Radiology and Imaging Diagnosis based on text mining and thesaurus

Objective To construct a Portuguese language index of information on the practice of diagnostic radiology in order to improve the standardization of the medical language and terminology. Materials and Methods A total of 61,461 definitive reports were collected from the database of the Radiology Information System at Hospital das Clínicas – Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (RIS/HCFMRP) as follows: 30,000 chest x-ray reports; 27,000 mammography reports; and 4,461 thyroid ultrasonography reports. The text mining technique was applied for the selection of terms, and the ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 standard was utilized to construct the index based on a thesaurus structure. The system was created in *html. Results The text mining resulted in a set of 358,236 (n = 100%) words. Out of this total, 76,347 (n = 21%) terms were selected to form the index. Such terms refer to anatomical pathology description, imaging techniques, equipment, type of study and some other composite terms. The index system was developed with 78,538 *html web pages. Conclusion The utilization of text mining on a radiological reports database has allowed the construction of a lexical system in Portuguese language consistent with the clinical practice in Radiology.

Preimplantation development regulatory pathway construction through a text-mining approach

Background: The integration of sequencing and gene interaction data and subsequent generation of pathways and networks contained in databases such as KEGG Pathway is essential for the comprehension of complex biological processes. We noticed the absence of a chart or pathway describing the well-studied preimplantation development stages; furthermore, not all genes involved in the process have entries in KEGG Orthology, important information for knowledge application with relation to other organisms. Results: In this work we sought to develop the regulatory pathway for the preimplantation development stage using text-mining tools such as Medline Ranker and PESCADOR to reveal biointeractions among the genes involved in this process. The genes present in the resulting pathway were also used as seeds for software developed by our group called SeedServer to create clusters of homologous genes. These homologues allowed the determination of the last common ancestor for each gene and revealed that the preimplantation development pathway consists of a conserved ancient core of genes with the addition of modern elements. Conclusions: The generation of regulatory pathways through text-mining tools allows the integration of data generated by several studies for a more complete visualization of complex biological processes. Using the genes in this pathway as “seeds” for the generation of clusters of homologues, the pathway can be visualized for other organisms. The clustering of homologous genes together with determination of the ancestry leads to a better understanding of the evolution of such process.

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The works of P. Virgilius Maro, ... with the original text reduced to the natural order of construction; and an interlinear translation, as nearly literal as the idiomatic difference of the Latin and English languages will allow. Adapted to the system of classical instruction. combining the methods of Ascham, Milton, and Locke.

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Practical letter writing. A text-book giving complete information regarding the construction, forms, punctuation,

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